MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — A passenger aircraft carrying 55 people overran the runway at Somalia’s main airport and ended up in shallow water at a nearby beach Tuesday during an emergency landing following a technical problem shortly after takeoff. There were no injuries from the emergency landing at Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle International Airport, and the...
NPR News Dozens of asylum cases filed by Somali migrants in immigration courts were suddenly rescheduled and recategorized over the weekend, according to four lawyers interviewed by NPR. NPR has learned that lawyers across at least three states, Minnesota, Illinois and Nebraska, received notices starting Friday night that moved up hearings for their clients to...
By Hussien Mohamed Yusuf I have read the piece by Osman A. Hassan, Inherited Suspicion: Colonial Violence, State Terror, and the Making of Second-Class Somali Kenyans in the NFD/NEP, published on WardheerNews, just one day after my first-ever visit to Mandera town. The timing was striking. I had returned from a short vsit that left...
(ERGO) – The influx of more than 5,000 pastoralists families whose livestock died in the drought have overwhelmed the local authorities in the small town of Godinlabe, in central Somalia’s Galgadud region, and left the families themselves facing stark conditions. The secretary of Godinlabe administration, Abdirahman Abdullahi, told Radio Ergo that having so many new arrivals...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Beyond the car windows being smashed, people tackled on city streets — or even a little child with a floppy bunny ears snowcap detained — the images of masked federal officers has become a flashpoint in the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement operations. Not in recent U.S. memory has an American policing operation so consistently masked its thousands of officers...
(ERGO)– Nearly sixty farmers living in the Ooda-gooye area on the outskirts of Lascaanood district in the Sool region are facing a difficult life as a result of crops they planted on credit and lost. A combination of unknown pests and lack of water destroyed onions, tomatoes, peppers, beetroot, watermelon and other vegetables, which they planted...
SHOMPOLE, Kenya, (Reuters) – The dozens of cow and goat carcasses scattered around Maria Katanga’s family compound testify to the grinding impact of an ongoing drought on Kenya’s pastoralist communities who rely on livestock for survival. Since August, the 24-year-old Maasai herder has lost more than 100 cattle and 300 goats to drought – and...
GENEVA– The UN refugee agency said Wednesday that it was “deeply saddened” after at least 15 people died in a shipwreck off Chios island in Greece, urging transparency. UNHCR said the accident also injured 24 others, including children, women and men. While the circumstances surrounding the shipwreck are still being established, it stressed the need...
By Nuradin Aden Dirie We are currently in the grip of the Jilaal season. Across the Bay, Bakool, and Gedo regions, the reservoirs are drying, and the familiar, tragic cycle of displacement has begun. In Mogadishu, politicians are busy calculating the 4.5 formula for the upcoming election, while in the countryside, our people are calculating...
(ERGO) – More than a year after war broke out in the remote Almiskad mountains in Somalia’s Puntland state, Mahado Cilmi Matan – a widow with 11 children to support – is still displaced from her home and living on the edge without any income. She stays with her children in Hariro in a fragile shelter...