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Every day, Kenyan and Ethiopian farmers pick a huge amount of fresh khat leaves — the herbal stimulant chewed to achieve a high similar to the effects of amphetamines — and sell it to traders who package it up and send it off to...

Somaliland bids for independence         SOURCE:CNN reports Somaliland bids for independence

Uganda's President pays visit to Ugandan troops based in Mogadishu, commends them for their diligence: President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda has commended Ugandan troops serving under AMISOM for the critical role the are playing in restoring peace in Somalia. President Museveni addressed the troops after...

  Somalia on Tuesday agreed to lift a week-old ban on imports of Kenyan khat after a storm of controversy from angry growers of the leafy narcotic in neighbouring Kenya. The decision was made on the margins of a historic one-day summit in the Somali capital,...

  The 28th extra-ordinary session of the IGAD assembly of Heads of State and Government has concluded in Mogadishu, Somalia this evening with renewed commitment by member countries, to continued support to the stability of Somalia. Ethiopia’s Prime Minister H.E Hailemariam Desalegn, who is also the...

  East African leaders arrived in Somalia’s capital for talks on issues including South Sudan’s crisis, a sign of improving security in the Horn of African country that’s trying to emerge from decades of civil war and hold elections next month. Kenyan President Uhuru Kenyatta and...

MOGADISHU, Sept 13 (Reuters) - To loud cheers from their family and friends, newlyweds Mohamed Noor and Huda Omar walk arm-in-arm through the place that will be their home - a camp for the internally displaced in Somalia's capital Mogadishu. Having met two years ago,...

By: JOSEPH RWAGATARE I don’t understand the workings of international diplomacy. Some of what I see appears illogical. Most of it involves destroying and then trying to rebuild and destroying again. Or it is about fuelling conflict and then trying to defuse it. Sometimes there is...

Dear Professor Woodward, I read with interest your analysis of Somaliland’s claim to secession, published in The Conversation on 8 September. However, I believe that there are some crucial points that differentiate Somaliland from the cases of South Sudan and Eritrea that you cite in...

  AT THE Coconut Beach Hotel, which opened last month, new guests are served coconut smoothies when they arrive. The rooms do indeed have a view of the ocean. What betrays where the hotel is, in Mogadishu, the war-torn capital of Somalia, are the two...