Tens of thousands of Somalis have died of hunger and related causes in the last few months, according to the Red Cross. It is hard to know the exact figure as they are scattered across a huge area from Mogadishu down to Jubaland and into northern Kenya. Many thousands, particularly children, are still at risk. [...]
President Goodluck Jonathan has been receiving calls from the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) and the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) to rally support for efforts towards alleviating the suffering of the victims of famine in Somalia. Separate statements by ACN National Publicity Secretary Lai Mohammed and the CPC former National Publicity Secretary Dennis Aghanya, [...]
British Airways has flown a relief aircraft full of emergency supplies and equipment provided by the United Nations and Oxfam to the drought hit areas of East Africa. A Boeing 747 freighter departed Stansted Airport in London on 12 August to Ethiopia where more than 12 million people are reported to be at risk from [...]
The worst drought in two decades has left about 11 million East Africans in acute need of food and water. Western NGOs are urging people to donate money while images of malnourished children appear on the world’s TV screens. Is Africa still the helpless and weak continent the media portrayed it to be twenty years [...]
Warnings have come from UN officials over the worsening of the humanitarian crisis in East Africa because of the harsh drought and conflict in Somalia, with concerns about tens of thousands of children dying. This is Africa’s worse drought in more than 60 years with the food crisis affecting more than 12 million people across [...]
Twenty years ago in May two remarkable events took place in the Horn of Africa. Somaliland re-established the old colonial boundary and declared itself independent from the rest of Somalia and in Ethiopia the Mengistu regime collapsed and was replaced by Meles Zenawi’s Tigrayan rule. The main city of Somaliland, Hargeis, had been utterly destroyed [...]
Pan Africanism for the new generation conference at University of Oxford marks a turning-point in the history of Pan-Africanism. To be held on the 04th June 2011, at St. Antony College, University of Oxford; the event shall unite students, activists, and academics across United Kingdom to reflect on challenges facing their countries at the turn [...]
Two Ugandan soldiers serving in the African Union’s peacekeeping force in Somalia (AMISOM) died in fighting with rebels for control of north Mogadishu last week, an AMISOM spokesman said Saturday 5th June. At least 11 people died when the al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab rebels and government forces shelled each other’s positions in the north of [...]
