President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, left, attends a special assembly about his presidential term in Mogadishu on May 1. (AFP/Getty Images) Somalia’s federal government and leaders of most of its regional…
A general view of the Blue Nile river as it passes through the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), near Guba in Ethiopia, on 26 December 2019 [EDUARDO SOTERAS/AFP via Getty…
A handout satellite image shows a view of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) in Ethiopia, on July 28, 2020. (Satellite image ©2020 Maxar Technologies via Reuters) Ethiopia plans to…
Kenya’s airways plans to start direct flights from Nairobi to Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland May 28. Kenya and Somaliland reached the first historic bilateral agreement at the end of…
The TPLF, not the Abiy government and its allies, is responsible for the ongoing conflict in Ethiopia. On November 29 of last year, Ethiopia’s Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed announced the end of…
Police officers stand in front of a billboard of the political party of Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, The Prosperity Party, during the electoral campaign for the general elections in Addis…
According to sources privy to discussions between the President of the Republic of Somaliland HE Muse Bihi Abdi, and the Qatari delegation headed by the Special Envoy of the Minister of Foreign…
U.S. Special Envoy for the Horn of Africa Jeffrey Feltman, left, meets with Egyptian Foreign Minister Sameh Shoukry at the foreign ministry in Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, May 5, 2021. CAIRO…
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 and parliamentary elections Nagy…
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 plant. It dams the…
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…
