By: Emma Rumney Ethiopia, the second poorest country in the world at the start of the century, is on track to become a middle-income country by 2025. Addais Ababa, Ethiopia The World Bank has said that Ethiopia has overtaken other low income and Sub-Saharan African countries thanks to a unique focus on promoting agriculture and industrial...
November 15, 2026
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Recent floods damage supply routes, vital infrastructure in Somalia, UN relief wing warns
In Somalia, floods have been affecting people in low-lying areas as water levels rise in Shabelle and Juba rivers. Photo: OCHA Somalia The floods caused by recent heavy rainfalls in South Central Somalia have led to an interruption of humanitarian aid delivery, an escalation of local commodity prices, and an epidemic in water-borne diseases, the...
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Can Ethiopia’s railway bring peace to Somalia?
By Mary Harper Africa editor, BBC World Service News, Addis Ababa “We decided to open the railway early because of the drought, the worst in decades,” says Getachew Betru, chief executive of the Ethiopian Railways Corporation (ERC). It is a Saturday, but this thoughtful, intelligent man is busy working. Except for the guards at the...
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Somalia’s US Embassy Reopens After 24 Years
By Ezra Fessahaye FILE – Foreign Minister Abdisalam Omer of Somalia addresses a plenary meeting of the United Nations Sustainable Development Summit 2015 at the United Nations headquarters in New York, Sept. 26, 2015. WASHINGTON—For the first time in almost a quarter-century, Somalia has an embassy in the United States. The Somali government reopened its...
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Security Council enhances role of UN support office in Somalia
Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom and President of the Security Council for November, Philip Hammond, chairs the Council meeting on the situation in Somalia. UN Photo/Cia Pak The Security Council today approved a successor operation to the six-year-old United Nations Support Office for the African Union Mission to...
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THE SECRET WAR IN OGADEN
BY LAURA SECORUN PALET Ethiopia. Once synonymous with starving children and deadly droughts, the country is today a bastion of stability in the turbulent Horn of Africa. Landlocked between unruly Somalia and despotic Eritrea, it has become a darling of Western powers and an paragon of economic development. Except: According to the Internal Displacement Monitoring...
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Ethiopia tries to avert another famine
Mindful of past disasters, Ethiopians are readier than before to deal with drought JUMPING a fence of prickly pears, Gumat Hussain, a local chief in the driest district of North Wollo, Ethiopia’s most drought-prone province, walks gloomily through his sorghum. “The crops have not produced grain. They are useless even for the animals,” he sighs....
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Madagascar: the country that’s poor but not poor enough for aid
With no terrorism or geo-strategic importance, the island nation slips off lists of global causes despite widespread hunger and harsh impact of climate change David Smith in Ambovombe Lahie and Njomasy, with the children – Vorito, Lovasoa, Fanampesoa and Rasoa – who gained notoriety on Facebook because of photos of their malnourished bodies. Photograph: Shiraaz...
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The Four Factors Behind Kenya-Somalia Maritime Border Row
BY STEPHEN OPAN Last week, Kenyanauthorities submitted data evidence to the UN on the ongoing Kenya-Somali border row. This follows an earlier suit filed by the Somali government at the Hague-based International Court of Justice concerning the maritime boundary dispute. What started as simple matter has degenerated over time into a complex problem, finding its way into...
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We must address political economy of growth without development in Africa
by Jean-Luc Stalon, Deputy Country Director of UNDP in Mali In Africa, many countries with sustained economic growth continue to display extreme levels of inequality and poverty. Access to higher education, with an overall rate of 7 % of the population, is the lowest in the world. Despite the continent being one of the biggest...