With famine fast approaching in Somalia, there is still time to turn the tide by addressing the immediate needs of rural communities who are amongst those at greatest risk, the Food and Agriculture Organization
The government of Somalia has appealed for an "urgent international help' for people in drought-affected regions of the country saying that the "transitional federal government cannot address the
Authorities in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland in the northeast have appealed for international aid following the destruction of thousands of hectares of pasture and farmland by a locust infestation.<br><br> "We issued an appeal for help on September 23; Puntland alone cannot deal with this,' Hassan Arab, the deputy minister of rangeland and forestry, told the <font class="UCASE">un</font>'s Integrated Regional Information Networks. "This time the swarms are bigger and more destructive than the ones we had in June. They have also spread to a wider area,' he said.
www.pastoralists.orgChange in land-use patterns, increasing competition for land and other resources, shifting global markets, climate change
The new environment minister of Somalia's non-resident government has urged the UN to examine the nature of the possible hazardous waste washed ashore in the country following the recent tsunami
People from some overseas countries are up to four times more likely to develop tuberculosis (TB) in the UK than they would in the country they came from, says a recent research. The researchers
A widely-available anti-malarial drug has been blamed for some of the military excesses committed by United Nations troops in Somalia. The drug, mefloquine, is recognised by the World Health
The worst floods since 1961 have ravaged the Juba river valley in Somalia killing more than 2,000 people. Roads, airstrips and bridges were underwater in the towns of Bardera in the north to Jumaame
Kenyan Somalis use the court to prevent the Wildlife Services from translocating the endangered hirola antelope
There is hope yet for the malnourisheQ adults in Somalia, ~o had previ- ously been written off as doomed to die by the international aid agencies, who focussed all their atten- tion on the children.
Somalia needs International assistance again... this time not to protect it in the throes of a devastating famine but the attack of a swarm of voracious locusts, known as quela. "The farming
