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Massive car bomb kills 79 in Somalia’s capital

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After drought, floods compound Somalia’s year of climate misery

By Nick Perry As Somalia withered from drought early this year, and her goats dropped dead from thirst, Maka Abdi Ali begged for rain. When the...

United Nations hit hard after US cut its funding

United Nations"•The year 2019 started off at the United Nations with Somalia brazenly kicking out the UN envoy, followed soon after by Guatemala ditching...

Somalia orders top UN envoy to leave

Mogadishu"•Somalia’s government has ordered the UN top envoy to the troubled country to leave, accusing him of “deliberately interfering with the country’s sovereignty.” The order...

World body sparks uproar over three picks

Geneva—Bahrain, Cameroon and the Philippines were among nations controversially elected to the United Nations Human Rights Council on Friday, sparking sharp criticism from rights...

Pentagon steps up attacks in Somalia

WASHINGTON"•The US military has quietly increased the tempo of its operations in Somalia, conducting a growing number of drone strikes against Al-Qaeda affiliated Shabaab...

Somalis fleeing famine cloaked in rags and dust

BAIDOA, Somalia"•Mariam Ibrahim, her seven children and two neighbouring families were the last to leave their village in southwestern Somalia. They loaded their combined belongings...

1.4 million children face famine in four countries

Almost 1.4 million children suffering from severe malnutrition could die this year from famine in Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen, the UN children's...

At least 14 killed in Mogadishu car bombing

At least 14 people were killed on Sunday when a car packed with explosives blew up near a busy intersection in Mogadishu, officials and...

Parsing Trump

“Trump: no visas for 7 Muslim countries!” cried out the story headline in this paper last Sunday. As it turned out, the reality was less...

A blunt and counter productive travel ban

By Mohamed A. El-Erian Some bold and simple policies have merit; Friday’s executive order that temporarily bans the citizens of certain countries from coming to...

Somali pirate hostages return to Philippines

Five Filipino fishermen released after being held hostage by Somali pirates for nearly five years broke down as they were reunited with their families...

Five million Somalis now going hungry

Five million Somalis, or more than two out of five people in the country, do not have enough to eat, the United Nations said,...

Hotel attack kills at least 10

MOGADISHU—Gunmen holed up in a central Mogadishu hotel for more than 12 hours killed at least 10 people in the latest attack in Somalia...
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