Each week, flights leaving Bole International Airport for New Delhi, Mumbai and Dubai carry more than businesspeople and tourists. Among the passengers are members of the ailing middle class, clutching medical files and hard-won foreign currency to pay for treatment abroad. The quiet exodus is the uncomfortable backdrop to a bold ambition by Ethiopia’s contemporary…
A group of 298 petitioners from remote villages of Marsabit County in northern Kenya is suing BP and the Kenyan government over oil exploration waste from the 1980s that it says is causing a cancer cluster that has killed hundreds. Rising Cancer cases Residents and local health workers say cancer cases and deaths have risen…
On a warm morning on the outskirts of Hargeisa, in the Maroodi-Jeh region of Somaliland, 34-year-old Ayaan Dahir Ainan cradles her infant son as she waits outside the Hawadle Health Center. Her other five children sit nearby, wide-eyed and curious, as health workers unload vaccine coolers and malnutrition screening kits. Ayaan has been walking for…
Madaxweynaha JSL, Mudane Cabdiraxmaan Maxamed Cabdilaahi (Cirro), ayaa saaka subaxnimadii Dhakhtarka Guud ee Hargeysa ku booqday qaar ka mid ah dadkii ku dhaawacmay shaqaaqadii dhawaan ka dhacday magaalada Boorama. Madaxweynuhu waxa uu mid mid u booqday bukaannada, isaga oo u muujiyey dareen naxariis leh, isla markaana ka xog-waraystay xaaladdooda caafimaad. Waxa uu si gaar ah…
