May 2018

By Fauxile Kibet The recent flooding across parts of the Horn of Africa region has exposed poor disaster management and vulnerability in most countries in the region. Torrential rains over…

Djibouti and Somalia signed a co-operation agreement on air and land transport, according to the Djiboutian Information Agency. The Djiboutian Agency said Wednesday the agreement allows the two governments to…

Hundreds of families continue to move away from their homes in areas along Shabelle and Jubba rivers as floods inundate homes and farms. In Gedo region, residents of Elwak district…

By T. Roble THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT entered into an ambitious €132m contract in 2013 with a Cyprus incorporated maritime company to build and supply six long range patrol vessels but the…

The cabinet declared Muse a terrorist last year but the Federal Parliament differed Jubbaland president Ahmed Madobe’s meeting with former ONLF senior leader Abdikarim Muse aka Qalbidagax in Addis Ababa…

The European Union is considering a €100 million package in direct support to Somalia in a bid to fast-track the debt relief process. The EU bloc said it had expressed…

Hundreds of families in Saakow and Badhere districts in Gedo region have been robbed of livelihoods following heavy flooding in the area as Jubba River burst its banks. Locals told…

By  Burundi suspended operations by the British Broadcasting Corporation and Voice of America on Friday, two weeks before a referendum that could extend the president’s rule for at least a…

By Reuters TUNIS (Reuters) – About 800 migrants in a government-run center in western Libya are being detained in worsening conditions without sufficient food or water, Doctors without Borders (MSF)…