Somali refugees who spent 10 days in a crowded transit centre in Dadaab expressed frustration and confusion at being told to go back to the Kenyan refugee camps after their planned journey home to […]
Saed Abdullah Aw-Aden, 13, paralysed from the waist down from polio, sets off every day in his customized three-wheeler feeling lucky to have the chance to go to school like the other neighbourhood children. […]
The Jubbaland State of Somalia announced on Monday that it would not allow Somali refugees from the Dadaab camps in Kenya to return until adequate support was provided to enable them to cope with […]
The largest group of Somali refugees returning to Somalia at one time set off on Thursday from the Dadaab refugee camps in north-eastern Kenya. The 1,605 refugees who had signed up for voluntary repatriation […]
Since Sadiyo Omar Aden, 33, left the refugee camps in Kenya in January to return to southern Somalia, her life has become physically much harder. But she says she appreciates her new found independence. […]
Parents and teachers are alarmed by the growing numbers of Somali refugee children quitting school in Dadaab because they have lost hope for the future due to the slated closure of the camps. Hussein […]
Somalia is at risk of sliding further into crisis as gains made since 2011’s famine are eroded by conflict, drought, floods, weak basic services, rising food prices, access constraints and reduced humanitarian funding. The […]
The biggest Mother and Child facility in East and Central Africa is coming up in the Somali capital Mogadishu in the coming months. According to pictures released by a Turkish humanitarian orgernisation, the facility […]
The Somali government has reaffirmed its commitment to eradicate female genital mutilation in the country, where around 98% of females between 15 and 49 have undergone cutting. The pledge was made at the first […]
