BUNIA, Congo (AP) — The head of the World Health Organization on Tuesday expressed concern over the “scale and speed” of an outbreak of a rare type of Ebola known as Bundibugyo in eastern Congo, where authorities reported 134 suspected deaths and more than 500 suspected cases. The virus spread undetected for weeks after the first known...
Federal prosecutors are asking a judge to sentence Feeding Our Future founder Aimee Bock to 50 years in prison, arguing that she led a fraud scheme that was “brazen and staggering” and “deliberately exploited a public program designed to feed children during one of the most vulnerable periods in a generation.” Bock, 45, is among...
NAIROBI (Xinhua) — African parliamentarians on Friday began a three-day meeting in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, to explore ways of reducing methane emissions while safeguarding economic growth. The conference, the first-ever regional meeting in Africa dedicated specifically to methane, is organized by the Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) and the Parliament of Kenya, in cooperation with Climate...
PUNTLAND, Somalia (AP) — Most of Abdi Ahmed Farah’s hundreds of goats have died. It has not rained steadily in this part of Somalia for three years, something the 70-year-old never thought possible. He is in debt from buying water. The reservoir outside his tent is nearly empty. His family is down to one meal a day:...
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,...