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Millions at risk as US funds for water projects dry up
Published on 19/07/2025
» TAVETA, Kenya - The Trump administration’s decision to slash nearly all US foreign aid has left dozens of water and sanitation projects half-finished across the globe, creating new hazards for some of the people they were designed to benefit, Reuters has found.
New rider in town: Somalia's first woman equestrian turns heads
AFP, Published on 23/01/2025
» MOGADISHU — A strange sight appears on the streets of Mogadishu: a figure dressed all in black, including a cowboy hat, riding a horse through the beeping traffic of tuk-tuks and motorbikes.
Somalia beach attack kills 32 civilians
Reuters, Published on 03/08/2024
» MOGADISHU - At least 32 civilians were killed and 63 injured in an explosion on a popular beach in Somalia's capital Mogadishu late on Friday evening, police said, an attack blamed by Somali state media on the militant Islamist group al Shabaab.
World oblivious to risk of all-out war in Africa
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 02/05/2024
» 'We could see an all-out war between all the tribes and that is really the doomsday scenario. At this point, it's not unrealistic," the head of an international non-government organisation that is working in Sudan told the Al Jazeera news agency last week. (She asked them to withhold her name to protect her in-country team in North Darfur.)
Somalia joins East Africa trade bloc in 'milestone'
AFP, Published on 25/11/2023
» NAIROBI - Conflict-weary Somalia on Friday became the eighth member of the East African Community (EAC) in a move hailed as a milestone for the troubled Horn of Africa country.
Suicide truck bomber kills 13 in central Somalia: police
AFP, Published on 24/09/2023
» MOGADISHU - A suicide bomber killed 13 people and wounded dozens more in central Somalia Saturday after driving a truck packed with explosives towards a security checkpoint, triggering a blast that razed nearby buildings, police said.
Kenya mall siege survivor says retelling ordeal helps to heal
AFP, Published on 20/09/2023
» NAIROBI - "Please let them not kill us, let them not kill us."
'Vigilance is key': Al Shabaab threat rising in Kenya's northeast
AFP, Published on 23/07/2023
» NAIROBI: In Kenya's rural northeast, roadside bombs and beheadings that killed two dozen people last month appear to be part of a troubling escalation of violence by Al-Qaeda-linked Islamists, analysts say.
Ugandans bury more victims of horrific school massacre
AFP, Published on 19/06/2023
» KAMPALA: Grief-stricken Ugandans were on Monday burying more victims of last week's horrific school attack in the remote west of the country blamed on a notorious militia based in neighbouring Democratic Republic of Congo.
Anxious wait for news after 41 dead in Uganda school attack
AFP, Published on 18/06/2023
» MPONDWE, Uganda: Distraught families gathered at a mortuary in western Uganda on Sunday for any news of their loved ones after a militant attack left dozens of students dead and others missing.