Somalis irrigating their farms with the help of pumps procured by QRC. Doha: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) continues to intensify relief and development efforts in Somalia to save the victims of drought and improve their quality of life in the face of critical economic and security conditions. Prior to the completion of urgent relief work,...
November 14, 2026
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On the refugee road: my story
Every year, thousands flee their country to escape war, drought or poverty. In 1996 in Somalia, Africa Reporter Jamal Osman was one of them. Here, he retraces his steps and meets those trying it now. Jamal Osman It was in 1996. I was a teenager. At that point, the Somalia war had been raging for several years....
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Over 50,000 Somali children at ‘death’s door:’ Groups
MOGADISHU: War-torn Somalia risks sliding back into acute crisis less than three years since a devastating famine, aid agencies warned on Wednesday, amid failing rains, escalating conflict and aid funding shortfalls. Over 50,000 severely malnourished children are at “death’s door,” said the warning issued by a coalition of 22 international and Somali aid agencies, with...
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Somali boy who stowed away on airplane wanted to reach his mother
Authorities piece together story of 15-year-old, now hospitalised, who survived five-hour flight in the wheel well of a jet A 15-year-old boy scrambled over a fence at the San Jose International Airport and survived a five-hour flight to Hawaii by stowing away on a plane. Photograph: Eric Risberg/AP AN JOSE, California (AP) He was young,...
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In Which Event Were You Born? How the Kenya Government Determines Age of its Pastoralists
By Adan Makina The history of people of Cushitic extracts or of like features residing in Kenya’s Eastern and North Eastern Provinces (formerly the Northern Frontier Districts or in short NFD) irradiates concealed treasures of historical value retrievable from a few surviving super-centenarian storytellers possessing narratives worthy of recitation. These are sequences of events worth...
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QRC spent over QR10m in three years in Somalia
A volunteer at the QRC mission visiting a camp. Doha: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) has spent more than QR10m in past three years in pursuing its relief and developmental endeavors in Somalia to save victims of drought and improve their quality of life in face of critical economic and security conditions. More than QR10m worth...
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Syria crisis: Uplifting letters of hope
By Tom Heyden BBC News Magazine Young Somali refugees living in the world’s largest refugee camp, in Kenya, have sent letters of encouragement to Syrian refugee children who have also had to flee their homeland. The young Somali students reside in the Dadaab refugee camp, in north-eastern Kenya. It is home to nearly 400,000 refugees,...
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Somalia turning guns into ploughshares
Somalis tend to their maize garden as a soldier keeps watch over them. Photo/FILE By DANIEL K. KALINAKI The EastAfrican On a hot morning in early March, a dozen or so Somali farmers crowd into a small shelter at the UN base next to Mogadishu Airport. Flanked by officials from the World Food Programme (WFP) and...
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Civil war aftermath: World help sought in rebuilding Somalia
Dr Marjan Lucas, a Dutch expert on Somalia speaks at a discussion. PHOTO: EXPRESS ISLAMABAD: Speakers at a discussion urged international community to help Somalia in rebuilding its infrastructure and economy. They termed the absence of central government, lack of education and economic problems as the root causes of civil war and lawlessness in the east...
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UNHCR says voluntary repatriation of Somali refugees to proceed
GARISSA, Kenya, (Xinhua) — The UN refugee agency said Tuesday the planned voluntary repatriation of Somali refuges living in northern Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp will go ahead. Head of Operations at the UNHCR sub-office in Dadaab, Ahmed Warsame stressed that repatriation will be “voluntary” with those who chose to remain behind continuing to receive assistance...