Africa

Kenya could forfeit three of its 20 oil blocks in the Indian Ocean to Somalia if it loses a maritime territorial dispute brought against it. Tomorrow, Kenya begins an epic fight at the international justice city of The Hague, Netherlands, to fight claims of grabbing...

The United Nations, the African Union, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), the European Union (EU), Ethiopia, Italy, Sweden, the United Kingdom and the United States of America welcome the progress made in clarifying the electoral model, takes note of the details set out...

The Horn of Africa is known as one of the hostile geographic spaces in the continent regarding interstate conflicts. Some of Africa’s longest civil wars occur in this region: the Ethio-Eritrea border conflict, the civil war in Sudan, and the Somali conflict. However, there is...

HORNDIPLOMAT-The Somaliland  Presidential Released Press Statement that  To Condemned The IGAD Leaders Meeting in Mogadishu:HORNDIPLOMAT Press Statement:-President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo strongly condemned a communiqué released by IGAD leaders in Mogadishu that pertains to the unity of Somalia during a consultation meeting with the National Recognition Committee...

Khadar Abdi Asan, a freelancer who works for Somali Channel TV, was beaten by a group of unidentified men who told him to cease his investigative reporting about Muse Bihi Abdi, the head of the ruling Kulmiye party and a candidate in next year’s...

At least four Somali National Army (SNA) soldiers were killed and another was injured in heavy fighting in which Al-Shabaab militant group captured El-Wak town in Gedo region in southern Somalia, officials said Saturday. SNA spokesman in Gedo region, Col. Warfa Sheikh Aden said the...

By DOMINIC WABALA @wabaladominic Saturday, September 17, 2016 KDF officers in Amisom supported by the Somalia National Army killed 33 al Shabaab fighters in two different operations in Southern Somalia on Wednesday. In the first incident during an operation in Jubaland’s Gobweyn area, 25 fighters from the...

By:Friederike Müller-Jung / abj For years, Kenya and Somalia have argued over where their maritime boundary in the Indian Ocean runs. The International Court of Justice in The Hague could now decide who owns the sea, a decision that will only suit one. A narrow triangle...

By Bridget Galton The extraordinary story of a Somali migrant who risked death to return as Mayor of war-torn Mogadishu is compellingly told in a book by BBC correspondent Andrew Harding. The Mayor of Mogadishu (Hurst, £20) follows the redemptive arc of a man – dubbed...

Bags of wheat speed down multiple conveyor belts to be heaved onto trucks lined up during the middle of a blistering June afternoon beside the busy docks of Djibouti Port. Once loaded, trucks set off westward toward Ethiopia carrying food aid to help with...