I had migrated to North America in the early eighties and soon graduated from an American university in 1984. I had also worked in the USA for many years. But since I had always wanted my U.S. born children to learn more about Islam, my faith, I had often solicited jobs in the Middle [...]
The African Union and the famine: Look the other way The African Union has dismally failed to help the continent’s starving people THE UN estimates that 12m people across the Horn of Africa may still be at risk of starvation. Over 30,000 old people and children may already have died. The Dadaab refugee camp [...]
A project between Somaliland ( former British Protectorate ) and Italythrough a company based in Florence opens new possibilities for theexploration of an importantmineral in the Horn of Africa. Columbite or tantalite is used for themanufacture of computer processors, cell phones, optic fibres andother high tech products. The Italian partner in the project is Athena [...]
Currently the Somaliland (Horn of Africa) is experiencing the worst drought affecting both human and livestock. According to UNDP, Sool and Sanaag regions of Somaliland with an estimated population of 1.10 million people is in Acute Food and Livelihood Crisis (AFLC), Humanitarian Emergency (HE) and famine across urban, rural and IDP
Mr Sims said he thinks words spoken by Mr Jahan on Wednesday helped to calm rising racial tensions in the city. Tariq Jahan urged those involved in violence to "calm down" after his son and his two friends were murdered. Haroon Jahan, 21, died alongside brothers Shazad Ali, 30 and Adbul Musavir, 31. They were [...]
Africa's famine crisis is growing with more people being affected on a daily basis, aid organisations say. "There are internatally displaced people in every village in Somaliland. They have lost their livestock and have fled the drought to seek food for themselves and their children. They now depend on their host communities and have become [...]
Somalilanders who fled El Afwein after losing their stock and livelihood. Tasco While international aid agencies were scrambling to get food into the conflict ridden Horn of Africa region, mainly Somalia where a third of the population are on the brink of starvation and milions more in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda have been struck [...]
Hargeysa (OWN)- Somaliland is part of the Horn Africa where there is severe drought affecting thousands of people in the country due to the absence of seasonal rains for long period of time. Some areas in the country had received below average rain, which will not produce enough pasture and not filled the water wells. [...]
Whether you ask about the carcasses of livestock baked white in the sun, the gaggle of people crowding around the district commissioner's door, or the wards of malnourished children lying listlessly in hospital beds, the explanation given is always the same. "It's because of the drought", they say. The failure of rains across arid [...]
