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Kenya Government wants ,Somaliland agreement over miraa sale

Horndiplomat-Meru County Governor Peter Munya has urged the government to promote the Miraa market in Somaliland that buys most of its Miraa plant from Ethiopia. Munya who was speaking at Kabachi in Igembe North Sub County during the burial of the late Mzee Peter Njilu...

SOMALILAND: PROBABLE GRAVE RAMIFICATIONS FROM AN OTHER PRESIDENTIAL TERM EXTENSION

Written by:Mohammed Dahir Ahmed Horndiplomat-Democracy without timely elections is an other form of authoritarianism and infringement of people’s democratic and constitutional rights. One of the main pillars of Somaliland Stability is the citizens prerogative to choose who they want in office. Purging such right will...

Turkey’s president declares state of emergency after coup attempt

Horndiplomat-Turkey's president has declared a state of emergency for three months following Friday night's failed army coup. Speaking at the presidential palace in Ankara, Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed that "all the viruses within the armed forces will be cleansed". The declaration could be used to extend...

Trump staff writer takes responsibility for Melania speech controversy

Horndiplomat-staff writer of the Trump Organization, the company owned by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, has claimed responsibility for inserting passages in a speech given at the Republican National Convention by Trump's wife Melania that resembled parts of a 2008 speech by first lady...

Why Somaliland now needs international recognition

By James Jeffrey HorndiplomaIn mid-April a boat capsized crossing the Mediterranean killing up to 500 migrants, a large proportion of whom most international media reported as being Somali. But in Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, local media noted how many who died were actually Somalilanders. Since...

African Force in Somalia Gets New Commander as Uganda Plans Exit

Horndiplomat-A new commander took control of the African Union force battling al-Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia as Uganda said it wants to withdraw its troops from the war-torn nation by the end of next year. Lieutenant General Osman Noor Soubagleh arrived Monday in the capital, Mogadishu,...

Czech court sentenced U.S. citizen Kevin Dahlgren to life in prison(Photos)

Horndiplomat-A Czech court sentenced U.S. citizen Kevin Dahlgren to life in prison on Wednesday for stabbing to death a family of four of his relatives whom he had been visiting in 2013. The court handed Dahlgren, 24, from Palo Alto, California, the maximum penalty for...

Kenya:Our Generation will See Healthcare in Africa on Par with the Rest of the World

By John Flannery, President and CEO at GE Healthcare Horndiplomat-Packed securely inside the boxes in the picture above was a new mammography system, being ferried upstream from the Port of Lamu in Kenya, where I traveled last month, to a small rural town, where women...

Somali Migrant Returns Home After Losing Hope in Europe

HORNDIPLOMAT-Burhan Jama Mohamed, 25, was in his final year of education studies at college when he migrated from Garowe to Europe a year ago. He said goodbye to his wife, pregnant with their first child, and travelled through Ethiopia and Sudan to Libya and then...

Exclusive: Trump could seek new law to purge government of Obama appointees

CLEVELAND | BY EMILY FLITTER Republican U.S. presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks live via satellite from Trump Tower in New York City during the second session at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S. July 19, 2016. REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR If he wins the presidency, Republican presidential...