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As Somalia withered from drought early this year, and her goats dropped dead from thirst, Maka Abdi Ali begged for rain. (more…)

ADDIS ABABA - Desert locusts are destroying tens of thousands of hectares of crops and grazing land in Somalia in the worst invasion in 25 years, the United Nations food agency said on Wednesday, and the infestation is likely to spread further. (more…)

Four years of a brutal civil war in Yemen has forced more than 4.3 million people to leave their homes. Many of the Yemenis desperately seeking safety are turning to neighboring Somalia. (more…)

MOGADISHU-- Two UN agencies said Friday some 5,087 Somali refugees have so far returned home from Yemen since it started an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) program in 2017. (more…)

MOGADISHU — Four civilians and a soldier were killed when heavily-armed Somali militants attacked an army base north of the capital, military sources and witnesses said on Thursday. (more…)

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Intelligence officials in Somalia say an airstrike conducted by the U.S. military in the country’s south killed a senior extremist of the al-Shabab rebel group. (more…)

Twelve-year-old Shukri Abdi drowned in June in the River Irwell in Bury, Lancashire (more…)

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…)

Uganda suffers deadly landslides as tropical storm heading for the Somali coast raises fears of new floods. (more…)

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…)