GENEVA– More than 1 million people have returned to Sudan’s capital Khartoum over the past 10 months despite widespread insecurity and collapsing services, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said on Tuesday. The Sudan Return Monitoring Snapshot recorded returns between November 2024 and September 2025, as families moved back from other parts of the country...
CAIRO (AP) — A domestic passenger flight landed at Khartoum International Airport in Sudan’s capital on Wednesday for the first time since the war broke out over two years ago, potentially marking the gradual reopening of air traffic. Sudan’s media and culture ministry confirmed a Badr Airlines flight from Port Sudan landed. The airport previously received flights...
By Ahmed Abbas Ahmed The life of the late Ali Farah Farmayeeri stands as a shining example of integrity, intellect, and unwavering service to the Somali nation. Born in 1947 in the beautiful coastal district of Qandala, in today’s Puntland State of Somalia, Ali’s journey from a humble beginning to becoming one of Puntland’s most...
(ERGO) – Establishing a water storage system that promises better water access in a perennially drought-hit part of southern Bay region has also brought welcome employment for impoverished displaced families. The water project that began in Qansahdhere district in July has given manual labour jobs to around 1,260 people, enabling them to earn $80 a month...
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A large mushroom farm near the Kenyan capital of Nairobi is one of a kind: It grows fungi on an industrial scale — not as food for restaurants but as a building material that some Kenyans say could make more people homeowners. The farm produces mycelium, the root structure of mushrooms that a...
LONDON (Reuters) -The closure of the U.S. Agency for International Development earlier this year hit Somalia’s economy and tax revenues, the head of the country’s development bank said on Tuesday. “In Somalia (it) really impacted our GDP,” Hodan Osman, president of the Somali Development and Reconstruction Bank told the Financial Times Africa Summit in London...
By Dr Zakariya Weyrax Warsame An essay on a people whose unity sleeps beneath the surface until the sacred is stirred. I have watched them from afar, scattered across continents, and I have watched them at home, in the sun-bleached heart of the Horn of Africa. Always the same truth emerges: there is no people...
(ERGO) – Free schools supported by the Galmudug education authority failed to open in several parts of Adado district this academic year due to a funding shortfall. Around 450 students from pastoralist families in the rural areas of Gelinsor, Wadgelinsoor, Far-janno, and Qurdubanle were unable to go to school when classes were supposed to start in...
Galkacyo (WDN) – Galkacyo a major commercial hub in central Somalia that connects the north and south of the country, has seen a surge in clan disputes. The Puntland government is preparing a strong response to clan-based violence in Galkacyo, signaling a broader push to restore law and order in the Mudug region. Governor Faisal...
ROME, (Reuters) – Almost 14 million people in countries including Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of Congo, Haiti, Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan, risk severe hunger due to cuts in global humanitarian aid, the United Nations World Food Programme has warned. The WFP’s biggest donor, the United States, has slashed its foreign aid under President Donald Trump,...