News Ethiopia Somali: Displaced women in eastern Ethiopia stand up to pressure, stigma over family planning
UNITED NATIONS, New York/SOMALI REGION, Ethiopia – Trik Dulene knows all about bullying and coercion when it comes to a woman’s reproductive choices. Although she and her husband agreed to use family planning after their two daughters were born, her in-laws demanded she give them more grandchildren. The pressure eventually broke apart her marriage: When her daughters were 12 and 15, her husband left them.
News Ethiopia Somali: All eyes on Jubaland State elections in Somalia
A silent war is being waged between the Somalia Federal government, Jubaland state, Qatar, UAE, Ethiopia and Kenya over who will be the next president. During Somalia’s last 28 years of ...
News Ethiopia Somali: Ethiopia arrests over prison escape plot for ex-Somali region prez
Police in Ethiopia have made arrests over a plot for an ex-regional president to escape prison detention, the local Reporter Ethiopia have disclosed. Abdi Mohamoud Omar known as Abdi Illey is ...
News Ethiopia Somali: Somalia: Political Temperatures Rise in Kismayo As Madobe Refuses to Meet Ethiopian
Jubaland President Ahmed Mohamed Islam, Ahmed Madoobe's has reportedly refused to meet with an Ethiopian delegation that reached Kismayo to try to mediate between his Jubaland administration and the Federal Government of Somalia over fears that Madoobe has kidnapped the Jubaland election process in his favour, reliable sources confirmed to Dalsan on Monday.
News Ethiopia Somali: Freedom House Report Places Somaliland Ahead of Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Egypt in Freedom
(MENAFN - SomTribune) US-based independent watchdog Freedom House has asserted it's latest report that the Republic of Somaliland enjoys more freedom than other Horn of Africa's countries like ...
News Ethiopia Somali: Ethiopia: Should Ethiopia Recognize Somaliland?
Opinion - The beginning of this month saw the Transitional Federal "Government" of Somalia, residing in a highly fortified Villa Somalia, cut non-existent diplomatic ties with Guinea Conakry because the latter accorded what looks like official reception to the Somaliland delegation led by its President. The diplomatic row may be inconsequential, but it illustrates how successive governments of Somalia hold African states and the wider international community hostage to their failed irredentist project of Greater Som
News Ethiopia Somali: Shouldn't Ethiopia Recognize Somaliland?
Ethiopia's official position that the territorial integrity of the Somali Republic (1960 – 1991) should not be violated is indirectly predicated on violation of its own territorial integrity. ...
News Ethiopia Somali: UN warns of humanitarian crisis in drought-stricken Somalia
The US-funded network warned more than 42 million people in Ethiopia, South Sudan, Somalia, Sudan, Kenya, Uganda and nearby Yemen were currently facing crisis levels of food insecurity. ...
News Ethiopia Somali: United States Jumps into Somalia Oil Fray, too
In opposition to this line up, the US, Ethiopia and the Somali Federal Government did not want a Robow win. They considered the options of convincing him to step down as a candidate, or arresting ...
News Ethiopia Somali: How to End the Civil War in Somalia: Negotiate with al-Shabaab
The transnational nature of al-Shabaab’s threat will require African Union and regional participation in final negotiations to assure that a negotiated settlement provides security to Kenya, Uganda, ...
News Ethiopia Somali: Ethiopia: Somali Region Unilaterally Withdraws From 2014 Agreement Transfering Three Kebeles to Afar Region, Beefs Up Security
In an extraordinary meeting it held on May 03 in Jigjiga city, the cabinet of Somali Regional State unilaterally withdrew from a 2014 agreement transfering three twons to Afar regional state and ...
News Ethiopia Somali: Ethiopia's Somali, Afar regions spar over 2014 agreement
Even as federal forces were late last week deployed to contain ethnic violence in northern Ethiopia, there are reports of heated exchanges brewing between two regions in the country’s east. The Afar ...
