Horn of Africa News
In this Feb. 7, 2009 file photo, Djibouti men and women dance during the opening ceremony of Dubai-based port operator DP World’s Doraleh container terminal in Djibouti port. (AP Photo/Adam…
Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed secured a popular mandate to rule the Horn of Africa nation, which is confronting a deepening political crisis that’s alarmed investors and drained national coffers.…
Poor but Democratic! The Republic of Somaliland makes us Africans everywhere Proud. A dirty white, bullet-pocked house, without electricity and running water, does not merit a second glance in the…
Women’s groups welcome move, but say implementing it in time for Feb. 8 vote will be challenging GAROWE, Somalia, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nearly a third of Somalia’s…
Kenya and Somalia have agreed to restore diplomatic relations following talks between leaders of the two neighboring countries in Djibouti, a Somali government official said. Mohamed Abdirizak Mohamud, the foreign…
By Aklile Tsige While there was a controversial and undesired law enforcing operation in the Northern part of Ethiopia, a strong, committed and brave Ethiopian woman fighter came out as…
Djibouti’s President Ismail Omar Guelleh on Tuesday, Nov. 12, 2019 in Paris. (Ludovic Marin/Pool via AP) The deadly conflict between Ethiopia’s federal government and Tigrayan rebels continues to intensify, especially…
Not so long ago, Oromos in Ethiopia, despite making up the country’s largest ethnic group, were reluctant to openly express their cultural and ethnic identity. This could go as far…
MOGADISHU (HOL) – South and central regions of Somalia are currently experiencing internet shut-downs in what local telcos said was a result of routine maintenance. The country’s largest telecommunications operator,…
Horn of Africa Update on Coronavirus deaths as of October 11, 2020 Ethiopia deaths 1,277Somalia deaths 3,745Djibouti deaths 61Somaliland deaths 32Eritrea deaths 0 As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic…
Mohamed Hussein Roble, center, came to Sweden in 1992 and got his citizenship five years later. Photo: Somali Presidents’ Office A Swedish-Somali engineer has been named the new prime minister…
In Somalia’s political scene, the revolving door is brutal and not even presidents can be safe. Every sort of election held in and out of Somalia since the fall of…
In our series of letters from African journalists, Ismail Einashe looks at how some Italians are revaluating their colonial past in Africa.
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed along with three state leaders and the mayor of Mogadishu have reached an agreement on the country’s election model after days of…
Mogadishu (HOL) – A plane carrying the body of former Somali Prime Minister Hassan Abshir Farah has landed at Mogadishu’s Aden Adde International Airport on Thursday morning where government officials…