COVERAGE

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somalia will next month host a two-day international conference aimed at stopping illegal charcoal trade in the Horn of Africa nation, organizers said Saturday. The May 7-8 conference, which will bring together Somali environment experts and international donor partners, will discuss ways of stopping the illegal trade, …

BELEDWEYNE (SOHA) – Mohamed Abdi Ware, the regional President of Hirshabelle, has said that nearly 26,000 families in Beledweyne have been displaced by heavy flooding. President Ware said that torrential downpours have forced the banks of the Shabelle river to burst, washing away homes and livelihoods in the process. “The …

TIMISOARA, ROMANIA – Somali refugee Fadumo Nour Zein, 81, sits on a metal bed in a UNHCR centre in western Romania, patting the knee of her 46-year-old daughter Fatima on her left and grandson Ali on her right. After years of uncertainty, she is finally happy. For 20 years Fadouma did …

NIAMEY, NIGER –  Somali mother of two Amina* was strong and vigorous before she fell into the hands of Libyan traffickers. After more than a year of relentless beatings and electric shocks, she is now broken and unable to walk. ”When I arrived in Libya, I was walking, nobody had …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is devastated by the loss of one of its staff, Abdulhafid Yusuf Ibrahim, in Mogadishu. He passed away Wednesday night after succumbing to injuries from an improvised explosive device, which detonated while Mr Ibrahim was in his private car …