by MATT SEPIC Somali-Americans rally in Minnesota in 2012, after the only bank that supported the money-exchange system called hawala withdrew from those transactions. Other banks eventually stepped in to fill the demand, but one of the last to facilitate the transfers plans to stop doing so at the end of the month.Jim Mone/AP Somali-Americans may...
November 14, 2026
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Somali capital one step short of famine: UN
An unidentified severely malnourished Somali refugee child rests inside a ward at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. File photo. Image by: THOMAS MUKOYA / REUTERS War-torn Somalia is sliding back into an acute hunger crisis with parts of the capital facing emergency levels just...
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Somali lawmaker assassinated, Shebab claim responsibility
Somalia’s Al-Qaeda-linked Shebab claimed responsiblity for shooting dead a lawmaker and wounding another, the latest in a surge of attacks in Mogadishu during Islam’s holy month of Ramadan. “This was a targeted assassination. We also wounded another MP and two body guards,” Shebab spokesman Abdulaziz Abu Musab told AFP. A witness said MP Ahmed Mohamud...
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Kenya: Terre des hommes assists more than 19’500 Somali refugees
@tdh Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Since October 2012, Terre des hommes (Tdh), alongside 18 other main aid agencies, has been involved in a major emergency response operation in favour of Somali refugees in the North-eastern part of Kenya. According to UNHCR (2014),...
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Trekking with Ethiopia’s Nomads, from Watering Holes to Pasture Lands, For a Better Life
By William Lloyd-George Camels wait for treatment from the Liyu police veterinarian teams outside Bulali town in Ethiopia’s Somali region. Credit: William Lloyd-George/IPS SOMALI REGION, Ethiopia, Jun 30 2014 (IPS) – When he was a young boy, 20-year-old Abdi, who comes from a small pastoralist community in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, “knew about school, reading and writing but...
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Growing up in the world’s largest refugee camp
A Somali refugee who has spent nearly his whole life in Kenya’s Dadaab camp tells Al Jazeera what it is like. By Abdullahi Mire Thousands of Somalis fled to Dadaab camp in Kenya after the civil war that broke out in Somalia in 1991 [Reuters] One day in 1991, gunmen from the Hawiye clan attacked...
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Boosting U.S. Ties With Somalia
Recognizing Somalia’s progress and as a sign of our nation’s faith, President Barack Obama will soon name a U.S. ambassador. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry (R) and Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud shake hands before a meeting at Addis Ababa. Long torn by clan rivalries, stricken by drought and resulting famine, and attacks by...
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Somalia on Verge of New Famine as Donors Fail to Provide Funding
By Ilya Gridneff War-torn Somalia is on the verge of another humanitarian crisis and may face another famine unless donor funding is received, a United Nations official said. Less than a fifth of the $933 million needed to fund humanitarian work in the Horn of Africa country has been received and primary health-care services will...
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Mark Haddon’s Ethiopian adventure
The curious incident of the novelist who conquered his fear of flying with the help of Valium, Mogwai and Ethiopian Airlines flight 707 to Addis Ababa Mark Haddon i Experts in their field: Mark at the Halaku irrigation Scheme in Awassa. He is talking with farmer Alamu Kufa, who is 35 and has seven children....
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No Silver Lining for Somalia’s Child Labourers
By Muhyadin Ahmed Roble 11-year-old Hassan Abdullahi Duale works 12-hour shifts at a car-repair shop in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. Credit:Alinoor Salad/IPS NAIROBI/MOGADISHU (IPS) – Twelve-year-old Halima Mohamed Ali wakes up every morning at five am, but unlike her peers she does not go to school. Instead, she begins her duties as a nanny for five children,...