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LONDON: Climate change and conflict are hitting efforts to tackle three of the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, the head of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria has warned. International initiatives to fight the diseases have largely recovered after being badly affected by the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Fund’s 2023 results report...

A network of Somali landowners, clan leaders, police, and other local authorities have systematically enforced a coercive system of taxes on U.S.-funded aid recipients displaced by drought and conflict, threatening to arrest, beat, or deny life-saving assistance to those who refuse to pay up, according to an independent review commissioned by the United Nations. The revelation,...

Italy’s prime minister has said that European countries must work together “to stop departures [from Africa]” and swiftly deport those turned down for asylum, who she said “threaten the future of Europe”, after thousands of people seeking refuge arrived on Lampedusa in the last week. Giorgia Meloni toured the tiny Sicilian island, which for years...

Morocco rejected on Saturday remarks by French Foreign Minister Catherina Colonna who siad President Emmanuel Macron will visit Morocco. A government official said Macron has neither an agenda nor a planned visit to Morocco, according to the Moroccan official news agency, MAP. “I am surprised that the French foreign minister has taken such a unilateral...

At least four people were killed and eight others wounded in a roadside blast on Saturday evening in Mandera County near the Kenya-Somalia border, police said on Sunday. A minibus that was traveling from Mandera to neighboring Wajir County was hit by a bomb set by suspected al-Shabab terrorists, according to a police report on...

Al-Shabab militants attacked convoys carrying Ethiopian soldiers in Somalia’s southwestern Bakool region early Sunday, Somali officials said. The ambush targeted two convoys, one traveling from the Somali town of Yeed to Wajid and the second convoy as it traveled from El Barde to the town of Huddur. Ethiopian troops have bases in Wajid and Huddur....

The decision by Jubaland State of Somalia President Ahmed Mohamed Islam to appoint an envoy to Kenya has caused controversy as the Federal Government of Somalia already has an ambassador in Kenya. The President appointed  Sadik Abdullahi Bogale as envoy to Kenya on Friday affirming that the diplomat’s core mandate will be to advance Jubaland...

In a critical move to ensure Somalia’s long-term stability and security, President Dr Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud has declared war against the notorious extremist group, Al-Shabaab. This decisive action calls for unified support from various segments of Somali society. Here’s why parliament, politicians, civil society, religious leaders, youth, and women should rally behind the President’s initiative....

The Somali army killed at least 30 al-Shabaab terrorists during a military operation on Saturday and liberated two villages from the al-Qaeda-affiliated terror group with the help of locals in the central state of Galgadud, the Information Ministry said. “The National Army and the brave local people have liberated the areas of Sargo and Qodqod...

Premier Hamza Abdi Barre discusses why, despite the international support for the army, al-Shabab remains powerful. For almost two decades, Somali forces, backed by the international community, have been fighting al-Shabab But despite international support, the armed group remains influential in the south and centre of Somalia. Now, the government is launching a sweeping offensive...