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Frenetic pace of Ethiopia’s khat boomtown

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AWADAY — The global trade in khat is worth hundreds of millions of dollars a year and in one Ethiopian town daily life centres almost ...

SOMALIA: Gunmen gun down Radio Shabelle director

MOGADISHU — Gunmen shot and killed the director of Radio Shabelle while getting home from work on Saturday evening in the Somali capital. A producer ...

Why are kidnappings a problem in and around Somalia?

Poverty is stark in Somalia. The country doesn’t have a government strong enough to stop the crime. Those two things have helped make kidnapping foreigners ...

Djibouti: Preliminary results of regional and municipal elections

DJIBOUTI — Djibouti’s ruling party has swept the second regional elections ever held in the country in this weekend, easily maintaining its strong grip on ...

Tribes clash in central Somalia, up to six said dead

LAS ANOD — Two rival tribes clashed over pasture in Mudug province in central Somalia on Sunday and a local news bulletin cited a report ...

Death toll rises as Nigeria descends into sectarian chaos

Photo: Multiple explosions and gun battles with armed assailants have left the streets of the northern Nigerian city of Kano in chaos (AFP) ABUJA — Bomb ...

DJIBOUTI: FAO donates farming equipment and cars worth over $1 million

DJIBOUTI — The Min. of Agriculture, Livestock & Fisheries, Mohamed Ahmed Awaleh, accepted the delivery of cars, equipment, various tools, agricultural inputs, veterinary products and ...

Somalia’s mini-state madness — meet West Puntland State

LAS ANOD — Somalia’s largely disputed province of Mudug last week witnessed the declaration of a new semi-autonomous region within the Somali state after locals ...

Ethiopia says Eritrea-trained gunmen killed tourists

ADDIS ABABA — Gunmen have killed five foreign tourists in Ethiopia’s remote northern Afar region, after crossing into the Horn of Africa country from neighbouring ...

SOMALIA: Ethiopian troops arrest rival Somali leaders in central town

LAS ANOD — Ethiopian troops stationed in the central Somali town of Beledweyne in Hiiraan province arrested two Somali leaders on Sunday afternoon after refusing ...

Ethiopia signs Djibouti railway deal with China

ADDIS ABABA — Ethiopia signed an agreement with a Chinese state-run firm to build the final section of a railway line that will link its ...

Tunisia marks year since Ben Ali ousted

TUNIS — Tunisians have marked the first anniversary of the ousting of President Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali, an event that triggered the Arab Spring. Crowds filled ...

Insecurity Grows in Somali Refugee Camps in Horn of Africa

NAIROBI — The United Nations refugee agency warns of growing insecurity in camps sheltering hundreds of thousands of Somali refugees in the Horn of Africa. ...

Africa’s largest dam to lift Ethiopia out of poverty

ADDIS ABABA — In the western fringe of Ethiopia on the banks of the Blue Nile river, the nation’s Prime Minister Meles Zenawi thundered that ...

SOMALIA: Turks teach Somalis how to make bread

The Turkish team would open a mobile kitchen to meet food need of 10,000 people a day, Lostar also said. MOGADISHU — Turkish Red Crescent teaches ...

Somali Nationalism: A Dead Concept?

By Peter Lockwood What are the prospects for urgently needed national unity? Nairobi, Kenya: Since 1991, Somalia has undergone a tumultuous process of geopolitical reconfiguration. Some have termed ...

ONLF Inside Somali State of Ethiopia

The creation of Somali State of Ethiopia coincided with the collapse of “Somalia” during 1990’s, after liberation of Ethiopia. The vain theory of “Greater Somalia” ...

Maternal Health Poses Another Major Challenge for Somalia

MOGADISHU — Two decades of civil war in Somalia have made the country one of the most dangerous places in the world for a woman ...

South Sudan’s cattle war displaces thousands

JUBA — Aid groups are mounting a “major emergency operation” in rural South Sudan after tribe-on-tribe violence sent tens of thousands fleeing and killed an ...

Turkey to start distributing potable water to Somalis from well

MOGADISHU — The ministry said DSI teams would start distributing potable water to the tent-site as of Saturday. Turkish State Water Works (DSI) will start distributing ...

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