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East Africa

East Africa

Why Museveni’s Indian Ocean remarks alarmed Kenya

Nairobi (Somalia Today) — Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni’s recent comments that the Indian Ocean “belongs” to Uganda have sparked more than jokes and internet...
East Africa

Somalia’s EALA seats frozen as court battle continues

Nairobi (Somalia Today) — Somalia has asked Kenya to help break a legal deadlock over its East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) seats. A regional...
East Africa

Ethiopia’s sea access illusion: A dream that died before it reached the shore

Ethiopia’s repeated push for sea access, published on Addis Standard, reflects a political dream that ignores geography, history, international law, and the security interests...
East Africa

Kenya wins ICJ seat vacated by Somali judge Yusuf

Mogadishu (Somalia Today) — Kenyan legal scholar Professor Phoebe Okowa has been elected as a judge of the International Court of Justice (ICJ). She...
East Africa

Afwerki decries ‘foreign meddling’ as Ethiopia seeks port

Cairo (Somalia Today) — Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki decried "foreign meddling" in the Horn of Africa, accusing outside powers of "complicating" regional conflicts during...
East Africa

China expands influence in ‘Djibouti-Mogadishu corridor’

Djibouti City (Somalia Today) — A new defense partnership between Pakistan and Somalia is poised to expand China’s strategic maritime footprint across the Horn...
East Africa

Abiy: ‘No official record’ exists for Ethiopia’s sea access loss

Addis Ababa (Somalia Today) — Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed said Tuesday there is "no official record or institutional decision" documenting the Ethiopia sea access...
East Africa

Djibouti lifts age limit, paves way for Guelleh 2026 run

Djibouti City (Somalia Today) — Djibouti's parliament voted unanimously on Sunday to remove the 75-year age limit for presidential candidates. The move clears a constitutional...
An Ethiopian flag flutters in the wind next to the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD), built along the Blue Nile

Ethiopia plans three new Nile dams sparking Egyptian anger

Ethiopia's National Defense Force (ENDF) members attend the 116th celebration of the Ethiopian Defense Force Day

Ethiopian troops mass near Eritrean border over Red Sea port

Djibouti's President Ismael Omer Guelleh speaks during a meeting at the presidential palace in Djibouti City in this file photo from December 27, 2022.

Djibouti’s Guelleh blasts Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, UAE role

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose government is pursuing sea access, arrives at a BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.

Landlocked Ethiopia adds maritime force ‘to deter’ war

Turkish President Erdogan and Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed shaking hands in Addis Ababa.

Erdogan backs Somalia, warns Horn risks ‘arena of struggle’

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud listens during the African Union summit in Addis Ababa.

Saudi-UAE feud in Horn of Africa overshadows AU summit

Abiy Ahmed and Isaias Afwerki amid rising Eritrea-Ethiopia tensions

Eritrea hits back at Ethiopia over ‘fabricated’ border claims

President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi and President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud during a press conference in Cairo, February 8 2026.

Egypt and Somalia bolster ties to defend Red Sea sovereignty

Somaliland leader Abdirahman Irro and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Israel’s Somaliland recognition jolts Horn of Africa diplomacy

Locals gather around the burnt vehicle of the Hulugho chief, torched by militants after his killing in Garissa.

Al-Shabaab militants kill chief, teacher in eastern Kenya

The Antonov An-124 Maximus Air Cargo, photographed here in Dubai in 2007, connected to UAE supply routes to Sudan and Libya (Wikimedia)

UAE arms flights pivot to Israel, Ethiopia after Somalia exit

President Donald Trump speaks to reporters at Mar-a-Lago

Trump offers to mediate Egypt-Ethiopia dam row in letter to Sisi

Ethiopian Foreign Minister Gedion Timothewos in Moscow

Ethiopia says sea access is a ‘generational’ cause

IGAD logo on a white background

IGAD regrets Eritrea’s decision to exit the organisation

Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki speaks at BRICS summit

Eritrea withdraws from IGAD over ‘violations of mandate’

Somali and Ethiopian leaders shake hands in Addis Ababa

Ethiopia says Somalia backs its ‘two waters’ plan. Does it?

Museveni at Kampala summit amid Indian Ocean remarks Kenya

Why Museveni’s Indian Ocean remarks alarmed Kenya

Somalia Speaker Sheikh Aden Nur with Kenya Speaker Moses Wetangula during talks on Somalia EALA seats.

Somalia’s EALA seats frozen as court battle continues

Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, whose government is pursuing sea access, arrives at a BRICS summit in Kazan, Russia.

Ethiopia’s sea access illusion: A dream that died before it reached the shore

Professor Phoebe Okowa and Ambassador Ekitela Lokaale celebrating Kenya's ICJ seat win.

Kenya wins ICJ seat vacated by Somali judge Yusuf

President Isaias Afwerki speaks during a visit in Nairobi Kenya

Afwerki decries ‘foreign meddling’ as Ethiopia seeks port

Somalia President Hassan Sheikh and Djibouti President Ismael Guelleh in Djibouti City, July 27, 2025.

China expands influence in ‘Djibouti-Mogadishu corridor’

Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed addresses Ethiopia's parliament regarding the Ethiopia sea access loss and regional tensions on October 28, 2025.

Abiy: ‘No official record’ exists for Ethiopia’s sea access loss

Djibouti's President Ismael Omer Guelleh speaks to the media at a press conference in this 2022 file photo.

Djibouti lifts age limit, paves way for Guelleh 2026 run

Djibouti's President Ismael Omer Guelleh speaks during a meeting at the presidential palace in Djibouti City in this file photo from December 27, 2022.

Djibouti mulls age limit change to let Guelleh, 77, run

Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, left, and Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed at a meeting in Addis Ababa on February 14, 2025.

Why Ethiopia and Somalia are clashing over Gedo

Raila Odinga, wearing a blue suit, waves to a large crowd of supporters from a stage.

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga dies in India at 80

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