MOGADISHU-- The UN food agency said northeastern parts of Somalia experienced extreme weather in the past two days as a tropical storm made landfall. (more…)
Risk of more flooding and landslides as rains batter East Africa
Uganda suffers deadly landslides as tropical storm heading for the Somali coast raises fears of new floods. (more…)
Is the partnership between Qatar and Somalia beginning to fray?
Somali officials were surprised to hear Qatar dignitaries speaking unkindly about Turkey and suggesting that the government of Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed should wind down their cooperation with Ankara and throw all their efforts into a bolder relationship with Qatar. (more…)
Somali Survivors Recall Hotel Bombing 10 Years Late
WASHINGTON - Ten years ago on December 3, a suicide bomber attacked a graduation ceremony at Shamo Hotel, one of Mogadishu’s main hotels. (more…)
Save the Children: Climate Crisis Causing Hunger for Millions of Africans
LONDON - Millions of people in southern and eastern Africa are facing emergency food insecurity partly caused by climate change, half of them children, according to the charity Save the Children. (more…)
AMISOM commits to peaceful 2020/21 polls in Somalia
MOGADISHU-- The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has reiterated its commitment to ensuring that Somalia holds peaceful parliamentary and presidential elections in 2020/2021. (more…)
Somali Refugee Leads US Pediatric Clinic that Gave Her a Healthy Outlook
Dr. Anisa Ibrahim, who came to the United States as a child refugee, this fall became medical director of a pediatric clinic in Seattle, Washington. (more…)
East Africa Struggles With Heavy Rains, With More to Come
NAIROBI - Flash flooding has hit the small but strategic East African nation of Djibouti, where the government and United Nations said the equivalent of two years' rain fell in a single day. Several regional countries including Kenya are struggling after heavy rains, with more to come. (more…)
‘Devastating’ fire swept through Minneapolis apartment building, killing 5 and injuring 3
MINNEAPOLIS — A fire swept through a Minneapolis high-rise apartment building early Wednesday, killing five people and sending three others to the hospital, officials said. (more…)
Somali, AU call for an end to violence against women in conflict
MOGADISHU-- A public awareness forum held in Mogadishu on Tuesday called for an end to violence against women in conflict in Somalia. (more…)