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“We haven’t had enough time between one disaster and another” says MSF doctor on situation in Somalia

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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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‘Our animals used to feed us, but now we feed them – they are dying and we are next’

By Paul O’Brien MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE that famine is a shortage of food in an area or country. Famine is not always a “shortage”. During the Irish famine in 1845-1849, food was exported from Ireland at the same time as the majority of the population faced mass starvation. Most famines…

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By Alexander Jelloian China is making too many friends. Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party have shown that they are willing to spend hundreds of billions of dollars in developing countries, causing many nations to deepen their relations with China—a worrying development for those who support democracy and human rights.…

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Hardawi, the “Shakespeare of Somalia” passes on in Hargeisa at 79

By Hussein Ali Hussein  “Call him a thinker, a philosopher, an intellectual, a revolutionary, a critic, a teacher, at every turn in the checkered history of his homeland, Hadrawi has delighted his people with his striking poetry, and his clarity of vision, speaking truth to power when the occasion demanded, joining…

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Meet Suhura Ismail, the entrepreneur khat crowned queen

By Philipp Hedemann For many Africans khat is a stimulant drug that also stills hunger pangs. But the world's biggest seller of khat doesn't fit the typical profile of a drug dealer. In Somaliland, not a lot works. Somaliland is a republic in the north of Somalia, which, although it…

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Inside the African clinic fighting to keep babies alive in the face of starvation

By Sarah Ingram At just five months old, Haybe lies motionless beneath a mosquito net, clinging on to life. He is small and desperately thin, and his mother Khadra, watches his little body, anxiously willing him to recover. When Haybe fell ill with diarrhoea and vomiting, Khadra travelled and given…

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UN humanitarian agencies face record funding gap this year

UN humanitarian projects face a record funding gap this year, with only a third of the required $US48.7 billion secured so far as global needs outpace pledges, according to a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. The money is needed to help around 204…

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