How foreign backing is keeping Sudan’s Omar al-Bashir in power

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Day after day Sudanese are taking to the streets to protest against the rule of Omar al-Bashir. The president, who himself seized power in 1989 when...

Somalia:EUCAP Nestor Planning and Programming Workshop held in Puntland

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PRESS RELEASE October 31st 2016 From October 29th to 30th, EUCAP Nestor conducted a two-day workshop in order to address the needs and priorities the...

Somaliland exploits Kenya to build broader trade ties

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The Government of Somaliland together with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) has planned a Trade and Investment Conference in Nairobi to market Somaliland...

Somaliland Set To Host Investment Forum In Nairobi

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NAIROBI – Somaliland government, through its Liaison office in Nairobi, will on Friday hold a major investment conference in the Kenyan capital to woo...

Abiy’s big steps shouldn’t obscure undercurrents in Ethiopia

Members of the Ethiophian Oromo Liberation Front hold a protest in front of the Chancellery in Berlin. EPA/Wolfgang Kumm
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Positive headlines about Ethiopia have been frequent since the country’s new Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took over in early April. One of the biggest steps...

The slow re-awakening of Islamic finance in Somalia

Somali children play on the swing at the Peace Garden, during Eid al-Fitr celebration in Mogadishu in this photo dated June 15, 2018. Somalia, the troubled land at the Horn of Africa with one of the most homogeneous Muslim populations in the world, is believed to benefit from the strong footprint Islamic finance is currently setting in East Africa.
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By Arno Maierbrugger Somalia, the troubled land at the Horn of Africa with one of the most homogeneous Muslim populations in the world, is believed...

UAE To Restore Berbera Airport, Build Electricity Plant

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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) plans to restore the Berbera Airport in the second largest city of Somaliland to have it accommodate large aircrafts. This...

How I went to Somaliland and… Taught Artificial Intelligence

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TL;DR: I had a pleasure to be a part of the first AI conference in Somaliland, organised by Shaqodoon, HarHub and Elmi Academy, and featuring speakers from Google, MIT,...

Somaliland: DP World Increases water supply to Berbera Residents

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Project adds 60 percent more water to local distribution system Berbera, Somaliland-13 February 2019: Global trade enabler DP World on Monday launched a new water...

Climate Change Is Here—and It Looks Like Starvation

As famine and drought spread through Somaliland, a villager carries bags of rice, sugar, dates and palm oil back to his house after collecting food from a charity, May 2017. (Joe Giddens / PA Wire)
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But don’t expect to hear about it on the nightly news. By Ben Ehrenreich There is a blur where the horizon once was, a question mark...