UK government announces over £10m to aid relief efforts in Somalia Storyline:National News GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU: The UK government has announced over 10 million pounds in additional funding to support humanitarian aid in Somalia amid an escalating drought situation. UK Minister of Development Andrew… 2 mins read
3 mins read Storyline:World UN aid chief wants 25% more money in 2023, no famine yet in Somalia REUTERS|NEW YORK: The United Nations will ask for 25 per cent more money in 2023 to fund humanitarian aid operations globally, the UN aid chief told a Reuters NEXT event…
5 mins read Storyline:World Ukraine to donate grain to hunger-stricken African countries THE EAST AFRICAN|NAIROBI: Kenya, South Sudan, and Somalia are among African countries which will benefit from a donation of grains from Ukraine meant to help alleviate the growing hunger crisis…
6 mins read Storyline:National News Somalia’s food crisis is claiming young lives By Oxygen machines beep and people whisper at the intensive care unit of Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital. Foil shields the windows from sunlight and lets in a blue…
1 min read Storyline:National News WFP seeking 416 mln USD for famine prevention in Somalia XINHUA|MOGADISHU: The World Food Programme (WFP) said Monday it requires 416 million U.S. dollars for the next six months to prevent famine in Somalia. WFP said the funds, required between…
9 mins read Storyline:National News Somalia braces for famine, trapped between Al Shabab and drought THE NEW YORK TIMES|MOGADISHU: The sea of rag-and-stick tents that spreads in every direction from the hungry, embattled city of Baidoa, in southern Somalia, gives way to sprawling plains controlled…
6 mins read Storyline:National News “We fled hunger but hunger followed us here”: Children in Somalia face soaring levels of malnutrition SAVE THE CHILDREN|BAIDOA: A single graveyard in Somalia has been filled with the bodies of 230 children as malnutrition soars to levels not seen since famine was last declared in…
4 mins read Storyline:National News Al-Shabaab blockade exacerbating humanitarian crisis in Somalia ANADOLU AGENCY|MOGADISHU: An ongoing blockade by al-Shabaab insurgents in parts of Somalia is worsening the humanitarian situation in the Horn of Africa country. Bakool in southwestern Somalia is one of…
5 mins read Storyline:National News CBS News goes inside Somali hospitals where climate change-induced hunger is killing children CBS NEWS|BAIDOA: Almost half of the 16 million people who live in Somalia are facing extreme hunger. More than a third of the east African nation’s 5 million children under…
5 mins read Storyline:National News Somalia drought: One boy’s fight to save his family from starvation Warning: This article contains images some readers may find distressing Eleven-year-old Dahir weaves his way between a growing cluster of homemade huts on the edge of Baidoa, heading to a…
