Africa

Police have detained a Mombasa-bound ship that sailed from the Somalia port from Kismayu. They also detained Kenyan and Tanzanian crew of the Kenyan-registered vessel that had sailed into Kilifi's port. Police say the Tanzanians are deemed to have entered Kenya illegally aboard the...

Mogadishu, 30 October 2016 — The United Nations, African Union, European Union, Inter-Governmental Authority on Development, Ethiopia, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States are deeply concerned over continuing allegations of corruption in Somalia’s electoral process and reports of recurring intimidation of...

Ibrahim Ghandour discusses Darfur, the allegations of ongoing government violence and Bashir's indictment by the ICC. The war in Darfur is the conflict the world seems to have forgotten, but it hasn't gone away. And neither has the leader of Sudan, President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, the man the International Criminal...

The Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn has conferred today with a delegation led by a Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Mohamoud Silanyo on issues of bilateral relations and common interests. The two leaders exchanged views on fostering their existing cooperation in trade, investment and economic development. They...

WASHINGTON —  Somali regional authorities in Puntland are vowing to retake a town captured by pro-Islamic State militants this week. The president of the region, Dr. Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, said his administration would push back against the militants, who faced little opposition when they took over...

Islamist groups have been responsible for murdering a large number of journalists over the past decade without their killers being brought to justice. Those murders feature prominently in the latest edition of the global impunity index compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). It...

Schoolchildren in Kenya will be barred from entering examination rooms with clipboards and geometry set boxes in a bid to curb cheating, the education ministry has said. The directive also bans the use of mobile phones near examination centres. Cheating cases in secondary schools rose by...

HORNDIPLOMAT-EUCAP Nestor organized a Maritime Legislation Workshop in Hargeisa, Somaliland in partnership with the Attorney General’s Office from October 24th to 26th. Thirty-one participants – three of them women- came from the Prosecution Office, the Somaliland Coast Guard and Immigration Department. The Acting Head of the...

On October 26th and 27th The Somalia's President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Somali leaders and representatives from the International community supporting Somalia, paid tribute to the Head of EU Delegation to Somalia, Ambassador Michele Cervone d’Urso, who is ending his tour of duty. On 27th October,...

The African Development Bank Group (AfDB) has approved a framework document for the establishment of the AfDB Multi-Partner Somalia Infrastructure Fund. The political and economic situation in Somalia in the last two decades has severely affected all sectors in the country, including infrastructure. The devastating...