By Fidel Amakye Owusu Strategic equity demands and infrastructure investments signal a new era of African economic sovereignty. The landscape of African resource control is undergoing...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Two ambitious crown princes have emerged in the Gulf, each possessing formidable charisma, transformative visions for their respective nations, and deeply conservative...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In an undergraduate political science seminar years ago, we studied a hierarchy that divided nations into categories: superpowers, great powers, strong states,...
By Godfred Zina For more than three decades, Somaliland has governed itself as a de facto state, maintaining stability while its parent nation, Somalia, struggled with...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When Israel formally recognized Somaliland earlier this week, the international community responded with predictable outrage. The African Union (AU) condemned the move....
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Last Friday, I arrived in Lomé for the second edition of the Lomé Peace and Security Forum – an event that has...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In conflicts around the world, women and children are rarely the main combatants – but they are often the most devastated. Among...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Eritrea: Honestly, I wasn’t even asking for the spotlight. Chad: Hey, I just held an election not too long ago. And wait...
By Mary Alorh Somalia has officially assumed its seat on the United Nations Security Council (UNSC), joining Denmark, Greece, Pakistan, and Panama as one of five...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu While the different geopolitical zones across Africa have dynamics worth the attention of observers in 2025, the Horn of Africa and North...
With Türkiye successfully mediating between Somalia and Ethiopia over a naval deal involving breakaway Somaliland, Ethiopia’s defense minister visited Somalia, indicating improved relations after heightened tensions...
By Mary Alorh Former Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills’ neutral stance during the Ivorian crisis in 2010 demonstrated remarkable diplomatic acumen. When urged by then-opposition...
By Mary Alorh Former Ghanaian President John Evans Atta Mills’ neutral stance during the 2010 Ivorian crisis was a strategic move. When then-opposition leader Nana Akufo...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The Global Terrorism Index, a comprehensive study evaluating the impact of terrorism in 163 countries, covers about 99.7 percent of the world’s...
By Godfred Zina In January 2024, Ethiopia and Somaliland signed a memorandum of understanding that allowed Ethiopia access to the Red Sea via the port of...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu The secession of Eritrea from Ethiopia in the early 1990s technically made Ethiopia the largest landlocked country in the world by population...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 2022, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the second-largest and fourth-most populous country in Africa, joined the East African Community...
Reuters | Kenya has proposed a regional maritime treaty to defuse tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia over a deal allowing Ethiopia to set up a naval...
Press Release | The Federal Republic of Somalia has finally joined the East African Community (EAC) as the bloc’s 8th Partner State after officially depositing her...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After decades of severe drought and concomitant famine and socio-economic challenges in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and...
Reuters | Landlocked Ethiopia signed an initial agreement with Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland on Monday to use its Red Sea port of Berbera, Prime Minister...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Integration in Africa was one of the pressing topics in the 1950s and 1960s. At a point, disagreement over how to achieve...
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
Bloomberg | Somalia’s President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed announced his candidacy for long-delayed presidential elections that will be held later this month. “I am announcing my re-election...
By John M. Mugane Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is...
Kenya’s dominance however has historically been tested by Ethiopians. More recently, the challenge comes from the emergence of Uganda, cementing the place of East Africa as...
As the High Representative, Mahama will work with Somali stakeholders, to reach a mutually acceptable compromise towards an all-encompassing resolution for the holding of elections in...
Kenya will not forcibly repatriate some 336,000 Somalis living in one of the world’s largest refugee camps – the Dabaab camp – however, the Kenyatta administration...
Kenya’s police chief issued Wednesday a list of 85 people and companies, including at least 13 key money transfer companies, of suspected links to Somalia’s al-Qaeda-linked...
Somalia’s new prime minister nominated a 20-member cabinet, his second attempt at forming a government almost two months after his predecessor was ousted in a no-confidence...
Kenyan troops will remain in Somalia until peace and stability is restored to the region, President Uhuru Kenyatta said, one year after gunmen stormed a shopping...
For the first time in more than 20 years, the United States will appoint an ambassador to Somalia in what a senior official on Tuesday described...
Uganda insists it will not pull out its troops from the troubled Somalia, despite an increase in attacks on its soldiers by Somali militants. Uganda’s Defence...
Security trumps all as the Kenyatta government enters its second year in office and the economy weakens due to concerns about terrorism and the rising costs...
The Kenyan economy is set to face a strain as the country is moving toward increased security so as to lure prospective investors. Robert Bunyi, chief...
Somalian business leaders urged its government to create a clear firm legal framework that will drive investment into the country. Somalia’s government reassured the business community...
(Reuters) – An explosion in an area of Kenya’s capital Nairobi that is popular with Somalis killed 6 people and wounded several others on Monday, the...
African Union forces said they have reclaimed more territory from the al-Qaida-linked militant group, al-Shabab, in renewed military operations across Somalia. However, restoring the government’s political...
A car bomb has exploded close to a convoy of United Nations vehicles near Mogadishu’s international airport on Thursday, killing 6 Somalis on the street, officials...
Newly elected President of Somalia’s Puntland, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali. PHOTO/European Press Agency Parliament narrowly elected former prime minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali as president Somalia’s semi-autonomous region...
Somalia’s president has nominated a political newcomer as prime minister Thursday, days after his predecessor was ousted following a vote of no confidence. President Hassan Sheikh...
Outgoing Prime Minister of Somalia, Abdi Farah Shirdon. PHOTO/Tobin Jones Members of parliament in Somalia voted Monday to oust the country’s prime minister and his Cabinet...
As the world focuses on the tragedy in the Philippines, Somalia too is suffering the effects of another cyclone. At least 100 people are feared dead...
(Reuters) – Security worries are nothing new in Kenya and so the country is unlikely to see long term investors pull money out after the deadly...
Somalia named Yussur Abrar as the country’s first female central bank governor, replacing Abdusalam Omer, who resigned after a United Nations monitoring group accused him of...
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys. PHOTO/Abukar Albadri/EPA Unconfirmed reports from Somalia indicate that one of the senior officials of the radical Islamist al-Shabaab, Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys...
Troops from the African Union force AMISOM said they had secured a United Nations compound in the Somali capital Mogadishu after it was attacked by Islamist...
Somalis register new cell phones. PHOTO/Reuters It may be two steps forward and one step back but Somalia is beginning to pick itself up off the...
A barrage of bullets and two car bomb blasts rattled Mogadishu on Sunday when nine al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab Islamic extremists stormed Somalia’s main court complex, officials said,...
The Security Council yesterday extended for another year the mandate of the African Union peacekeeping force in Somalia, as it continues to consider a revised United...
Kenyan troops invaded the al-Qaida affiliated al-Shabaab’s last stronghold in Somalia, coming ashore in a predawn assault Friday. Other African Union forces were traveling overland to...
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud inaugurated Somalia’s new leader was inaugurated Sunday amid tight security in the capital, Mogadishu, four days after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud survived...
Newly elected Somalia President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. PHOTO/File Somalia’s president survived an assassination bid Wednesday, just two days into his new job, when bomb blasts claimed...
Somalia’s new president Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. PHOTO/File Somalia’s Parliament elected a new president of the country’s fledgling government Monday, a move that members of the international...
Lawmakers in Somalia are scheduled to choose the next president Monday, moving the country a step closer to its first stable government since the 1991 ouster...
Members of a new parliament in Somalia are being sworn in, presidential elections are to be held in the coming weeks. The mandate for Somalia’s U.N....
A Uganda air force pilot, is rescued from the wreckage of a helicopter on Mount Kenya. Rescue teams were searching on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012 for...
An explosion ripped through a building full of small shops in downtown Nairobi on Monday, wounding at least 16 people, the police commissioner said. He could...
One person died and 15 people were wounded when a grenade was thrown into a church in Kenya’s capital during Sunday service, an official said, an...
Somali officials said Friday they are pleading with U.S. authorities to persuade banks to reconsider a decision to block money transfers from Minnesota’s Somali community to...
A Somali government minister says 200 troops from Djibouti have arrived in Somalia’s capital to join the African Union (AU) force that helps protect the government...
United Nations (U.N.) Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon arrived in Somalia’s seaside capital on Friday, the first visit in years by the U.N.’s top leader to a city...
Kenyan Soldiers in Somalia. FILE Photo Kenya’s Parliament on Wednesday endorsed the government’s decision to allow the Kenya Defense Forces (KDF) to join the African Union...
Ethiopia said Friday it may contribute troops to the African Union force in Somalia fighting al-Qaida-affiliated insurgents. East African leaders meeting in the Ethiopian capital of...
As hundreds of Kenyan soldiers hunt al-Qaida-linked militants in Somalia, university students are growing angry that their government can afford a military operation but not raises...
Eritrea has rejected Kenyan allegations that it may be arming al-Shabaab fighters in Somalia, as a diplomatic row between the two countries intensifies. Moses Wetangula, Kenya’s...
Kenya’s foreign minister summoned Eritrea’s ambassador on Friday and “raised concern” over the possibility that planes from Eritrea are supplying weapons to Somali militants whom Kenyan...
The United Nations (U.N.) says the number of famine refugees flowing into Kenya slowed to a trickle after Kenyan troops moved into Somalia. The U.N. said...
Somalia’s president on Monday criticized Kenya’s military offensive into his nation to root out Islamist rebels, raising questions about how bilateral the military action is. Kenya...
Witnesses: Second explosion has gone off in Kenya’s capital (Nairobi); AP reporter sees at least 1 dead. Copyright 2011 The Associated Press.
Dr. Adan Hassan Hillow, center-left, and Dr. Ali Omar Salim, center-right, appear in courtroom. (Photo: The Standard) Kenyan police have arrested a Muslim cleric on a...
The full impact of Kenya’s war on Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab started to emerge on Wednesday after the Kenyan treasury warned of possible spending cuts in...
Members of Kenya’s army march dais during a recent ceremony in Nairobi. A push by Kenyan ground forces toward a strategic Somali town has been slowed...
Kenyan military forces moved into southern Somalia on Sunday, an official and residents said, a day after top Kenyan defense officials said the country has the...
Heavy fighting broke out in Somalia’s capital on Monday after pro-government forces attacked militant positions following what the African Union force said were the deaths of...
MOGADISHU, Somalia — Somali rapper K’naan has brought his waving flag back home to help his countrymen as they struggle with a devastating famine. The Somali-Canadian...
Recent high-profile events, like hostage rescue operations carried out by France and the attempted hijacking of the MAERSK Alabama and the dramatic rescue of her Captain...
NAIROBI, Kenya — An international aid group says it has launched an initiative to get Africans and their governments to donate to famine relief efforts in...
A mother and her childen wait for assistance at a makeshift medical camp in the Hawlwadag district of Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo: EPA The season of “giving”...
The African Union said in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Thursday it has postponed by two weeks a donor conference to raise money for Somalis and other Horn...
