By Kaleyesus Bekele, The Reporter The Ethiopian Airlines Group and DHL, the leading global logistics and forwarding company, are going to sign an agreement to jointly incorporate a logistics service company in Ethiopia. One of the eight profit centers of Ethiopian Airlines Aviation Group, Ethiopian Airlines Cargo and Logistics, has partnered with DHL to render logistics...
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A child dies, a child lives: why Somalia drought is not another famine
Maggie Fick, Katharine Houreld A Somali woman holds her baby as she receives infants food aid in the northern Somali town of Dollow, Somalia, February 26, 2018. REUTERS/Baz Ratner DOLLOW, Somalia (Reuters) – At the height of Somalia’s 2011 famine, Madow Mohamed had to leave her crippled five-year-old son Abdirahman by the side of the...
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Technology holds promise, but no silver bullet for land rights: World Bank
By Astrid Zweynert WASHINGTON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – New technology has unleashed a wave of opportunities to secure formal land rights for hundreds of millions of people, but it is not a solve-all solution in countries with weak institutions, said a senior World Bank economist. Satellite imagery, drones, cloud computing and blockchain are among technologies...
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Invisibilia: Inspired By ‘American Idol,’ Somali TV Show Aimed To Change The World
Alix Spiegel Sara Wong for NPR Welcome to Invisibilia Season 4! The NPR program and podcast explores the invisible forces that shape human behavior, and we here at Goats and Soda are joining in for the podcast’s look at how a reality show in Somalia tried to do far more than crown a winning singer. The ultimate goal: to change human...
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U.S. suspends aid to Somalia’s battered military over graft
Katharine Houreld A Somali government soldier keeps watch over internally displaced people as they wait for food aid at a centre in Ubeyd camp in Mogadishu September 17, 2012. REUTERS/Ismail Taxta/File Photo NAIROBI (Reuters) – The United States is suspending food and fuel aid for most of Somalia’s armed forces over corruption concerns, a blow...
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Gates bolsters relief efforts as drought ravages Somalia
From left: Former US President Barack Obama, Melinda Gates and Bill Gates speak during the Goalkeepers event at Lincoln Center, New York, on September 20, 2017. The Gates contributed money to aid relief efforts in Somalia. PHOTO | COURTESY Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Bill Gates has offered financial support to Somalis hit by drought. Through...
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The Fight Over Women’s Basketball in Somalia
Despite threats from extremists, a league tries to stay on the court. By Alexis Okeowo Aisha got her first call from the terrorists when she was fourteen. It was 2013, and she was at home, in Mogadishu, Somalia, when an unknown number appeared on her phone. She picked up. The man on the other end told her...
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5 Multi-Millionaires From Somalia You Should Know
By Mfonobong Nsehe Somalia, a failed state in East Africa, has an extremely hostile political and business environment. But its people, the Somalis, are some of the most entrepreneurial people in Africa. Meet five low-key, ultra-wealthy Somali entrepreneurs who founded, own and run businesses with proven annual revenues of eight figures or more. Their names...
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Islamic finance provides Kenyans with cushion against drought
By Zoe Tabary This Muslim-majority county’s first private cooperative offers interest-free loans, with no fees for late payment – in accordance with Islamic principles WAJIR, Kenya, Hamara Hujale tries to keep an eye on two squirming children and a pot of simmering ugali – a white doughy dish – as she reaches for her buzzing...
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Kenya’s nomads swap guns for tourist dollars to end turf wars
By Geoffrey Kamadi and Katy Migiro ISIOLO, Kenya (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – It looked like a hostage swap only the currency was livestock and the mission was to end decades of deadly clashes. More than 50 sheep, goats and cows stood in the scorching heat of a desolate no-man’s land in arid northern Kenya, as Maasai and Samburu...