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NAIROBI — A humanitarian group has raised alarm over rising malnutrition in refugee camps in northern Kenya. The International Rescue Committee said Thursday that children have been particularly affected as food rations fall due to decreased funding. The group said the number of patients admitted to camp hospitals for malnutrition …

ADDIS ABABA — Climate, armed conflict, high food prices and post-COVID-19 economic fall-out have caused record food insecurity in the Horn of Africa, with an estimated 60 million people urgently in need of help, UN humanitarian agencies have warned. “About five million children under the age of five are estimated …

LAS ANOD — News coming from the Sool region indicates that today another intense conflict erupted within the outskirts of Las Anod town, the regional capital, involving Somaliland and SSC forces. The renewed fighting, which broke out yesterday with no sign of resolution, is reported to have spread to surrounding …

UNITED NATIONS — World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain on Thursday called for a five-pronged action plan to address the serious and growing emergency in Somalia. First, she called on all UN member states to contribute to the humanitarian response plan for Somalia, which is seriously underfunded. The …

MOGADISHU — Somalia and international partners on Wednesday appealed for calm and restraint after at least 10 people were killed in fighting between the Puntland State government and opposition one day ago. In separate statements, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre and international partners including the European Union, African Union and …

MOGADISHU — The Speaker of the Somali parliament Sheikh Aden Madobe has called for an immediate end to the violence in Garowe, the capital of Puntland. Madobe said in a statement that war is not the solution to the political crisis, and called on the people of Puntland to work …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) said Sunday it has collaborated with King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KS Relief) to launch a project to enhance maternal and reproductive health for vulnerable and displacement-affected populations in Somalia. UNFPA Representative to Somalia Niyi Ojuolape said the initiative aims …

NAIVASHA — The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations on Thursday launched a project in Kenya’s lakeside town of Naivasha to protect staple food crops from devastating losses caused by the African armyworm, a pest which can destroy up to 100 percent of staple foods if left …

ADDIS ABABA — The adverse effect of climate change is further worsening the existing “widespread food insecurity” in the East Africa region, Executive Secretary of the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) Workneh Gebeyehu has said. Gebeyehu made the call in his address at the 14th Ordinary Assembly of the IGAD …

MOGADISHU — A total of 10 people including soldiers were killed and several others injured on Tuesday as a fierce gun battle between Somali National Army (SNA) and regional forces broke out in the port town of Barawe in southern Somalia, local authorities said. Mohamed Ibrahim Barre, governor of Lower …