In the developing world, basic healthcare is often a challenge — let alone expensive medical screening or tests for easily treatable, preventable illnesses. (more…)

This was the scene today as two million Muslims from around the world began gathering at Mount Arafat for the highlight of the hajj pilgrimage to Saudi Arabia dedicated to prayers and reflection. (more…)

“We want help. My brother, my brother, we are dead!” These are the calls of a group of migrants, trapped in Libya and circulated on Facebook. (more…)

“We want help. My brother, my brother, we are dead!” (more…)

A JUDGE has praised the actions of neighbours who risked their own safety to protect a Somali woman who was being attacked by her former partner with a machete. (more…)

NAIROBI, Aug. 28 (Xinhua) -- Kenya's Gross Domestic Product (GDP) will expand by at least ten percent if all the Horn of Africa states join the World Trade Organization (WTO), a senior Kenyan government official said on Monday. (more…)

MOGADISHU -- Somali Prime Minister Hassan Khaire has ordered his ministers to avoid using the social media to comment on sensitive political developments. (more…)


A senior commander in al Shabaab, Somalia's al Qaeda-affiliated rebels, was killed last month in a US airstrike, the group said on Saturday in an online statement. (more…)

Mogadishu - Somali officials said on Friday they had killed eight jihadist fighters during an overnight operation, denying claims from local elders that they had shot civilians dead, two of them children. (more…)