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...
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...