ISTANBUL- Africa’s forests and woodlands, long considered a vital carbon sink, have become a net source of carbon due to deforestation and forest degradation, a new study published Friday in Scientific Reports showed. Researchers used high-resolution satellite data, validated with field measurements, to map changes in aboveground woody biomass across the continent from 2007 to...
(ERGO) – Hundreds of pastoralist and fishing families in Kulub village in central Somalia’s Mudug region are facing deepening hardship after massive sand encroachment forced them to abandon their homes. The community, now scattered across exposed open land on the outskirts of Kulub, lack proper shelter, water, and access to other essential services. The advancing sand...
DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The African Union suspended Guinea-Bissau following a military coup, saying it won’t tolerate unconstitutional changes. In a resolution adopted by the AU Peace and Security Council on Friday, the organization reiterated it has “zero tolerance on unconstitutional changes of government.” It moved to “immediately suspend the Republic of Guinea-Bissau from participating in all activities of...
JOHANNESBURG: The number of U.S. airstrikes against jihadi terrorists in Somalia has increased more than tenfold under the Trump administration so far this year, compared to missions carried out under President Biden in 2024. U.S. Africa Command (AFRICOM) confirmed to Fox News Digital on Friday that it conducted 10 airstrikes in 2024, and that so far...
By Conor Wight, CBS President Trump is now ordering that Somali green cards, along with green cards issued to 18 other countries of “concern,” be reexamined. It’s the latest move made by the president threatening the legal status of hundreds of Somali people in Minnesota, an issue that a right-wing activist claims came to his attention...
(ERGO) – As inter-clan conflict increases in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, hundreds of families forced to flee their homes in Dudumaaye, Gareeri, Beled Amani, and Awgaduud are living in difficult conditions on the outskirts of Wanlaweyn. Hussein Abdullahi Hussein, 47, who fled with his family of nine, said they are living fully exposed in an...
By Nick Lentz, CBS A 24-year-old man has been ordered by a federal judge to pay nearly $48 million in restitution and sentenced to 10 years in prison for his role in the largest pandemic fraud scheme in the U.S., the Department of Justice said Monday. Abdimajid Mohamed Nur of Shakopee, Minnesota, was one of the first 47...
By Vibhu Mishra, UN News, Global perspective Human stories On 10 November, the Federal Government of Somalia formally declared a drought emergency and appealed for urgent international assistance as conditions continued to deteriorate across northern, central and southern regions, according to the UN relief coordination office, OCHA. Puntland is among the worst affected areas, where authorities estimate that nearly...
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Wednesday that he is barring South Africa from participating in the Group of 20 summit next year at his Miami-area club and will stop all payments and subsidies to the country over its treatment of a U.S. government representative at this year’s global meeting. Trump chose not to...
(Reuters)- U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration has ordered a broad review of all refugees who entered under former President Joe Biden, an internal U.S. government memo seen by Reuters said, an unprecedented move that could reopen cases of thousands who sought U.S. protection. The order would apply to about 233,000 refugees who entered between January...