Horn of Africa News
The parliament speaker says 140 MPs backed the return to the September agreement that will allow for indirect presidential and parliamentary elections. Somalia’s lower house of parliament has voted unanimously…
MOGADISHU – A shaky calm has returned to Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu on Monday morning after a night of deadly clashes between troops loyal to the outgoing president and pro-opposition forces.…
MOGADISHU – Somalia’s government is on the brink of bankruptcy after donor nations suspended budget support, Finance Minister Abdirahman Bayle said on Saturday, after the country’s international partners decided not…
Sudan is caught in the middle of a decade-long row between Ethiopia and Egypt over the dam Ethiopia is building on the River Nile and in recent months it has…
Former US Deputy Secretary of State for Africa and Ambassador to Guinea and Ethiopia Tibor Nagy has advised Somalia to learn from the democratic ideals of Somaliland in holding presidential…
For several years, political tensions between Ethiopia, Sudan and Egypt have been escalating in a conflict over the near-complete Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD). The GERD is Africa’s largest hydropower…
Early in the morning of Friday, April 9, Djiboutians mobilized massively to decide between two candidates running in the 2021 presidential elections. This is Ismail Omar Guelleh, the outgoing president…
Leaders holed up inside Mogadishu’s high-security international airport have failed to agree a plan, risking further unrest. For nearly a month, men from the militias of at least two of…
Ethiopia said Wednesday it would not be deterred from impounding water at its Nile mega-dam, despite a persistent impasse with downstream countries worried about their water supply. The Grand Ethiopian…
Unconfirmed reports suggest Federation talks are said to start soon between Ethiopia and Eritrea. “You are our leader!” It is important to remember that when President Isaias made his first…
The Government of Ethiopia has revealed plans for a new railway line linking Ethiopia to Somaliland. This was disclosed in a meeting held in Addis Ababa which the Ethiopian gov’t…
By Paulo Santos, Horn of Africa Analyst Last week, a devastating fire swept through a migrant detention center in Yemen’s capital, resulting in the tragic loss of numerous lives, predominantly…
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, the President of Djibouti proceeded yesterday in Doraleh, with the inauguration of a seawater desalination plant. The first of its kind in the region, this plant, which…
Taiwan which was the latest country to set up a representative office in SL has applauded the UAE as President Musa Bihi Abdi received the letter of credence from the…
Banadir provincial administration on Thursday issued a new directive that a $5 fine will be levied on those who do not wear face masks amid surge in Covid-19 cases in…