MOGADISHU (Reuters) – Somalia has signed a $306.5 million debt relief deal with the Arab Monetary Fund (AMF), in what the government in Mogadishu called a critical milestone in its economic reform programme. The Horn of Africa country’s government is trying to revive its economy after it was battered by decades of civil war. It...
Bosaso (WDN)— Puntland authorities are sounding the alarm over a looming drought following warnings from the Puntland Land and Water Data Agency (IMAC), which announced that the region is experiencing delayed and below-average spring rainfall, a troubling sign for the year ahead. The much-anticipated Gu’ rains, which usually begin in late March and play a...
Mogadishu (WDN)— Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre has issued a directive mandating all government and non-governmental agencies providing essential services to link service delivery to the national identity system. The Prime Minister chaired a high-level meeting in Mogadishu today, focused on the nationwide implementation of the digital national ID, where he formally unveiled the...
(ERGO) – Shifting sand dunes have forced 150 families from their homes, destroying their livelihoods in Midnimo settlement north of Kismayo, in Lower Juba region. These families include those repatriated back to Somalia from Kenyan refugee camps and others who have been internally displaced within the region. Hamdi Muhumed Hilowle, a former refugee from Kenya, had...
NAIROBI, Kenya — A German nurse abducted while working in Somalia seven years ago has pleaded with the German government to secure her release as security in the country continues to be fluid after an attempted assassination on the president by al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabab militants. In a video shared on social media, a visibly distressed Sonja...
Ergo- One thousand five hundred families in Ali-Waal area of Mudug region, central Somalia, are facing dire living conditions due to the loss of most of their livestock over the past three months. This has happened because of the lack of pasture and water following two and a half years of poor rainfall. Abdullahi Mohamed...
Addis Abeba– Eight survivors of the Tigray war have filed a criminal complaint with the German Federal Public Prosecutor, accusing twelve senior Ethiopian and Eritrean government and military officials of committing “war crimes and crimes against humanity,” according to their legal representatives. The complaint was prepared by Legal Action Worldwide (LAW) and Dr. Anna Oehmichen,...
(ERGO) – Since fleeing conflict in their home area in Erigabo in December 2024, Hibaq Ahmed Mohamed and her seven children all squeeze at night into the tiny two-metre square room lent to them by a family they know in Badhan. Hibaq, with two disabled children and an elderly disabled husband, manages to put together one...
(ERGO) – Zeynab Abdullahi Hussein was turned away from her labouring work on a small farm on the outskirts of Baidoa in southern Somalia in January, due to the prolonged drought and hot weather. She is one of hundreds who normally get paid for farm work, ploughing, harvesting, and watering the fields. The lack of rain...
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Record greenhouse gas levels helped bring temperatures to an all-time high in 2024, accelerating glacier and sea ice loss, raising sea levels and edging the world closer to a key warming threshold, the U.N. weather body said on Wednesday. Annual average mean temperatures stood at 1.55 degrees Celsius (2.79 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial...