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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Abdirahman Mohamed Abdullahi, President of the Republic of Somaliland, expressed his gratitude to the UAE…
Camel milk is a critical product for both consumers and businesses in Somaliland, according to Agrilinks,…
Somaliland’s opposition parties UCID and Wadani are planning a meeting to push the government to…
United States growing interest in Somaliland became clearer this week with the visit by General…
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