Doctors Without Borders Somalia and Ethiopia’s Somali region are on the front line of the climate crisis. After four consecutive failed rainy seasons, Somalia’s federal government declared a national drought emergency in November 2025. More than 6.5 million people, approximately 1 in every 4 Somalis, now face high levels of acute food insecurity, according to the widely used...
Mogadishu (WDN) – Questions are mounting over the arrest and detention of several young people from Dayniile District following clashes between residents and police forces during a violent confrontation in the Warlalis area, where locals reportedly resisted eviction efforts. The arrests come after tensions erupted in Dayniile following clashes between security forces and residents who...
Maryam watched her goats starve and her crops fail. She buried two of her children before she finally gave up hope and sought help from international aid agencies in southern Somalia. She left her village with her remaining six children, making the long journey along the Jubba River to one of a clutch of makeshift...
(ERGO) – A growing number of displaced women in Mogadishu are taking up physically demanding porter jobs in Mogadishu’s Bakara market to support their families, after losing their livelihoods to drought and conflict. The work carrying heavy goods for traders and customers offers small daily earnings that are often the only available source of income in...
Hargeisa (WDN)- A case that initially appeared to be a routine crackdown on medical fraud has taken a startling and deeply revealing turn in Hargeisa. A man identified as Sheham Osama was recently arrested by the Somaliland Ministry of Health, accused of forging medical credentials and falsely presenting himself as a qualified healthcare professional—an allegation...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — Years after a lead acid battery recycling plant shut down in Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa, residents of Owino Uhuru say they are still suffering from lead poisoning, a growing public health risk as Africa’s clean energy boom drives a surge in battery use. Faith Muthama, 40, a mother of four,...
(ERGO) – Thousands of farming families displaced by inter-clan conflict in parts of southern Somalia’s Bay region are facing worsening living conditions in camps around Baidoa and Bardale, after losing their farms, food stores, and homes. The families fled from Kurji, Kuusow, Duugsoy, Darab-Ajuuso, Moora-Qasaale and Buulo-Bilaan villages near Bardale in March, when fighting spread through...
The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises, released on Friday by an alliance of UN agencies, the European Union (EU) and partners, finds that 266 million people across 47 countries experienced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025 – nearly a quarter of the population analysed and almost double the share recorded in 2016. The report paints...
GENEVA: Drought displaced nearly 62,000 people in just five Somali districts since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, estimating that the countrywide number could be in the hundreds of thousands. The United Nations’ migration agency said that in the five out of Somalia’s 90 districts that it had surveyed, three out of...
AFCADDE, Ethiopia (AP) — The critical note in some of the world’s most well-known perfumes is myrrh, a tree resin from the Horn of Africa that is under pressure from what experts say has been a historic drought. Threatened by the lack of water and nibbled by starving livestock, the trees that once formed a dense...