Do Muslims Really Care About Somalia?
BY AKBAR AHMED , FRANKIE MARTIN A young, rail-thin, and gaunt Somali woman, cradling her starving child in her arms, looks straight into the camera. Her eyes are dead; she…
Does Turkey accept refugees from Somalia now?
Not that I know of. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan was in New York yesterday, speaking to the U.N. General Assembly. He described the poverty he saw in Somalia and…
Tackling the evil of famine in the Horn of Africa
By Kingsley Ighobor Images of starving Somalis have shaken the conscience of the world: stomachs flattened by hunger, sagging flesh and noses dripping in mucus, fed on by opportunistic toilet…
Somalia was a sideshow in the war on terror – and is paying a colossal price
By: Madeleine Bunting Internally displaced women carry jerry-cans of water on their backs from a well in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu, September 2011. Photograph: Ismail Taxta/REUTERS In the past three months,…
UN: 750,000 Somalis Could Soon Die of Famine
by Kristina C. The famine that has hit Somalia hard since this past July has spread to a sixth part of the country. On Monday, United Nations officials said that…
Let Somalis Manage Aid for Development, Doctor Says
Dr. Hawa Abdi is a woman of many firsts, including being Somalia’s first female gynecologist and establishing one of the country’s first NGOs. Along with her daughters, Deqa and Amina…
Somalia: Stop Unfair Trials, Executions
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government (TFG) should ensure that its military court respects basic fair trial standards, and should immediately halt executions, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch said today. The…
Charge Somalia`s Leaders in the Hague
by Bo Goransson And Cecilia Backlander It is not drought or nature that causes starvation on the Horn of Africa. War, conflict and irresponsible leaders are to blame for the…
Cholera Epidemic in Somalia Will Spread, United Nations Warns
by Sheila Ring The cholera epidemic, which is killing children who are weak from starvation, is expected to spread, the United Nations (UN) has warned. Dozens of hungry children in…
Somalia: End War Crimes to Help Tackle Famine
Abuses by All Sides Contribute to Current Crisis (Nairobi) – All parties to Somalia’s armed conflict have committed serious violations of the laws of war that are contributing to the…