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“We haven’t had enough time between one disaster and another” says MSF doctor on situation in Somalia
A senior doctor with the with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Baidoa, Somalia has described the humanitarian situation in the country as catastrophic. Dr Asma Aweis Abdallah said the drought in the country- the worst in four decades has forced people to move from their homes to look for health and humanitarian assistance. She said over the last…
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Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year
A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid Somalia's longest drought on record last year and half of them likely were children under 5 years old. It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa. At least 18,000 people, and…
Kenya’s Dadaab camp swells with Somalis fleeing drought, conflict
For much of her adult life, Shamsa Amin Ali has had to cope with failed rains withering her crops, killing her livestock and displacing her and her family within Somalia. But faced with a relentless drought that has gripped the Horn of Africa region for the past three years, her…
WFP warns of worsening humanitarian crisis in Horn of Africa
After five consecutive below-average rains, the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa is expanding and deepening, the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has warned.Combined with insecurity and macroeconomic volatility, the impact of the drought on food and nutrition security has been devastating, the WFP said in its regional…
UNICEF seeks $272 million for humanitarian services in Somalia
The UN Children’s Fund, or UNICEF, has appealed for 272.3 million U.S. dollars to provide humanitarian services to 3 million people in Somalia, including 2 million children in 2023. The UN agency said the funds will help it expand the delivery of essential multisectoral services, with a focus on hard-to-reach…
World Food Program chief: Somali famine slowed, not avoided
The head of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning World Food Program says support from donors like the United States and Germany have allowed it to postpone — though not entirely avert — famine in Somalia but stressed that “we’re not out of this yet.” WFP Executive Director David Beasley said countries…
St. Paul health care workers create PPE for Muslim women
When health care workers Yasmin Samatar and Faraoli Adam were on the frontlines of the pandemic, they struggled to find personal protective equipment for Muslim women like them. So they launched Mawadda, a line of hygienic hijabs to help keep Muslim health care workers and patients safe in the hospital.…