Ethiopia’s Economic Miracle Is Running Out of Steam
Just over 30 years ago, Ethiopia’s famine regularly made the news. Gruesome accounts of up to a million deaths stemming from drought and civil...
Faarrow: Why this Somali sister act should be on your next Spotify playlist
(CNN)Laying down tracks for their debut album in the recording studio in Los Angeles, Iman Hashi, 25 and her sister Siham, 27 could not...
Majority Leader Aden Duale labelled ‘terrorist’ as MPs condemn Garissa attack
NAIROBI: An MP Tuesday sensationally claimed Majority Leader Aden Duale was in the know about the Al-Shabaab terror attack on the Garissa University College.
In...
Hillary Clinton begins presidential push with visit to Iowa
Hillary Clinton has begun a tour of key states in her campaign to become US president following her announcement that she intended to make...
AU soldier, 16 Somalis killed in govt building attack
The death toll from an Al-Shabab attack on Somalia's higher education ministry has risen to 17 people, officials said Tuesday, in the latest deadly...
Kenya vow not to withdraw troops from Somalia
KAKAMEGA, Kenya -- The Kenyan government on Sunday maintained it will not withdraw its troops from Somalia as being demanded by Somali militants.
Deputy President...
Silanyo Regime Is Derailing Somaliland’s Infant Democracy. By Abdirahman Mohamed Jama (Awxoog)
The five-year strategy by the ruling Kulmiye Party of strangling Somaliland’s democratization process is now a foregone conclusion. Ahmed Mohamed Mahmud Silanyo’s bid to...
Yemen crisis: Kerry warns Iran over Houthi rebel ‘support’
US Secretary of State John Kerry has warned Iran over its alleged support for Houthi rebels in Yemen.
He said the US would support any...
Somalia puts bounty on Al-Shabab leaders
MOGADISHU, Somalia's government has placed a bounty on the top 11 leaders of the militant Islamist al-Shabab group.Top of the list is its chief...
Somaliland: Losing patience in the world’s most unlikely democracy
Since the last time I was here, four years ago, Hargeisa – the scruffy, surprisingly large capital of the self-declared Republic of Somaliland –...