Abdi Ahmed Farah, 70, has watched most of his hundreds of goats perish. For three years, steady rain has eluded his part of Somalia โ a reality he never imagined possible. Now, burdened by debt from buying water, his reservoir is almost empty. His family subsists on a single daily meal of rice with sugar…
For Somalia’s malnourished children, already suffering the twin catastrophes of looming famine and radical cuts in foreign aid, the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran means more than soaring petrol pump prices; it โis a matter of life and death. Shortages of lifesaving therapeutic foods exacerbated by shipping disruptions are forcing clinics to turn away severely malnourished…
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…
