The U.N. weather agency is forecasting a return to normal or above normal rainfall conditions in famine-hit southern Somalia, eastern, central and coastal Kenya, and in northeastern Tanzania. The World Meteorological Organization said its prediction, issued Wednesday, is for the September to December, an important rainfall season for southern Somalia and other equatorial regions in [...]
United States Department of State (Washington, DC) Donald Y. Yamamoto 31 August 2011 opinion With famine spreading across the Horn of Africa, the Somali-American diaspora isn’t just watching the images fan across the television, they’re organizing themselves into action. More than 100,000 Somali-Americans reside in the United States and their deep communal ties to relatives in [...]
(UKPA) – 3 hours ago Starving children and families in one of east Africa’s worst hit regions are to be provided with 100 tonnes of food after two charities joined forces to step up their emergency response plan. Mary’s Meals has teamed up with African relief agency Gift of the Givers to provide around 900,000 [...]
NAIROBI – Food will be increasingly scarce in famine-struck southern Somalia until next year’s harvest, the head of the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Thursday. “We have not yet reached the peak of the crisis,” UNHCR chief Antonio Guterres told reporters in Kenya after visiting southern Somalia and the country’s capital, Mogadishu. “From [...]
The supposed sanctuary of Kenyan refugee camps can’t protect Somali women from the horrors of a growing rape epidemic. The three refugee camp sites built by the Kenyan government at Dadaab in northern Kenya were originally planned to house 90,000 people. However, a daily influx of over 1,400 Somalis escaping tremendous famine and sectarian violence [...]
Antoine de Ras A mother lies exhausted with her child on a dusty road in Mogadishu while waiting wait for medical assistance from ‘The Gift of the Givers’ at a makeshift medical camp for famine striken Somalians in the Hawlwadag district in Mogadishu, Somalia. Picture: Antoine de Ras, The Star AU base at Aden Abdulle [...]
An appeal by a senior UN official, Augustine Mahiga, for all Somalis inside and outside the country to work together in the face of a growing famine is unlikely to cut much ice with hardline elements of al-Shabaab, the Islamist insurgents. A report by Associated Press from Mogadishu provides a grim picture of how some [...]
August 3, 2011: Al Shabaab is taking a beating, and most of it is self-inflicted. The more publicized reasons for this include the growing list of lifestyle restrictions imposed on Somalis (what to wear, what to eat, what to do, or not do). This includes no foreign aid, which has caused more people to take [...]
This week it has been raining in the part of Karamoja where I’m staying. Last week it did not. The weather here is unpredictable. Karamoja is a wide swath of semi-arid land in the north-west of Uganda – it runs along the Ugandan side of the Uganda-Kenya border. It covers an area of more than [...]
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Health: Global Fund against HIV-AIDS resumes activities in Mauritania
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Mauritanian Football Federation elects new president
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Kicked out of Zimbabwe, he’s now a top sportsman
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Mugabe praises coalition government with rivals
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