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What the rest of the world is publishing about the Horn of Africa — and what the Horn's own newsrooms are publishing about everywhere else.
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(ERGO) – A new stretch of gravel road has turned a quiet neighbourhood in Badhan, Sanag region, into a thriving local market, giving low-income families a chance to trade and earn regular incomes. The three-kilometre section of road…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Hanah Olson, Horndiplomat Global Reporter JERUSALEM, Aug 10 (Horndiplomat) — Israeli Diaspora Affairs Minister Amichai Chikli has called for Israel to deepen its ties with Somaliland, the United Arab…
(ERGO) – A Somali organisation has developed a locally produced nutritional supplement that they are delivering to malnourished children from poor families living in internal displacement camps in Mogadishu. The nutritional food is…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Duale NAIROBI, Kenya — Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Irro) has called for deeper international investment and cooperation based on mutual interests, saying his government…
(ERGO) – Around 180 farming families have fled their homes in villages south of Baidoa in southern Somalia’s Bay region after a flare up of conflict over access to land between farming and pastoralist communities. The families have sought…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Duale BERBERA, Somaliland, Aug. 9 — The Somaliland Ports Authority led a swift, coordinated emergency response to contain a fire involving a small fishing boat some distance away from Berbera…
(ERGO) – Nomadic pastoralist families who migrated trying to save their livestock say they are trapped in dried out plainland areas south of the Somaliland capital Hargeisa, unable to move away again due to lack of resources. Their…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Duale STUTTGART, Germany, Aug. 3 — Somaliland’s Minister of Defense, Mohamed Yusuf Ali, led a senior delegation to the headquarters of the U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) in Stuttgart, Germany,…
(ERGO) – When the River Juba flooded in June in the area of Baar-Sanguni village, some 50 kilometres north of Kismayo, Faisal Dahir Muse was caught unawares just as he was preparing to harvest crops and vegetables on his five-hectare farm.…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Duale HARGEISA, Aug. 6 — Senior officials from the World Bank and Somaliland’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development held talks on Wednesday to review the implementation of the World…
(ERGO) – Nearly 200 families displaced by violent ongoing clan conflict in Jalalaqsi, in Hirshabelle state’s Middle Shabelle region, have arrived in an under-resourced displacement camp in Mogadishu’s Garasbaley district. They are living…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ Applications are now open for the UK Government’s fully funded Chevening Scholarships, offering talented Somali professionals the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree at leading UK universities. The…
(ERGO) – The closure of many humanitarian aid programmes in dozens of internal displacement camps in Galkayo has caused job losses and hardship, as well as gaps in information among families living in the camps. Hassan Hussein Noor lost…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Duale ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 5 — Ethiopia’s Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos and African Union Commission Chairperson Mahmoud Ali Youssouf held high-level talks in Addis Ababa on Wednesday,…
(ERGO) – As land prices rise in the growing Somali city of Beletweyne, increased numbers of displaced families are being evicted – often repeatedly – from camps built to house them on privately owned land. Farah Ali Kalayr’s family of…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Duale HARGEISA, Aug. 3 — Somaliland President Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi (Irro) has ordered free dialysis treatment for kidney patients, the urgent purchase of 15 additional dialysis…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Duale ADDIS ABABA, Aug. 3 — Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed joined millions of citizens on Sunday in a nationwide campaign to plant 800 million tree seedlings in a single day, as…
https://www.horndiplomat.com/feed/ By: Mohamed Duale HARGEISA, Aug. 2 — Somaliland’s Ministry of Finance and Economic Development has launched a new initiative to centralize the printing, registration and oversight of government revenue…