UN News- This number includes women and children and comes after more than a decade of prolonged conflict between internationally recognised government forces and Houthi separatist fighters who control the capital, Sana’a, as well as epidemics, climate shocks and funding cuts. UN data shows that 22.3 million people need aid relief and protection services across...
ROME (AP) — Bodies washing ashore day after day. Phone calls from relatives going unanswered. Migrants’ tents abandoned overnight. Migrants trying to reach Europe are vanishing in droves in what are known as “invisible shipwrecks” but governments responsible for search and rescue are withholding information about what they know. The beginning of 2026 ranks as...
For east African neighbours Kenya and Somalia, the effects of climate change are worlds apart, with one country suffering drought and the other deadly flooding. On the outskirts of Baidoa, southern Somalia, 38-year-old pastoralist Asha Hassan walks several kilometres each morning to find water for the few goats she has left. Two years ago, she...
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The war in the Middle East has reduced Kenyan meat exports to the region to below 5% of the expected level during the peak Ramadan season as a sharp increase in air freight costs grounds shipments, industry officials told Reuters. The Middle East is Kenya’s main market for meat exports, with the...
NAIROBI (Xinhua) — The number of people killed by flooding triggered by heavy rains in Kenya has risen to 62, the government said Friday. The Ministry of Interior and National Administration said the victims comprise 46 men, eight women, and eight children. “Nairobi recorded the highest number of deaths with 33, followed by the Eastern...
(ERGO) – The introduction of charges for water that should be free has caused displaced families living in a camp in central Somalia’s Mudug region to go short of water and food, after a borehole improvement plan went awry. Diaspora donors raised $17,000 to drill a new borehole for families in Khay-door IDP camp near Ba’adweyn....
Taxes, regulations could further destabilize Somalia By Atra Mohamed, Minnesota Reformer Since the start of Operation Metro Surge in December, the Trump administration has waged an economic battle on the Somali community, using the threat of detention — including of legal residents, citizens, as well as refugees who had their temporary protected status revoked —...
Pan African Visions Failure of the last rainy season across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia is triggering a food and water emergency for millions of people still trying to recover from the longest and most severe recorded drought spanning from 2020 to 2023 during which five rainy seasons in a row failed. Dry wells, soaring water...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — At least 25 people have died after flash flooding in the Kenyan capital caused flight disruption and left motorists stranded for hours. George Seda, the police chief in Nairobi, said some of the victims were drowned and others were electrocuted. He warned that the death toll may rise as search and rescue operations continue....
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — When Senegalese farmer Pape Fall first downloaded TikTok, it was to watch football and funny videos. In the last two years, however, he’s experimented with it to promote his produce and now sells most of it via the platform. A looped video on his TikTok profile shows a pile of cucumbers...