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UN: 258 Million People Faced Acute Food Insecurity in 2022

More than a quarter-billion people in 58 countries faced acute food insecurity last year due to conflicts, climate change, the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the war in Ukraine, according to a report published Wednesday. The Global Report on Food Crises, an alliance of humanitarian organizations founded by the…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Pneumonia vaccine delays kill thousands needlessly in Africa

Access to PCV jabs in South Sudan, Somalia, Guinea and Chad ‘could save 40,000 children a year’

The Guardian - UK

Official: 148 Somalis evacuated from Sudan via Ethiopia

Scores of Somalis fleeing violence in Sudan arrived in their Horn of Africa nation on Sunday, an official said

The Independent UK

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East Africa's drought crisis in numbers with 120 million people struggling to survive

Around 120 million people in northern Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia, South Sudan and Sudan are struggling without the food they need to survive

Daily Mirror

House rejects Gaetz resolution to remove US troops from Somalia - Roll Call

The House easily rejected Rep. Gaetz' resolution requiring US troops to be returned from Somalia, but more than 100 lawmakers were on board.

Roll Call

Global climate change driving drought in Horn of Africa

A report released Thursday shows that the devastating series of droughts that has struck the Horn of Africa since late 2020 would not have occurred without global warming.

Radio France Internationale

The pride and dark humour of Australian peacekeepers 30 years on

Two veterans of Australian intervention in Somalia meet in Canberra.

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Sudan's hospitals on brink of collapse amid fighting

In tonight's edition: Faced with deadly clashes between rival armed forces, Sudanese flee their homes as another attempted ceasefire fails. Over in Somaliland, conflict has raged in the town of Las Anod since February. The Dhulbahante clan wants it to leave Somaliland and rejoin Somalia. Finally, TikTok is being sued…

France 24

Army veteran remembers 'burden of the work' in the 30 years since Somalia mission

"I recall one of the local elders describing the Australian soldiers like a colony of ants - all over the place. And we were."

The Canberra Times

Somalis suffering from climate crisis they did nothing to create - U.N. chief

Somalia is suffering from the impact of a climate crisis it has done almost nothing to create, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said on Wednesday, as a full-blown famine threatens to follow a drought that killed 43,000 people last year.

Reuters

UN Chief Urges 'Massive' International Support For Somalia

Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed Tuesday for "massive" international support for Somalia as it battles a devastating drought and a grinding Islamist insurgency. Guterres, who arrived in Somalia's capital Mogadishu earlier on Tuesday, described his trip as a visit of "solidarity." "I am also here to ring the alarm…

Asharq Al-Awsat

UN chief urges ‘massive international support’ for drought-hit Somalia

U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appealed for “massive international support” for Somalia on Tuesday during his visit to the East African country, which is facing the worst drought in decades.

France 24

U.N calls for massive international support to Somalia

The Independent UK

UN chief Guterres in Somalia to highlight catastrophic drought, Islamist insurgency

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has arrived in Mogadishu at the start of a brief visit to Somalia, which has been afflicted by protracted armed conflict, climate disasters and famine.

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Asharq Al-Awsat

UN Chief Guterres Makes Second Visit to Somalia

UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrived in Mogadishu on Tuesday to kick off a brief visit to Somalia, a country scarred by protracted armed conflict and climate disasters. Guterres was given a red-carpet welcome at the capital's airport by Somalia's Foreign Minister Abshir Omar Huruse who posted pictures of the event…

Zenger

Areas Liberated From Al Shabab In Somalia Face New Humanitarian Challenges

Asharq Al-Awsat

At Least 21 Dead in Somalia’s Flash Floods, Says UN Agency

At least 21 people including six children have died in Somalia’s flash flooding over the last week, according to the UN humanitarian agency. Nearly 100,000 people have been affected by the heavy rains and flash floods in the Bardhere district of the Gedo region of southern Somalia, according to the…

The Guardian - UK

Bloodshed and resilience in a Mogadishu fish market: Tariq Zaidi’s best photograph

‘Taking photos here wasn’t easy. Stand still for too long and you’d get barged out of the way by busy shoppers – or whacked by a fin or a tail’

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Climate crisis: Mum buries toddler by the roadside in drought-hit Somalia

"We didn’t have enough to feed them and they succumbed"

Al Jazeera

Kenyan khat farmers seek gov’t help to boom again after COVID-19

Kenyan farmers say they need aid to keep growing the stimulant prized across East Africa and parts of the Middle East.

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Appoints New Ambassador to Somalia

US President Joe Biden has nominated Richard Riley to be the next US Ambassador to Somalia, according to the Somali National News Agency. Riley will serve as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary, replacing Larry Andre, who has served as the US Ambassador to Somalia since January 2022. Previously, Riley worked at…

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Some in Dry Somalia Break Ramadan Fast With Little but Water

This year’s holy month of Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in Somalia. As the sun sets and Muslims around the world gather to break their daily fasts with generous dinners, Hadiiq Abdulle Mohamed and her family have just water and whatever food might be at hand. Mohamed…

The Independent UK

Some in dry Somalia break Ramadan fast with little but water

This year’s holy month of Ramadan coincides with the longest drought on record in Somalia

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Soldiers Join Somali Army in its War Against Shabaab

US soldiers joined the Somali army, preparing for the second phase of the war against the extremist Somali al-Shabaab Movement. An official in the Somali government confirmed, on condition of anonymity, to Asharq Al-Awsat that members of the US Special Forces had arrived in the Mahas area, about 300 km…

Asharq Al-Awsat

43 Al-Shabaab Members Killed in Somalia

Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud called Monday on the Army to be prepared for the second phase of the offensive operation against terrorist militants remaining in the country. Meanwhile the Somali News Agency, Sonna, quoted official sources as saying that more than 40 members of al-Qaeda-linked Shabaab militants were killed…

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