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

Djibouti City (Somalia Today) — Djibouti's National Assembly will hold a special session on October 26 to vote on a controversial constitutional amendment, widely...
Analysis

Why Ethiopia and Somalia are clashing over Gedo

Addis Ababa (Somalia Today) — Tensions between Ethiopia and Somalia are rising over a reported Somali plan to create a new administration in its...
East Africa

Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga dies in India at 80

Nairobi (Somalia Today) — Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga, a dominant figure in the nation's politics for decades, died Wednesday at age 80 after...
East Africa

Former Somali PM to lead AU mission for South Sudan peace

Addis Ababa (Somalia Today) - The African Union has appointed former Somali prime minister Abdiweli Mohamed Ali as its new special envoy to South...
East Africa

Egypt threatens action in Nile Dam dispute with Ethiopia

Cairo (Somalia Today) – Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi on Sunday accused Ethiopia of harming downstream nations by operating a massive dam on the...
East Africa

Somalia President snubs Nairobi summit over Jubaland dispute

Mogadishu (Somalia Today) — Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud skipped a key regional summit in Nairobi this week amid growing tensions with the semi-autonomous...
East Africa

Eritrea slams back at Ethiopia’s ‘two waters’ obsession

Asmara (Somalia Today) — Eritrea criticized Ethiopia’s ruling Prosperity Party for what it called an “obsession” with linking the Blue Nile and the Red...
East Africa

Ethiopia accuses Eritrea, TPLF of alliance to wage war

Addis-Ababa (Somalia Today) – Ethiopia has formally accused Eritrea and Tigrayan forces of forging a new military alliance to “wage war” against the state,...
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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