Reports

Amid the prospect of widespread famine in Somalia, UK announces £25 million aid package

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Somalia is facing the prospect of widespread famine, with 350,000 children's lives at risk if no action is taken, according to United Nations.

Abdulkadir Mohamed: I have a dream to address the needs of visually impaired persons through education

MOGADISHU - Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdullahi was born in the rural area of the Mudug region, Puntland, in Somalia, in 1992, to a family of pastoralists.

Somalia: New data show how drought is driving up acute hunger

ROME (HORN OBSERVER) The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today warned that dire new hunger data out of Somalia sheds additional light on extended drought's crippling impacts on the Horn of Africa region and underscores the criticality of large-scale agricultural aid…

Amid worsening hunger crisis, African countries meet at UN forum on food and agriculture

MALABO (HORN OBSERVER) On Equatorial Guinea's capital island of Malabo, agriculture ministers from across Africa are meeting this week to discuss solutions to the growing hunger crisis, at a conference convened by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).

Somalia expels corrupt AU diplomat over leaked voice recording

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Somalia Federal Government on Thursday expelled top African Union diplomat in Somalia, Francisco Madeira after a leaked voice recording circulated online in which he insulted certain communities in Somalia and the country's prime minister.

Contest for interim Somali Parliament Speaker taints Immigration and Naturalisation Dept

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) The heated contest on who will be chairing the first session of the recently selected Somalia Federal Parliament has now taken to a new direction.

Food insecurity rapidly worsening, increasing risk of famine in Somalia - Report

MOGADISHU (HORN OBSERVER) Water shortages, livestock deaths and skyrocketing food prices exacerbated by ongoing conflict and global supply shocks have caused a rapid deterioration of food security according to a report issued today jointly by FAO's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU)…

NISA-al-Shabaab partnered bombings kill 50 including a critic female lawmaker in Somalia

BELEDWEYNE (HORN OBSERVER) The National Intelligence and Security Agency (NISA) partnered with the militant group al-Shabaab to carry out deadly bombings in central Somalia on Wednesday, according to security experts and police sources.

African Union and European Union step up digital cooperation following EU-AU Summit

BRUSSELS (HORN OBSERVER) Digital cooperation is a cornerstone of the Africa-EU strategic partnership. This was underlined by representatives from the European Union and the African Union on the 18th of March 2022 at the Africa-Europe Digital for Development (D4D) Hub Multi-Stakeholder Forum.

African countries to define regional agrifood systems priorities

MALABO (HORN OBSERVER) More than 50 African countries will come together at the 32nd Session of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations' Regional Conference for Africa (ARC32) to define regional priorities in agrifood systems transformation.