(ERGO) – More than 170 children in Maleelay 1 settlement, near the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya’s Garissa county, are unable to attend school due to a shortage of teachers and limited education facilities. Parents and community leaders say the only school in the settlement offers classes only up to grade six and has just three...
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...
By Osman A. Hassan Wajir, the principal town of Wajir County in Kenya’s former Northern Frontier District (NFD), stands today not merely as a geographical location but as a living colonial archive, an urban space where the legacies of empire have not faded into history but instead continue to structure daily life, governance, mobility, and...
ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia (AP) — Disastrous landslides that struck southern Ethiopia following a week of heavy rains have killed at least 50 people and left 125 others missing, an official said Thursday. The landslides happened in recent days in the Gamo Zone districts of Gacho Baba, Kamba and Bonke, said Mesfin Manuqa, the Gamo Zone...
(ERGO) – Hundreds of farming families who fled villages in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle that have been hotly contested in the government’s war on Al-Shabab are facing a daily struggle for food and water. The families left villages including Mushani, Garilow, and Barire in November 2025, as fighting between government forces, African Union troops, and Al-Shabab...
By Abdinoor Ibrahim Noor Abstract This article interrogates the severe political crisis that has engulfed Somalia following the February 2026 collapse of electoral negotiations between the Federal Government and the opposition Somali Future Council. The nation confronts a perilous choice between a logistically unachievable one-person-one-vote (OPOV) election and reverting to discredited indirect models that have...
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...
By Faisal A. Roble This essay is both historical, an appreciation note, and a nod to the concept of “Oodi Abka dhow” or when loosely translated, “proximity is thicker than blood.” has any relevance, this story is a good example. Context: On March 2, 2026, while the world was busy with the Israeli/US vs. Iran...
ISTANBUL (AA)- Kenyan police have rescued 70 foreign nationals, mostly Ethiopians, who were being held in a house in Nairobi by a suspected human trafficking ring, police said on Thursday. Following a tip-off, officers freed the foreign nationals, including 66 Ethiopians and four Eritreans, who were confined in a house in Ruai area, police said...
MOGADISHU, 3 March 2026- The Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) is deeply dismayed by the killing of local Somali journalist Abshir Khalif Shidane in Kismayo, Jubaland State, on the evening of Monday, 2 March 2026, by a Jubaland state police officer. At around 7:30 PM local time, Abshir was driving from his home toward the city center when...