The annual Trócaire Lenten Appeal has been launched, with a focus on millions of people facing hunger in Somalia, where a protracted drought in the east African country has left almost half the population at risk of starvation. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the fundraising campaign. Over those five decades, the Trócaire Box […]

The UK has lost its leadership role in the world and is letting down its allies, a senior official in the Somali government has said. Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame, the presidential envoy for Somalia’s drought response, said Britain used to be second only to the US as a key player in international forums and advocacy, but […]

The recently concluded conference on Integrated National Financing Frameworks (INFF) and Open Budgets for Sustainable Development in Africa praised Somalia’s progress in financial transparency and the open budget process. In late September, a survey on Open Budget was unveiled at the meeting in Nigeria’s capital, Abuja. Somalia joined the Open Budget Survey (OBS) initiative in […]

After four consecutive years of drought, parts of Somalia are projected to enter a famine next month, based on new reports about acute food insecurity in the region. Despite warning signs from humanitarian groups for years about the dire situation facing the East African country’s 16 million residents, experts say, world leaders have essentially turned […]

Mursi woman with a Kalashnikov in the Lower Omo Valley.🇪🇹 The Mursi Tribe are found in the far southwest corner of Ethiopia, just north of the #Kenyan🇰🇪 border in the valley of the River Omo. Here in the remote Omo Valley palaeontologists have discovered some of the oldest human remains on earth and the tribes […]

Saudi authorities have arrested a man who claimed to have travelled to the Muslim holy city of Mecca to perform an umrah pilgrimage on behalf of Queen Elizabeth II. The man, a Yemeni national, published a video clip of himself on social media on Monday at the Grand Mosque in Mecca, Islam’s holiest site, where non-Muslims […]

CNN)Forces in Ethiopia’s Tigray region said they are ready to observe an immediate ceasefire and accept an African Union-led peace process to end a conflict with federal forces that has stretched over nearly two years. “We are ready to abide by an immediate and mutually agreed cessation of hostilities in order to create a conducive […]

Somalia will open a deep-water port on its northern coast next month, with a road link forging a new trade route connecting Ethiopia’s south-eastern region with the city of Gara’ad. The development is part of a $531 million investment plan aimed at boosting the export of livestock, fish, minerals and agricultural commodities, according to Saed […]

The mayor of the Somali city of Baidoa has told the BBC’s Newsday programme that authorities are concerned that things will get “worse in the coming months” amid a drought in the country. Earlier this week the UN’s top humanitarian official, Martin Griffiths, warned that “famine is at the door” after he visited some of […]

UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. humanitarian chief predicted Tuesday that at least $1 billion will be needed urgently to avert famine in Somalia in the coming months and early next year when two more dry seasons are expected to compound the historic drought that has hit the Horn of Africa nation. Martin Griffiths said in a […]