Somalia

Horndiplomat-22 July 2016 – Concluding a six-day visit to Somalia, a United Nations child rights envoy has called for better protection of children caught up in armed conflict, urging the country's authorities to treat former child soldiers as victims in need of protection rather...

Horndiplomat-Apart from 3 schools, a hospital linked to Gulen network will also be operated by embassy Three schools and a hospital belonging to the Fetullah Terrorist Organization-linked Nile Academy in Somalia will now operate under control of Turkey's Mogadishu embassy, according to a diplomatic source. The...

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,...

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...

Horndiplomat-Somalia has ordered organizations linked to a U.S.-based Turkish cleric shut down after Turkey’s president said Fethullah Gulen was involved Friday’s coup attempt. The decision came in an extraordinary session of the Somali cabinet on Saturday. The government ordered Turkish citizens working for Gulen-linked organizations...

Horndiplomat-Rushing about her teashop in downtown Eyl, a coastal village in Somalia, Bisharo Abdi looks the part of a busy young shopowner. However, behind this chatty young entrepenuer is a complex story. Life for Bisharo has been difficult. She was born into to a...

Horn Diplomat-:Mogadishu, 11 July 2016 – A delegation from the African Union headquarters in Addis Ababa arrived in Mogadishu, Somalia today, on a pre-election assessment mission, ahead of the elections, scheduled for August and September 2016. The four-member delegation is in the country to gauge...

Horn Diplomat-Over 100 al-Shabaab militants attacked and overpowered a Kenyan police station on Saturday, the latest in a series of attacks by the Somalia-based militant group. Police confirmed that the early-morning attack took place in the north-eastern town of Wajir, about 50 kilometers (31 miles)...

Horndiplomat-The Philippines denied Friday that piracy in its waters bordering Indonesia and Malaysia had reached Somalian levels following a recent spate of kidnappings of Southeast Asian sailors. Foreign Affairs Secretary Perfecto Yasay said the situation in the southern Philippines is much more stable than in...

HornDiplomat-The African Union (AU) plans to withdraw its troops from Somalia by the end of 2020. The exit strategy is for the Federal Somali Republic to takeover the responsibilities of security for its territory, so the AU mission in Somalia (AMISOM) can come to...