Warsame recently lost his young son after arriving at a camp in Baidoa (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) As Muslims across the globe were celebrating the end of Ramadan last month, distraught father Warsame was grieving for his son. His six-year-old boy died during
Little Maido is being treated with special milk for severe malnutrition (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) Infants with sunken eyes and wasted muscles lie unnaturally still and silent, their energy sapped by severe malnutrition. Their frail bodies are weakened by dehydration and diarrhoea. Some
Mother Orey is too malnourished to produce milk for her newborn (Image: Jonathan Buckmaster) Baby Suldhano is only two days old and will not officially be named for another five days in accordance with her parents’ customs. Yet her young life is
Witnesses say at least nine people, including five soldiers, were killed Tuesday when an explosives-laden car targeted the entrance of a guest house in the southern Somalia town of Bardhere in Gedo region. Suleyman Hassan, who works with the district commissioner, told
The United States is increasing its military assistance to Somalia as the country sees success in battling what the U.S. calls “the largest and most deadly al-Qaida network in the world.” Sixty-one tons of weapons and ammunition arrived Tuesday in Mogadishu, the
Food security experts say life remains “extremely critical” for more than 6 million hungry people in Somalia’s historic drought, but they no longer project famine for the worst-hit population of nearly a quarter-million people between April and June. The latest assessment released
The U.S. killed 12 al-Shabaab terrorist fighters with an airstrike in Somalia at the request of the country’s government, the U.S. announced Sunday. U.S. forces carried out the strike on Friday, hitting a remote location west of Hobyo, Somalia, U.S. Africa Command
The leaders of Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya have agreed on a joint “search and destroy” military campaign against the Somali al-Shabab Islamic militant group that has carried out attacks in the region — including firing mortars near the meeting venue in
Almost seven million of the east African nation’s population of 17m are facing acute food shortages. And some 1.8 million children are thought to be at risk of malnutrition, according to the United Nations. Somalia’s drought is the worst in 40 years,
A ship laden with 25,000 tons of grain has arrived in Somalia, the third such vessel to deliver vital shipments of food in accordance with Volodymyr Zelensky’s pioneering Grain from Ukraine programme. The delivery was made possible with support from the UN