By Olivia Rumble A few days after his inauguration last year, US President Donald Trump announced his intention to withdraw the country from the Paris Agreement for a second time. Last week, and almost exactly a year later, he followed this with an announcement that the country would also leave the United Nations Framework Convention...
(ERGO)– Nearly 2,000 families are facing hunger and lack of water in villages in Alula district, after two devastating failed rainy seasons across Puntland, including in the far northernmost tip of Bari region. The prolonged drought has forced families to abandon their homes and livelihoods, triggering widespread displacement and humanitarian distress. Many animals have perished...
ISTANBUL– Around 50 migrants died when their boat sank in the central Mediterranean, the Times of Malta reported late Sunday, citing a survivor’s account. Malta’s armed forces told the newspaper that a man was rescued from the sea by a cargo ship off Tunisia on Friday and was later brought to Malta for medical treatment....
Al Jazeera Further east, the UK has officially backed the territorial integrity of Somalia – while holding a stake in a strategic port in the breakaway region of Somaliland that it does not recognise. These decisions and moves by the UK, say analysts, raise doubts about whether its words are in keeping with its actions...
(ERGO) – More than 50 women in the coastal town of Marka, southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, who made a living from traditional house plastering using a mixture of mud and animal dung, have been put out of work by the drought and forced into deepening poverty. The plastering work, passed down through generations of women,...
By Rebecca Santana WASHINGTON (AP) — Federal immigration officers are asserting sweeping power to forcibly enter people’s homes without a judge’s warrant, according to an internal Immigration and Customs Enforcement memo obtained by The Associated Press, marking a sharp reversal of longstanding guidance meant to respect constitutional limits on government searches. The memo authorizes ICE officers to use force...
(Reuters) – The Trump administration has started an immigration enforcement operation in Maine, a state home to several refugee communities, including Somalis, one current immigration official and one former official said, the latest place targeted by President Donald Trump’s crackdown. More than 100 agents arrived in the frigid Northeast state this week, the two officials...
Al Jazeera Somalia is facing a deepening health and nutrition emergency as consecutive failed rainy seasons, soaring water prices and sharp cuts to humanitarian aid drive a surge in malnutrition and outbreaks of preventable diseases, Doctors Without Borders, known by its French acronym MSF, warns. The organisation said on Tuesday that its teams in Somalia...
By Wilo Abdulle Osman Somalia stands at a perilous crossroads where a generational humanitarian emergency and deep-seated political dysfunction have converged to threaten the very fabric of the nation’s sovereignty. As the world watches, the country teeters on the edge of irreversible fragmentation, driven by a “catastrophic convergence” of climate change, systemic corruption, and a...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — Senegal erupted in joy Sunday night after the West African country’s soccer team defeated Morocco 1-0 to win the Africa Cup of Nations. Across the capital Dakar, fireworks lit up the sky, horns blared and people of all ages chanted and danced in the streets, dressed in national colors and holding Senegalese...