Police officers stand near the bodies of alleged al Shabaab militants who have been killed after the siege at the Mogadishu Municipality Headquaters in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Jan 22, 2023. (PHOTO / AFP) MOGADISHU – Top leaders of Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya on Wednesday agreed to begin "search and destroy" operations to push al Shabaab militants […]
Somali soldiers walk at Sanguuni military base, about 450 km south of Mogadishu, Somalia, on June 13, 2018. (MOHAMED ABDIWAHAB / AFP) MOGADISHU – Somali National Army (SNA) killed 21 al-Shabab militants and injured several others after al-Shabab militants raided a military base in central Somalia early Tuesday. Chief of Defense Forces Odowaa Yusuf Rage […]
Buulaay Ibrahim (left), 75, an internally displaced person who fled her village due to an increase in violence, sits at Limaan Camp in Mogadishu on Dec 6, 2022 in front of her makeshift tent. (HASSAN ALI ELMI / AFP) MOGADISHU – More than 200,000 Somalis are suffering catastrophic food shortages and many are dying of […]
United Nations Under-Secretary-General for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief coordinator Martin Griffiths attends a press conference in Geneva on Dec 1, 2021. (FABRICE COFFRINI / AFP) NEW YORK – The United Nations will ask for 25 percent more money in 2023 to fund humanitarian aid operations globally, the UN aid chief told a Reuters NEXT event on […]
Security personnel and ambulances are stationed near destroyed and damaged buildings after an car bombing targeted the education ministry in Mogadishu on Oct 29, 2022. (HASSAN ALI ELMI / AFP) MOGADISHU – Somalia, the African Union and the United Nations have condemned the twin car bomb explosions that targeted Somalia's education ministry building here on […]
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi speaks at a press conference in Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 25, 2022. (BRIAN INGANGA / AP) GENEVA – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi on Tuesday called on world leaders to spare no efforts in assisting countries in the Horn of Africa to break the cycle […]
Media report in front of destored building after a deadly 30-hour siege by the al Shabaab group at Hayat Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia on Aug 21, 2022. (HASSAN ALI ELMI / AFP) MOGADISHU – The US military said on Wednesday it had killed 27 fighters from the al Shabaab militant group in an air strike […]
Somali children displaced by drought and showing symptoms of Kwashiorkor, a severe protein malnutrition causing swelling and skin lesions, sit with their mothers at a malnutrition stabilization center in Mogadishu, Somalia, June 5, 2022. (FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH / AP) GENEVA – The number of young children in Somalia facing severe acute malnutrition has increased to […]
Somali children who fled drought-stricken areas stand by their makeshift shelters at a camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia on Sept 3, 2022. (FARAH ABDI WARSAMEH / AP) GENEVA/MOGADISHU – Hundreds of children have died in nutrition centers across Somalia, the UN children's agency (UNICEF) said on Tuesday, a day after […]
Women walk towards an open-air market in the village of Wagalla in northern Kenya on Aug 19, 2022. (BRIAN INGANGA / AP) GENEVA – The worst drought in the Horn of Africa in more than 40 years looks almost certain to persist after the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Friday that forecasts for October-December […]
Ali Abdullahi Mohamed, a severely malnourished 27-month-old boy, is examined by a nurse for treatment in Banadir Maternity and Children Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia on June 1, 2022. Four consecutive seasons of poor rains have left millions of drought-stricken people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia facing starvation. (ED RAM / AFP) MOGADISHU – The number […]
Kenya's President, Uhuru Kenyatta delivers a speech during the 39th IGAD extraordinary summit in Nairobi on July 5, 2022. (TONY KARUMBA / AFP) NAIROBI – Kenyan and Somali leaders on Friday recommitted to fighting terrorism, tackling drought, and resuming cross-border trade as the two countries revitalize their engagement in all areas of mutual interest. In […]
Nunay Mohamed, 25, who fled the drought-stricken Lower Shabelle area, holds her one-year old malnourished child at a makeshift camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia, June 30, 2022. The crisis in Ukraine has abruptly drawn millions of dollars away from longer-running humanitarian crises and Somalia is perhaps the most vulnerable as […]