In this file 2013 photo, displaced Somali women queue for rations at a food distribution centre after moving to higher ground due to flooding in areas around Jowhar, a town north of Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. REUTERS/Omar Faruk NAIROBI, Flash floods in Somalia have destroyed thousands of makeshift homes, as well as latrines and shallow wells,...
World Bank (WBG)- Sub-Saharan Africa countries are continuing to grow, albeit at a slower pace, due to a more challenging economic environment. Growth will slow in 2015 to 3.7 percent from 4.6 percent in 2014, reaching the lowest growth rate since 2009, according to new World Bank projections. These latest figures are outlined in the...
By Edith Honan NAIROBI (Reuters) – Industrial projects along Ethiopia’s Omo River could dry up Kenya’s Lake Turkana and create a humanitarian and environmental catastrophe exacerbated by climate change, Human Rights Watch said on Thursday. Turkana, the world’s largest desert lake, lies in Kenya’s northwest corner, on the border with Ethiopia, and gets 90 percent...
By BEN RAWLENCE Shonagh Rae FOR the past five years I have been visiting the world’s largest refugee camp, a city made of mud and sticks the size of New Orleans called Dadaab, in northeastern Kenya. The camp was established in 1991 as a temporary refuge for around 90,000 people fleeing Somalia’s civil war. Today...
Plunder of Somali waters by foreign fishing vessels could mean the return of hijackings, locals warn. By Jessica Hatcher Somali women offload the catch of the day from fishermen at the Bosaso harbour in Puntland [Karel Prinsloo/Adeso] Durduri, Somalia – A hundred years ago, it was a bustling port that served the vibrant fishing community living along...
By Ali Abdulle The current communal fighting raging in the hinterland on the Sool and Nugal border regions between supposedly fellow Puntlanders is the final nail in the coffin of Puntland, as it was originally envisaged, consisting of 5 regions and the district of Buhodle. The sad thing however is the rate with which the...
BY ADOW MOHAMED THE widely publicised repatriation of thousands of Somalia refugees from Kenya is in jeopardy after the United Nations announced a devastating four-year famine in Somalia. Stakeholders now say this is likely to cause an influx of even more refugees until the humanitarian situation in that country improves. The UN on Monday announced...
HARGEISA- (WAM) — The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation has concluded its humanitarian aid campaign in the city of Hargeisa in Somalia, after distributing thousands of food packages to families affected by the drought in many of the country’s coastal and mountainous areas. A spokesperson from the organisation said that the humanitarian campaign was...
By Katy Migiro A displaced Somali woman carries a child and her belongings as she arrives at a temporary dwelling after fleeing famine in the Marka Lower Shebbele regions to the capital Mogadishu, September 20, 2014. REUTERS/Feisal Omar NAIROBI, Aug 31 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of Somalis in hunger has risen in the...
The Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan Foundation plans to distribute 2,000 food baskets to 2,000 Somali families in Hargeisa and surrounding areas. The move follows the directives of the President, Sheikh Khalifa, and Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the Armed Forces, to assist the people of...