Safaricom has obtained a $138 million (18 billion Kenyan shillings) loan from South Africa’s Standard Bank to accelerate its fast-growing operations in Ethiopia, the company…
Israel is quietly deepening its engagement across the Horn of Africa, with the self-declared independent Somaliland emerging as a strategic partner in security, trade and…
Somalia’s southwestern Jubaland region has declared full independence from the federal government, further weakening the country’s troubled federal structure. The announcement by Jubaland parliament speaker…
Somaliland president Abdirahman Mohamed Abdillahi Irro has cancelled a major cultural event linked to traditional Somali-Issa customary law following two days of deadly riots in…
Qatar is preparing to establish a diplomatic liaison office in Somaliland, signalling a major deepening of ties with the self-declared republic as Gulf powers jostle…
US President Donald Trump has launched a scathing attack on Somali immigrants, calling them “garbage” and vowing to remove them from the country as federal…
After more than three decades of de facto independence, Somaliland is intensifying its diplomatic push for international recognition, buoyed by high-level United States engagements, regional…
A remote volcano in Ethiopia’s scorched Afar region roared back to life on Sunday, ending more than 12,000 years of silence in a spectacular eruption…
In the volatile Horn of Africa, where borders have long been battlegrounds, Ethiopia and Eritrea are once again trading barbs that have raised alarms about…