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Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March on the challenges and heartbreak of filming a story about looming famine in Somalia

Foreign Correspondent reporter Stephanie March gives an insight into one of the most challenging assignments of her career, dealing with confronting scenes of terrible suffering, security threats and logistical difficulties while filming a story about Somalia's hunger crisis.

ABC News

African Union urges nearly $90 million for its Somali force

The African Union is appealing for nearly $90 million for its peacekeeping force in Somalia as it provides support to the country's military forces battling al-Shabab extremists

The Independent UK

Seven months pregnant and with four kids, Aisha faced an unbearable choice

Aisha's hometown is trapped between ruthless militants and the worst drought in four decades. So she made a decision no mother should have to make.

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Drought caused 43,000 ‘excess deaths’ in Somalia last year, half of them young children

New report uncovers tragic scale of climate-led crisis and forecasts up to 34,000 more deaths so far this year

The Guardian - UK

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Somalia drought claimed as many as 43,000 lives last year

As many as 43,000 people are estimated to have died in Somalia last year as a result of the east African nation’s worst drought in more than four decades, according to the government and United Nations agencies.

Tribune News Service

Somalia drought may have killed 43,000 in 2022, half under 5: UN

After five consecutive failed rainy seasons, rate of fatalities could rise in first half of 2023, research finds.

Al Jazeera

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Somalia drought: 43,000 people die in a year and half are children under five

‘Unrelenting droughts’ have created worst hunger crisis for 70 years says

The Independent UK

Somalia's drought killed 43,000 last year, half under five - study

Somalia's ongoing record drought killed as many as 43,000 people last year, half of them children under 5, researchers said on Monday in the first attempt to estimate country-wide deaths.

Reuters

Report: 43,000 Estimated Dead in Somalia Drought Last Year

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children. It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa. At least 18,000 people are…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year REDIRECTED

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children

The Independent UK

Tuesday briefing: How British-Somali citizens are disappearing to ‘culture rehabilitation centres’

A report published by the Observer tells the story of young people of Somali descent being held against their will to be ‘de-westernised’

The Guardian - UK

Droughts bring disease: here are 4 ways they do it

Countries in the Horn of Africa have been hit by a multiyear drought. Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and Uganda are expected to continue getting below-normal rainfall in 2023. Excluding Uganda, 36.4 million people are affected and 21.7 million are in need of food assistance.

The Conversation

Somali ‘rehab’: re-education camps where children are locked up, beaten and abused

Westernised children of Somalis are being forcibly detained for years ‘back home’ in unregulated, brutal dhaqan celis sites where sexual abuse is rife

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Militant Islamist violence in Africa surges – deaths up nearly 50%, events up 22% in a year

Militant Islamist violence in Africa set new records for violent events and fatalities this past year. This continues a relentless decade-long upward trend. To give a sense of the accelerating pace of this threat, both violent events and fatalities have almost doubled since 2019.

Reuters

Somalia's al Shabaab recaptures base it lost to military offensive

Fighters from Somalia's al Shabaab Islamist group on Tuesday recaptured a military base in the south that they had lost to the army in January, a Somali officer and a local resident said.

Al Jazeera

Somalia working to ‘stop violence’ amid Somaliland tension

In an interview with Al Jazeera, President Mohamud talks Somaliland, the fight against al-Shabab and Somalia’s future.

Irish Mirror

Family treks 16 days with 8 kids to escape starvation in near famine conditions in Somalia caused by climate crisis

"We lost everything so that forced us to leave our home - it was about survival for the children"

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The Earth's Corr: No one in this world should have to bury their toddler by the roadside

I’ve seen with my own eyes how the climate crisis we are adding to is killing people in the Horn of Africa

Asharq Al-Awsat

US Increases Military Support for Somalia against Al-Shabab

The United States is increasing its military assistance to Somalia as the country sees success in battling what the US calls “the largest and most deadly al-Qaeda network in the world.” Sixty-one tons of weapons and ammunition arrived Tuesday in Mogadishu, the US said in a statement of support for…

Al Jazeera

International concern as conflict grows in breakaway Somaliland

Six countries issue joint statement over clashes around town of Lascanood between Somaliland and local clan forces.

Reuters

U.S. and others express concern at conflict in Somalia breakaway region

Representatives from the United States, Britain, Qatar, Somalia, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey met on Tuesday and expressed concern at the conflict in and around Laascaanood, a disputed town in Somalia's northern breakaway region of Somaliland, according to a statement released by the State Department.

Reuters

Fleeing drought, Somalis face malnutrition and cholera in Kenya

When her three-month-old baby fell sick from malnutrition, Dool Abdirahman Ismael left her village in Somalia and walked for three days through swirling dust and scorching heat to the Dadaab Refugee Camp just across the border in Kenya.

Reuters

Three dead after African peacekeeping mission helicopter crashes in Somalia

Three people died and eight others were injured when a helicopter operated by the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia crashed on Saturday in the country's Lower Shabelle region, the mission said in a statement on Sunday.

Al Jazeera

Drought in Horn of Africa worse than in 2011 famine

Below-normal rainfall is expected over the next three months in parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia.

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