By Katy Migiro NAIROBI, Some 1.5 million Somalis have lost access to healthcare over the last two years as around 10 hospitals have closed or cut back their services due to aid shortages, relief agencies said on Monday. The figure includes 300,000 children under five who can no longer get vaccinated against major childhood killers...
November 15, 2026
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A 92kg cake for his 92nd birthday: Mugabe to celebrate with a £550,000 ‘thank you’ bash
By JOSEPH CURTIS Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe is to celebrate his 92nd birthday with a lavish party featuring a 92kg birthday cake. Next week’s £550,000 bash will be a ‘thank you’ for the world’s oldest head of state with banners and billboards seen carrying the slogan ‘Thank you, Bob, for giving us a voice to...
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Aid agency calls for funding to avert malnutrition in Somalia
MOGADISHU, Feb. World Vision, a global humanitarian agency, on Thursday called for increased funding to curb malnutrition in Somalia where some 58,000 children under five are at risk of death. World Vision Somalia Country Director Simon Nyabwengi said in a statement that drought is becoming a more frequent feature in Somalia, challenging efforts to build...
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In Somalia, food security and malnutrition situation is ‘alarming’ – UN report
A mother cradles her malnourished and dehydrated baby at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital Mogadishu 2011. UN Photo/Stuart Price (file) According to a new United Nations food security and nutrition assessment, the situation in Somalia is alarming and could get worse, especially in parts of Puntland and Somaliland, which have been hard hit by...
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Addis Ababa no longer a ‘backward’ city
Passengers queue to ride Ethiopia’s new tramway in Addis Ababa on September 20, 2015, the first such modern train system in sub-Saharan Africa. The Chinese-funded infrastructure project was hailed as a major step in the country’s economic development. AFP PHOTO By HENRY OWUOR Previously dismissed as a backward city with slums right next to the...
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Attacks on aid workers in Somalia almost double in 2015, kill 17: U.N
NAIROBI, Attacks on aid workers delivering supplies in Somalia almost doubled in 2015 and the number killed jumped to 17 from 10 the year before, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Somalia has been mired in conflict since civil war broke out in 1991 and is one of the most difficult countries for relief agencies...
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Djibouti signs trade, banking deals to deepen ties with China
Djibouti’s president has signed agreements with China to set up a trade zone and establishing a legal framework to let Chinese banks operate in the tiny Horn of Africa nation, the latest move to deepen ties with Beijing. China said last year that its military was in talks to build logistics facilities in Djibouti, a...
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Hunger expected to fall in Somalia in 2016 despite El Nino
Author: Katy Migiro In this 2015 file photo, Yemeni refugee stand in front of their makeshift shelter at a temporary camp in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. REUTERS/Feisal Omar NAIROBI, Hunger and malnutrition are expected to fall in Somalia this year despite flooding and drought caused by El Nino and thousands of new arrivals from Yemen and...
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Turbulent waters: Egypt, Sudan and Ethiopia are struggling to share the Nile
The largest hydroelectric project in Africa has so far produced only discord WHEN Egyptian politicians discussed sabotaging the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam in 2013, they naturally assumed it was a private meeting. But amid all the scheming, and with a big chuckle, Muhammad Morsi, then president, informed his colleagues that their discussion was being broadcast...
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Ethiopia: What if they were really set free?
If the government let people breathe, they might fly THE Ben Abeba restaurant is a spiral-shaped concrete confection perched on a mountain ridge near Lalibela, an Ethiopian town known for its labyrinth of 12th-century churches hewn out of solid rock. The view is breathtaking: as the sun goes down, a spur of the Great Rift...