By Stephen Astariko A prolonged dry spell has ravaged Wajir in the last three months with fears of adverse effects on both residents and their livestock. The Kenya Meteorological Department in early March predicted a below-normal rainfall for the March to May season. In some subcounties, no rain was recorded. The situation is so bad...
May 1, 2025
Category: Somali News & Politics
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Minnesotans inspired by Somali-Canadian journalist killed in terrorist attack
Somali-Canadian activist went back to broadcast “the other side of Somalia.” By Maya Rao Fadumo Ali believed that Somali-Canadian journalist and activist Hodan Nalayeh had a message of hope and empowerment for women. She had followed all of Nalayeh’s dispatches about Somalia on TV and social media, and drew inspiration from her frequent hashtag NaagIskaDhig...
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3 Al-Shabaab terrorists killed in foiled IED attack on border patrol police
NAIROBI, Kenya, Police have killed three suspected terrorists following an Improvised Explosives Device (IED) attack on a road along the Kiunga-Somalia border within Lamu. Two police officers on patrol in the area were injured after the explosive device planted by the terrorists in the area detonated on Monday. Witnesses said the militants hid in the...
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The US is quietly waging war in Somalia — and Trump has made it worse
After all, the militant groups Al-Shabaab and the Islamic State in Somalia (ISS) pose no threat to the US. They’re actually fighting each other. But apparently the president hasn’t grasped that Jerrod A Laber Only two civilians have been killed or injured in the entirety of the US’s bombing campaign of Somalia — that is, according...
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Scramble for Horn of Africa by Gulf, Orient, Western and African interests
By FRED OLUOCH The self-declared republic of Somaliland is the latest diplomatic and economic battleground in the Horn of Africa. It pits interests from the Gulf, the West, the Mediterranean and Africa, from Kenya and Ethiopia to Guinea. What started as a tweet by Kenya’s Foreign Affairs Principal Secretary Macharia Kamau on May 27 has...
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Group wants Kenya and Somalia case stopped
Geoffrey Mosoku A group of 20 individuals want Kenya to decline participating in a court case that has been filed at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) involving a maritime border dispute with Somalia. The group has argued that the case violates Kenya’s Constitution. Through their spokesperson Kiriro wa Ngugi, the applicants begun by filing...
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REACHING FADUMA
Tara Brace-John CHILDREN FROM NOMADIC COMMUNITIES AND LIFE-SAVING HEALTHCARE I met Faduma on a recent trip to the Somali region of Ethiopia. She’s five years old, the youngest of six children in a nomadic Somali family. None of them have ever been vaccinated. Faduma’s father, who gave me permission to speak to her and to...
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Edmonton scholarship to be awarded in slain journalists’s name Social Sharing
Nobody can replace her but I hope somebody will stand up and fill up her spot’ Thandiwe Konguavi She showcased positive aspects of Somali communities in Canada and in Somalia. And now a new Edmonton scholarship aims to continue the legacy of Somali-Canadian reporter Hodan Nalayeh. “Nobody can replace her but I hope somebody will stand up...
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This was once Africa’s largest cathedral, but its “throne” cannot be filled
Mogadishu’s first bishop was also its (so far) last, as the Somali capital has endured decades of chaos. We remember his death 30 years on … By Ray Cavanaugh When Mogadishu Cathedral opened in 1928, it was the largestcathedral in Africa. Built in three years and designed in a Norman Gothic style by architect Antonio Vandone di Cortemilia,...
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Afghanistan Exports Medical Equipment To Somalia
Officials said that another cargo of Afghan goods will be sent to Somalia within the next few days. fghanistan has exported different types of medical equipment and hygiene products to Somalia for the first time as officials say the local firms’ capacity has increased. One container of the first shipment of Afghan goods, carrying 25...