Officials and residents taking part in the opening ceremony of the health centre. Doha: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) and Qatar Charity (QC) have opened a new health centre in Awdheegle District in Lower Shebelle, 120km south of Mogadishu, Somalia, at a cost of QR280,000 to improve health care services for the local community. Serving the...
By Katie Nguyen Mohammed Ahamed (R) waits as Shakir Hussein, owner of money transfer business Mustaqbal Express in Minneapolis, wires money to his ex-wife in Somalia. About 40 percent of all Somali families rely on remittances from abroad. Picture June 23, 2014. REUTERS/Eric Miller LONDON, A decision by a U.S. bank to stop doing business...
NAIROBI – Over 38,000 Somali children are at “high risk” from dying from starvation despite hunger levels improving by almost a third across the war-torn nation, UN experts said Thursday. The grim assessment, based on the latest data collected by the UN, comes just over three years since intense drought and war sparked famine in...
By Bosire Boniface in Garissa Refugees from South Sudan stand outside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) office at Kakuma refugee camp on January 13, 2014. [Bosire Boniface/Sabahi] Refugees in Kenya, some of whom have endured food aid cuts for up to four months, are welcoming the resumption of full rations in the...
People demonstrate outside the Ethiopian embassy in Stockholm against the crackdown on opposition in Ethiopia. PHOTO | FILE NATION MEDIA GROUP By Andualem Sisay Gessesse Over the past few months, the ruling party in Ethiopia, the Ethiopian Peoples Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF), has been busy selling its manifesto to different groups — from students to...
by GRAHAM PEEBLES Ethiopia is being hailed as a shining example of African economic growth. Principle donors and devotees of the International Monetary Fund/World Bank development model (an imposed ideological vision which measures all things in terms of a nations GDP) see the country as an island of potential prosperity and stability within a region...
By Waddour Issa Ethiopian military forces are conducting brutal repression against Somali-Issa pastoralists in the Awash River. As highlighted in this recent ‘linked’ article, Ethiopian government is implementing a program aimed at selling large swaps of land to foreign and international investors and to fulfill that purpose it wants to clear the area from indigenous...
By Steve Cummins IT’S BEEN more than 30 years since Nuru Ibrahim has seen his sister. He was seven when she left his father’s farm in search of food, never to be seen again. To this day he has no idea what might have happened to her. “That’s the worst experience of my life,” Nuru...
Mogadishu: More than three million people in war-torn Somalia- 20 per cent more than last year- need urgent help because of malnutrition, war and other crises, the United Nations said today. The warning came three years after more than 250,000 people died of hunger in the troubled east African country. “The people of Somalia continue...
By Standard The removal of Siad Barre, the military strongman who ruled Somalia with an iron fist in 1991 precipitated a situation that led to anarchy which has persisted for more than two decades. Repeated attempts by regional governments to set up a stable administration in Mogadishu have failed. The power vacuum left by Siad...