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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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Horn of AfricaNews
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 …
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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 …
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Horn of AfricaNewsSomaliland
Khat prices from Ethiopia to stabilize after deal Somaliland government
The governments of the Republic of Somaliland and the Federal Government of Ethiopia, have agreed to stabilize the price of qat and vegetables, following a recent increase in prices by …
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Three months ago, Dahir’s youngest children made a seemingly trivial decision that would cost them their lives. Amina and Muhammed, aged four and six, drank the dirty water lurking at …
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Differences over plans to reshuffle Somaliland’s licensed political parties and the sequencing of elections have cast doubts over the electoral calendar since December 2021. In light of the legal and …
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Ethiopia has lost 19 percent of its stake in the port of Berbera over failure to fulfil conditions required to complete the ownership deal, the government of Somaliland has said. …
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HealthHorn of AfricaNews
‘Widen gaze from Ukraine’ to avert famine in the Horn of Africa, U.N. agency warns
The world must “widen its gaze from the war in Ukraine” to prevent Somalia sliding into famine, the United Nations’ children’s agency said on Tuesday, warning only a third of …