U.S. Military Envisions More Bases Like Djibouti Facility

U.S. military wants more bases like Djibouti facility.

Refugees shovelling coal to help Christchurch

Former refugees from the Waikato are heading south to lend a hand.

Refugees lend helping hand to quake-hit city

Former refugees have dug in to help Christchurch's eastern suburbs.

Somaliland to pass central bank law within 3 weeks: cbank

HARGEISA (Reuters) - Somaliland's central bank governor said on Thursday parliament is expected to pass a law within three weeks that will formerly establish a central bank, paving the way for foreign commercial banks to start operating in the self-declared country by 2013. Somaliland, a breakaway state in the northeast of Somalia, remains unrecognised internationally. It has no formal banking ...

In Run-Up to Somalia Raid, Secrecy and Business As Usual

President Obama's business-as-usual demeanor as he delivered the State of the Union address on Tuesday evening masked a secret known only to him and a few others in the House chamber. Thousands of miles away, a strike team led by the Navy’s SEAL Team 6 were completing a successful operation to free two Western aid workers, an American and a Dane, held by Somali kidnappers since October. The U.S ...

Ethiopia seeks India's financial muscle for its rail project

Ethiopia wants $300 million more from India for an ambitious railway project that would connect it with neighbouring Djibouti.

US base plays key role in commando rescue

An austere Pentagon outpost in the hardscrabble desert proved ideal as a launching pad for the commando raid that freed two aid workers.

Somaliland set to establish Central Bank

Somaliland's central bank governor said parliament is expected to pass a law within three weeks that will formally establish a central bank, paving the way for foreign commercial banks to start operating in the self-declared country by 2013.

Government appoints first Somali ambassador since 1991

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Britain appointed its first ambassador to Somalia for 21 years on Thursday during a visit to the capital of the anarchic Horn of Africa nation by Foreign Secretary William Hague. It was the first visit to Mogadishu by a British foreign minister since 1992 and comes ahead of a conference in London this month to discuss measures to tackle instability in Somalia and piracy off ...

Visiting Ethiopia's khat boomtown

The Ethiopian town that is the khat capital of the world