Mudug (Ergo)- Pastoralist families left behind in Dajimaale village in Somalia’s central Mudug region are facing severe food and water shortages after three consecutive years of failed rains destroyed their livestock and dried up the water wells. Most residents have migrated away in search of water and pasture, but more than 100 families, largely comprising...
(ERGO) – Aqbal Adawa Haji has been struggling to feed her nine children and relied in the central Somali city of Dusamareb, as displacement left her without any source of income. Now she’s collecting discarded metal from neighbourhoods across the town, earning $4 to $6 a day selling the scrap to local companies. It might not...
(ERGO)– More than 2,800 students in Qallaafe zone in Ethiopia’s Somali Region have been out of school since April after flooding from the Shabelle River forced families from their homes and destroyed schools, farms, businesses, and water sources. The floods closed 18 free primary and secondary schools in Qallaafe and surrounding villages in Shabelle zone, leaving...
BIRAO, Central African Republic (AP) — The agony began for Maude Ahmad Fadala shortly after sunset. Her baby was coming. She was in a refugee camp, weakened by typhoid. There were no camp facilities for what was about to happen, and she had no money to travel. She struggled to her feet and started walking....
GENEVA- The World Health Organization (WHO) and the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) launched a joint Ebola response plan on Friday, requiring $518 million to contain a rapidly expanding outbreak in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and prevent further regional spread. WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, speaking after returning from...
KINSHASA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization has arrived in Congo’s capital, Kinshasa, to support efforts against an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola virus, as medical personnel struggle with a lack of equipment, a distrustful population and armed groups in a volatile region. The World Health Organization said Friday authorities have...
Mogadishu (WDN) – The recurring Ebola outbreaks across Africa continue to pose a major public health threat, exposing the fragility of healthcare systems globally, particularly across many African countries with limited medical and emergency response capacity. Somalia, with its fragile health infrastructure, porous borders, and weak institutional capacity, faces a serious and growing risk from...
Ten African nations are “at risk” of the Ebola virus disease outbreak following an outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) warned on Saturday. The ten countries include Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Angola, Burundi, the Central African Republic, the Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, South Sudan and...
KIGALI, Rwanda- Felicien Kabuga, accused of financing the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, died in a hospital in The Hague, Netherlands, the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT) announced Saturday. In a statement, the mechanism said the medical officer of the United Nations Detention Unit (UNDU) was immediately notified, while Dutch authorities...
More than 120 teachers who were educating the children of displaced families in the southern Somali city of Baidoa are out of work and struggling to support their families after aid cuts forced the closure of eight schools. The schools in internal displacement camps in Bookay area north of Baidoa were providing education to around...