By Lisa Schlein GENEVA – The U.N. office for the coordination of humanitarian affairs, OCHA, reports an estimated 2.7 million Somalis will face severe food shortages over the coming months as drought conditions affect more areas in the country. Somalia’s … Continued
On Monday, the United Nations’s highest court is due to begin hearings on a maritime boundary dispute between Somalia and Kenya, after years of delays in a case that has strained the neighbours’ diplomatic relations. Scheduled to run until March … Continued
Kenya will not take part in Monday’s hearings over its maritime border dispute with Somalia at the International Court of Justice, government sources have told the BBC. Kenya accuses the ICJ of bias in the case, which concerns a 62,000 … Continued
Dar es Salaam — Tanzanian President John Magufuli, Africa’s most prominent Covid-19 denier, disappeared from public sight 17 days ago. Now, he is widely rumored to be seriously ill with the same virus that he has dismissed and downplayed over … Continued
Community leader Shukri Olow [Shuu-kree Oh-low] recently announced that she is running for King County Council District Five, which includes all or parts of Kent, SeaTac, Tukwila, Burien, Normandy Park, Des Moines, and Renton. If elected, Shukri would be the … Continued
A thousand students living in one of the largest internal displacement camps in Ethiopia’s Somali region have been out of school for almost a year due to COVID19 restrictions, which have also led to growing food shortages among the camp … Continued
BY PHILIPPE RATER The UN Security Council on Friday adopted a resolution extending the mandate of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia until December, and called on Somali authorities to hold elections “without further delay.” The 13-page text drafted … Continued
Former Somali State Minister for Presidential Affairs Abdulkadir Moallim Noor, center, prays over the body of former president Ali Mahdi Mohamed, who died of COVID-19 earlier this week in neighboring Kenya, at a state funeral held at the airport in … Continued
Poor rain forecast for the next few months threatens to exacerbate the plight of tens of thousands of Somalis displaced from their homes and villages due to “extreme” water shortages since last November, the UN humanitarian office said on Friday. … Continued
Fadumo Mohamed Gelle and her husband Ali Hussein, both blind, elderly, and displaced, have been forced to beg in the streets of the central Somali town of Abudwaq, after losing their lifeline support that used to be sent by a … Continued
John Van Trieste Taiwan is set to help the government of Somaliland with its efforts to go digital. Taiwan’s representative office in Somaliland and Somaliland’s Ministry of Telecommunications and Technology signed an agreement on cooperation in the fields of information … Continued
Ankara can ‘work with any candidate who becomes Somalia’s next president’ as political turmoil ongoing, says Turkish expert Handan Kazancı ISTANBUL, Turkey is playing a key role in Somalia even amid a political stalemate in the Horn of Africa country … Continued
