Residents in Jigjiga, the administrative capital of the Ethiopian Somali regional, state says many families fled their house due to the escalating tension in the eastern city. The situation remains tense as the Federal military forces are still controlling the town’s main streets and the local government buildings, including the parliament house. There have been

Khartoum – Somali Times The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Mr Hassan Ali Khaire and the President of Sudan Omar Hassan Al-Bashir held a meeting in Khartoum on a two-day official visit to the Horn of Africa nation. , development, investment and development in the region as a whole. “I have a

This is the latest in a series of diplomatic tensions over the past few weeks between the government of Saudi Arabia and Canada, the Saudi Arabian summit said it will suspend all flights between the two countries on Monday. Adel al-Jubeir, Saudi Arabia’s minister of foreign affairs, has previously accused the government of interfering in

The United States-backed Special Forces have taken over a strategic base from the Al-Qaeda linked Al-Shabaab in Southern Somalia, today. A surprise dawn attack was launched by American Special Forces along with the “Danab”, Somalia’s Special Forces unit, triggering a lengthy gun battle. The operation resulted in taking back key villages, including Bulo-Konto, Dangriga Balow,

The long-serving leader of Ethiopia’s Somali regional state has announced his resignation after the Federal forces have raided and seized control of his seat in Jigjiga city recently. President Abdi Mohamud Omar stepped down as negotiations with the Federal government of Ethiopia based in Addis Ababa, according to the sources. His Finance minister, Ahmed Abdi

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani dismissed a U.S. call for talks on Tuesday, the eve of the imposition of new sanctions that follows Washington’s decision to pull out of an agreement over Iran’s nuclear programme. The United States is due to impose new sanctions against Iran on Tuesday intended to cripple its economy, implementing President Donald

Mogadishu – The Ethiopian National Defense Force (ENDF) have moved into Jijiga, the capital of the Somali Regional State (SRS) in Ethiopia, and have strategically positioned themselves in key installations after a break down of relations between the Federal Government of Ethiopia and the Somali regional President Abdi Mohamoud Omar Abdi Iley‘the one-eyed’. Supporters of

Something happening in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa. Eritrea and Ethiopia are making peace. It is as if North and South Korea made friends, not just with platitudes at a summit but with actions on the ground. In recent weeks Ethiopia’s new prime minister, Abiy Ahmed, and Eritrea’s dictator, Isaias Afwerki, have signed a peace

The former Ethiopian dictator Colonel Mengistu Hailemariam has met with Ethiopia’s former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn in Zimbabwe’s capital Harare on Wednesday. The surprise meeting between Hailemariam, who was Ethiopia’s Prime Minister until he resigned in April 2018, and Mengistu has stunned many in Ethiopia who had a rare glimpse of Mengistu since he fled

Djibouti has formally responded to a recent call by Somalia that United Nations Security Council sanctions on Eritrea be lifted. According to Djibouti, it was ‘deeply shocked’ by that position. Somali president Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed on a three-day official visit to Asmara said the sanctions imposed since 2009 had to be lifted given the current