The election of a new national leadership in Somalia will offer an opportunity to develop a new common framework for cooperation. By Cleophas Thomas Somalia’s leaders have agreed to hold delayed parliamentary and presidential elections by October 10 this year. The...
The plane had been carrying humanitarian and medical supplies to help the country fight the spread of coronavirus. Ethiopia on Saturday admitted it was behind the shooting down of a privately owned Kenyan plane in Somalia earlier this week, resulting...
For the second year in a row, Kenya’s Port of Mombasa has ranked below Berbera in the #World_Bank’s Container Port Performance Index. Mombasa dropped to 328th position globally out of 405 ports, down from 326. Meanwhile, the Port of Berbera...
The Hague Based International Justice Court –ICJ is scheduled to start public hearings over the maritime dispute between Kenya and Somalia in early November. On Tuesday, the court outlined conditions to journalists, diplomats and members of the public wishing to...
The Kenyan Ministry of Foreign Affairs earlier in the week named its chargé d’affaires and his team for its new consulate in Hargeisa, Somaliland. Plans to have a Kenyan consulate in Hargeisa were cemented last December when Somaliland President Muse...
A woman walks past a police armed vehicle in Eastleigh - Nairobi’s “little Mogadishu” Photo by Billy Mutai/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty The economic impact of COVID-19 is being felt across the world. This also applies to refugees. For about eight years a team of...
Hon. Ababu Namwamba, CAS at The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Kenya has delivered a speech at FSA for the induction of the EALA MPs, new EAS sec General and Kenya’s Consulate General of the Rep of Somaliland. According to...
The Kenyan government last week sent an expeditionary delegation consisting of diplomats to Hargeisa, Somaliland. Both the governments of Kenya and Somaliland have not issued a statement on the alleged visit, The Horn has obtained reliable reports confirm the purpose...
Patrick Gathara/Al Jazeera] By Patrick Gathara Undermining international institutions comes at a price. When he was first elected in 2013, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta, along with his running mate, William Ruto, was awaiting prosecution at the International Criminal Court. They had been...
In just under a month, Kenya will be on the ballot for one of the five vacant slots reserved for non-permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Kenya’s bid follows a resounding endorsement by the African Union in...