A joint venture between two banks and a major hospital in India is set to construct a multimillion-dollar hospital in Hargeisa, the capital of the Republic of Somaliland, following an…
Somalia’s first large-scale factory producing much-needed medical oxygen has been opened in the capital, Mogadishu. The plant, which is at the city’s main child and maternal health hospital, was made…
Ismaïl Omar Guelleh, the President of Djibouti proceeded yesterday in Doraleh, with the inauguration of a seawater desalination plant. The first of its kind in the region, this plant, which…
Action to control unprecedented desert locust infestations in the Horn of Africa last year has protected crops and livelihoods, but funding is needed to sustain operations against new incursions, the…
Conflict of interest? Who is behind the recent lies and disinformation concocted by Michelle Bachelet of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights against the Ethiopian gov’t? Michelle Bachelet is…
The complaint was lodged at the International Criminal Court in the Hague A Nobel peace prize nominee has accused the director-general of the World Health Organization of allegedly aiding genocide…
Doctor at regional capital’s main hospital offers dramatic account of dire medical shortages, threat of starvation and widespread fear during the conflict. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia – It has been more than…
Addis Abeba, December 11/2020 –Over 50 million people are in need of immediate food assistance in the Horn East and Central Africa, with numbers expected to rise significantly as the region braces…
Ethiopia accuses Tedros Adhanom of soliciting diplomatic, military support for Tigray People’s Liberation Front World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom has been “fully engaged in soliciting diplomatic and military…
Mogadishu (CNN)Having scraped money together following medical studies abroad, Somali doctor Abdullahi Sheikdon Dini opened Mogadishu’s first advanced diagnostic laboratory in January. Its arrival could hardly have been better timed…
(CNN)Ethiopia can jail people for up to two years if they deliberately violate restrictions aimed at curbing the spread of Covid-19, the attorney general’s office said, amid concern that citizens…
East Africa is on the verge of another locust invasion, the worst in 25 years, says the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The latest report says more swarms…
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Ethiopia has raised its health budget by 46% this year after the coronavirus crisis exposed the need for more equipment, facilities and personnel, Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed…
Horn of Africa Update on Coronavirus deaths as of October 11, 2020 Ethiopia deaths 1,277Somalia deaths 3,745Djibouti deaths 61Somaliland deaths 32Eritrea deaths 0 As the threat of a COVID-19 pandemic…
‘The guards just throw the bodies out back as if it was trash,’