One of the world’s largest foundations will spend $1.3 billion over the next three years to acquire and deliver COVID-19 vaccines for more than 50 million people in Africa. It’s a first-of-its-kind effort for a Western nonprofit to bolster Africa’s lag…
NAIROBI, KENYA – By any measure, the number of those being vaccinated against COVID-19 in Africa are running behind the rest of the world. Health experts warn that failure to inoculate the 1.3 billion people on the continent will have a huge impact on …
NEW YORK – The departing prosecutor of the International Criminal Court has called on Sudan’s government to transfer four men wanted for war crimes in Darfur to The Hague.”Sudan has to tangibly demonstrate that the new Sudan is now a fully fledged memb…
MEKELLE, EDAGA HAMUS, ETHIOPIA – Fifteen-year-old Beriha lost one eye in the war and was permanently blinded in the other. And like many of the children hospitalized in Mekelle, the capital of Ethiopia’s Tigray region, she traveled for weeks to get her…
WASHINGTON – In September 2019, Simon Marks moved to Ethiopia, drawn by the rapid changes following its shift in leadership and declaration of peace with neighboring Eritrea after a war and decades of tensions. Since then, he has reported on the widesp…
GENEVA – The U.N. refugee agency says survivors of the Saturday massacre in a Burkina Faso village are in desperate need of humanitarian aid. Unidentified gunmen attacked the village of Solhan in Burkina Faso’s northeast Sahel region on June 5. They r…
BELEDWEYNE:–Soldiers of the Djiboutian Armed Forces serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Sunday celebrated the 44th anniversary since the formation of their country’s military.Speaking at a ceremony held at the AMISOM Sector 4…
Mogadishu(SONNA)-Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Hussein Roble on Monday received Mohamed Ahmed Othman, United Arab Emirates’ Ambassador to Somalia and discussed enhancing ties between the two states and UAE’s to people …
Two opposition parties in the self-declared republic of Somaliland said Sunday they had formed a coalition giving them a majority in parliament following long-delayed local and legislative elections. The territory in the north of Somalia declared indep…
Mogadishu(SONNA)-Minister of Labour and Social Affairs of Somalia, H.E. Abdiwahab Ugas Hussein on Sunday held discussion with Richard Danziger, Chief of United Nations’ Migration agency for Somalia in Mogadishu, SONNA reported.Both officials focused th…
GAROWE, SOMALIA – Two opposition parties in Somalia’s breakaway Somaliland region won a majority of seats in the region’s first parliamentary election in 16 years, the National Electoral Commission said on Sunday.Out of parliament’s 82 seats, the Somal…
African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Sector II Commander Brigadier Jeff Nyagah who is also the Contingent Commander of the Kenyan troops serving in Somalia under AMISOM visited the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF) troops deployed in various Forward Oper…