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THE GUARDIAN|NAIROBI: In September, I travelled from my home country, Uganda, to Turkana County in Kenya, which is suffering from a historic drought. One morning, I met a boy in…

Somalia can lay claim – through no choice of its own – to being the most dangerous country for journalists in Africa. Comparative data collected by the International Federation of…

AFP|ADDIS ABABA: The Ethiopian government said Thursday that peace talks on the nearly two-year-old war in Tigray would start in South Africa next week. International calls for a halt to…

THE EAST AFRICAN|MOGADISHU: It is the season from hell again in many parts of Africa. Around 20 percent of people in Africa — nearly 280 million — are facing chronic…

By President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud Mogadishu – Somalia is at war with a cruel, global and morally bankrupt terrorist group which we cannot allow to live and operate in our country.…

By Abebe Haile-Gabriel,  10 October 2022, Accra – As we mark World Food Day on 16 October, one in five people in Africa is going hungry. More than a billion…

THE PENINSULA: Doha Bank, one of the largest private commercial banks in Qatar, has donated QR1m to the “Pakistan Relief” and “Stop Somalia’s Famine” campaigns launched by Qatar Charity with…

VOA|WASHINGTON: The United States has warned Russia of “serious consequences” if it uses nuclear weapons in its war in Ukraine, according to Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to President…

By Amina J. Mohammed and Jutta Urpilainen As parents, teachers and students got ready for a return to school this autumn, few were thinking of the fact that across the…