Experts have warned that over three hundred and fifty thousand children could die in Somalia due to the effect of lack of rainfall for a long time. Adam Abdelmoula from the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said that about one point four million Somali children are facing extreme malnourishment. Severe acute malnutrition can…
At least 8 people have been killed in a bomb blast in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. The Islamist militant group al-Shabab said it carried out the attack The blast took place on a road by the entrance to a camp for the Somali Air Force which is close to the international airport.
Somalia has won the legal battle over maritime border dispute with Kenya of over forty years. The case concerned a section of the Indian Ocean, measuring about thirty-eight thousand square miles, which is believed to be rich in oil and gas. The International Court of Justice rule in favour of Somalia, although Kenya had raised questions of…
This report from Somalia says a suicide bomber has killed at least fifteen army recruits at a camp in the capital, Mogadishu. Reports say the suicide bombing was targeted at recruits who were lined up outside the General Degaban military training camp in Mogadishu. Officials at the Madina Hospital confirmed the number of dead bodies, while the…