By Abby Maxman NEW YORK, Sep 27 2022 (IPS) - Last week, as world leaders gathered in New York for the 77th United Nations General Assembly, one topic came up more than most: looming famine. That’s...
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How Aid in Cash, Not Goods, Averted a Famine in Somalia
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 8 2017 (IPS) - In February, when the government of Somalia sounded an alarm to the UN about risks of a famine in the country, the UN’s Office of Coordination of Humanitarian...
U.S. Cuts Off Economic Lifeline to Somalia
By Lisa Vives NEW YORK, Feb 6 2015 (IPS) - A California bank is shutting down a money transfer operation that brought desperately needed funds from the Somali Diaspora to their relations in the Horn...
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Somali Refugees Find an Unlikely Home ... In Istanbul
By Hannah Tayson ISTANBUL, Jul 29 2014 (IPS) - Among the labyrinth of winding narrow streets just outside a major shopping centre in the Kumkapi neighbourhood of Istanbul is a rundown road, congested...
Somalia’s Sacked Soldiers Threaten Mogadishu’s Security
MOGADISHU, Feb 27 2014 (IPS) - Residents of Mogadishu have raised concerns about their safety after the Somali army recently fired hundreds of disgruntled soldiers, many of whom are believed to still...
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Somalis Caught Between Terrorism and a Border Dispute
By Miriam Gathigah NAIROBI, Oct 8 2013 (IPS) - Somali militia groups are beginning to operate in Kenya’s remote and arid North Eastern Province, an area that borders southern Somalia – a former...
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Somalia Takes Teaching to the Extreme
By Ahmed Osman MOGADISHU, Oct 4 2013 (IPS) - Mukhatar Jama has been teaching at a secondary school in Mogadishu for the past decade. Religious education is part and parcel of the curriculum of all...
Healthcare Loses Support in Somalia
By Ahmed Osman MOGADISHU, Sep 30 2013 (IPS) - Maryan Yusuf, 39, is weak and barely able to speak because of her excruciating pain. A few hours earlier she delivered a baby at Somalia’s Afgooye...
Somalia’s Fractures Getting Hard to Heal
By Ahmed Osman MOGADISHU , Sep 6 2013 (IPS) - The system of government remains the biggest political obstacle in Somalia as key political players boycotted the government’s current national...
‘Biggest Guns’ to Control Somalia’s South
By Ahmed Osman MOGADISHU, Sep 2 2013 (IPS) - Somali clan leaders say that an Aug. 27 agreement between the government and only a few leaders from the country’s three southern Jubba regions, which...
Somali Officials Back Terrorists Against Aid
ADDIS ABABA , Aug 16 2013 (IPS) - Foreign aid workers are increasingly becoming targets of corrupt officials within the Somali government and the Islamist extremist group Al-Shabaab. “The government...
Extremist Violence Returns to Hit Mogadishu
MOGADISHU/NAIROBI, Aug 3 2013 (IPS) - As the Somali government announced it would set up a coastguard to combat piracy in this Horn of African nation, insecurity is emerging as the biggest challenge...
Warlords and Vague Constitution to Blame for Renegade Somali State
MOGADISHU, May 31 2013 (IPS) - Attempts by clan elders and militia commanders in southern Somalia to form an autonomous state, without the consent of the central government but with the apparent...
Somali Journalist Living and Working on the Edge
By Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU, Apr 29 2013 (IPS) - When journalist Mohamed Ibrahim Rageh was shot by unknown assailants outside his home in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Apr. 22, his name was...
Wind Brings Light to Somaliland
By Ed McKenna HARGEISA, Apr 22 2013 (IPS) - A wind turbine, situated some 20 kilometres outside of Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa, has become a significant totem of the country’s changing energy...
Somali Women Cashing in on Business
By Abdurrahman Warsameh MOGADISHU, Apr 22 2013 (IPS) - In the Hamarweyne market, Mogadishu’s largest, 24-year-old Maryama Yunis is finding success with her tiny cosmetic store. The young Somali...
Somaliland Rising from the Ruins of Somalia
HARGEISA, Dec 3 2012 (IPS) - As Somalia starts to emerge from its quagmire of instability and chaos, 20 years of relative peace and stability are starting to pay dividends for its close neighbour...
Donors Urged to Give Space to New Somali Govt
By Carey L. Biron WASHINGTON, Sep 19 2012 (IPS) - Both the U.S. government and the United Nations warned Wednesday that new fighting in a key rebel-held area of Somalia needed to ensure the safety of...
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"Famine may have ended, but for us hunger has not"
MOGADISHU, Jul 20 2012 (IPS) - One-year-old Miriam Jama is a symbol of life in Somalia after the famine. Born just as the United Nations World Food Programme declared famine in this Horn of Africa...
Tighter security ignores root causes of Somali crises
By Bari Bates BRUSSELS, Apr 13, 2012 (IPS) - As Western forces step up their military presence in Somalia, locals and experts are worried that the country – struggling under multiple crises from...