Sent, sealed and to be delivered: Minn. nonprofit packs off a whole hospital...
A Minnesota nonprofit has shipped the entire contents of a hospital — from bandages to beds to dialysis machines — to a hospital in Mogadishu in a move to create “the best-equipped hospital in...
View ArticleAfrican children ‘missing out’
Africa has the highest rate of unregistered children in the world, the United Nations Children’s Funds, Unicef, has said. Millions of children in Africa could be missing out on their rights to health...
View ArticleRugby player arrested over alleged link with Al Shabaab.
Nakuru RFC have expressed their shock and disappointment following the arrest of their centre player Javan Morton Murai on alleged links with terror group, Al Shabaab. The player who featured for...
View ArticleSomalia’s prime minister: ‘We don’t want Kenya to push [out] refugees’
The government of Kenya has come under intense criticism from the United Nations and human rights groups for announcing that it will shut down Dadaab refugee camp by November, which, with nearly...
View Article‘78% of Kenyans would welcome refugees’
Seventy eight per cent of Kenyans would welcome refugees into the country, a survey has shown. The Refugees Welcome Index by Amnesty Intentional released yesterday, shows 62 per cent of Kenyans want...
View ArticleUN World Food Program investigating allegations on expired aid food in Somalia.
The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) said Wednesday it was investigating allegations that it had tried to send expired and damaged food to needy people in south-western Somalia. Senior police...
View ArticleEthiopia: Protest Crackdown Killed Hundreds.
(Nairobi, June 16, 2016) – Ethiopian security forces have killed more than 400 protesters and others, and arrested tens of thousands more during widespread protests in the Oromia region since November...
View ArticleMigrants, including children, found dead in Niger desert.
The bodies of 34 migrants, including 20 children, have been found in the Niger desert near the Algerian border. They were abandoned by their smugglers. In a statement read on national television on...
View ArticleSomalia Moves to Shore Up Government Ahead of National Elections
The Somali parliament approved amendments to the constitution Wednesday that will allow the House to continue to function should the country’s leaders fail to meet the deadline set for the election of...
View Article15 Somalians Suffocate in a truck in Luapula Province (Imagery warning)
15 people suspected to be Somalian nationals have died in a containerised truck on the pedicle road in an apparent case of human trafficking gone wrong. The Truck registered AFB 496 from Kasama was...
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