Somaliland has launched a biometric registration system for the its security forces as part of a government move to modernize ...

The Horn of Africa in recent years has emerged as a theater of growing geopolitical competition, as world great powers are rushing to entrench their interests in a region that is so vital to world ...

Carton de Wiart died in 1963 at the age of 83, but his exploits have inspired generations of service members in the United ...

Somalia's Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre replaced his defence minister with the Minister of Commerce and Industry Jibril ...

Restoring access to the Red Sea is a burning ambition for Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, who told parliament in 2023: ...

At the macro level, the Ethiopian federal government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and the National Defense Forces (ENDF) are fighting the Oromo Liberation Army (OLA), with the government ...

In recent months, tensions have increased in the Horn of Africa after Somaliland, a breakaway entity from Somalia not recognised by any country, agreed to lease 20 kilometres of its coast for 50 ...

Al-Shabaab and ISIS continue their deadly campaigns, a demoralized national army is ill-equipped and fragmented, and clan warfare persists with no end in sight. Meanwhile, climate change has deepened ...

Tensions between the neighbouring countries mounted last year after landlocked Ethiopia struck a deal to lease a stretch of coastline from Somalia’s breakaway region of Somaliland. Ethiopia ...

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un urged the development of a strong, modern army while visiting military academies, as North Korea supports Russia's war in Ukraine. He criticized poor management at the ...

Addis Abeba- The governments of Somalia and Ethiopia have welcomed the understanding reached between the Somali National Army (SNA ... of Understanding (MoU) with Somaliland, which Somalia ...

Somaliland (1991–present): Somaliland presents ... and infrastructure development plans. The Arakan Army’s territorial gains and its governance ability have positioned the AA/ULA well to ...