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With longer routes potentially increasing costs and delays, disruptions could eventually affect prices and supplies in Somali markets.
Somalia’s transition to one-person,one-vote elections is increasingly becoming a struggle not only over democratic reform,but also over who controls political power. The Federal government has stepped into South-West and Galmudug not…
More than 2,000 people have reached Djibouti, according to the International Organization for Migration, after the Houthis' capture of a key port city and an island on the Bab el-Mandeb Strait in recent days alarmed Yemeni civilians, who…
In October 2022, Abdalle Ahmed Mumin — Secretary-General of the Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS), the organisation that documents what happens to journalists in Somalia — arrived at Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu carrying a…
Tens of thousands of people have been displaced across Yemen in recent days, fleeing the advance of Iran-backed Houthi rebels. Some 1,400 people escaped across the Gulf of Aden to Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa.
Somali political life is intensely debated across towns, households, media platforms and diaspora communities. Yet this energy does not consistently produce the power to compel answers, reverse failed policies or remove officials whose…
Fighting broke out in Baidoa early Thursday between Somali government forces and militia loyal to former South West State predisent Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen.
As Ethiopia’s National Dialogue seeks to chart a path toward peace, it faces an immense task. The Dialogue aims to address some of the country’s most difficult political, historical, institutional, social, and peacebuilding questions. Yet…
Ethiopia’s national dialogue has endorsed constitutional changes that would merge the roles of prime minister and president into a powerful executive presidency, a move critics warn could allow Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed to further…
As international debate surrounding Somaliland’s recognition has returned to global headlines in recent months, questions of sovereignty and diplomacy have dominated the conversation. Reports of Israel’s recognition of Somaliland in…
His withdrawal leaves the men's race wide open, while the women's event is set to feature Ethiopia's Tigst Assefa, who recently set a new women's marathon world record in London.
Somaliland has spent three decades asking the world to trust a specific story about itself: a peaceful, democratic state exercising real authority over the territory it claims, with institutions worthy of recognition. The 2023 war in Las…
Ethiopia is officially in the race to host the Africa Cup of Nations in 2028, potentially bringing the continent’s biggest football tournament back to the country for the first time in more than 50 years.
A major gathering of Sudanese political forces and civil society groups opposed to the war has ended in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Drought, global funding cuts and conflict have left some 6 million Somalis facing crisis levels of hunger, about a third of the population. Two million children are suffering from acute malnutrition.
In Addis Ababa, Tigrayan women gather to celebrate Ashenda, while expressing hopes for lasting peace in Ethiopia's Tigray region, where recent drone strikes on the regional capital Mekella have renewed fears of conflict after the…
A drone strike on Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, injured at least 13 people, including five children, a hospital official said Thursday. The attack comes amid growing tensions between federal and Tigrayan forces and…
Armed forces repelled rebel fighters in the key city after hours of intense fighting that left nearly 100 wounded.
Authorities in Ethiopia's Tigray region have accused the federal government of launching a drone strike near the state capital Mekelle. Tensions between Tigray and Addis Ababa have been mounting in recent weeks, with both parties massing…
Somali national forces clashed with troops loyal to an ousted regional leader on Monday over control of a key city, the government said, accusing him of allying with Islamist insurgents
On July 7, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed told Parliament that Ethiopia had earned a record $3.1 billion from coffee exports. Six days later, the National Bank of Ethiopia reported that coffee export volume was down from the same period a year…
Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, or RSF, say they have taken full control of Geissan, in the Blue Nile region, near the Ethiopian border.
Somalia’s foreign passport crackdown reveals a governance crisis hiding in plain sight On the afternoon of June 24, 2026, Somalia’s Second Deputy Prime Minister, Jibril Abdirashid Haji, arrived at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International…
The United Nations says more than 500,000 Somalis were displaced during the first three months of this year, with drought responsible for nine out of ten displacements.
Tigray rebel authorities have accused Ethiopia’s federal government of carrying out deadly drone strikes in the region, raising fears of a renewed conflict nearly four years after a peace deal ended a devastating two-year war.