The United Nations says more than half of Somalia's population, four million people, is now in crisis as famine spreads, and 750,000 are at risk of death. The U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs in Somalia reported Monday that fa...
IN THE NEWS - UN Appeals for Famine Aid for Somalia 新闻报道 - 索马里两地陷入饥荒,联合国呼吁提供援助 This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. 这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道。 This week, the United Nations de...
As pro-government troops continue their push to oust Islamist insurgents from southern and central Somalia, Uganda and Burundi have pledged additional troops to reinforce the African Union peacekeeping mission. It has been slightly more than a month...
Somalia has one of the world's worst humanitarian disasters, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced due to conflict. Now, a prolonged drought is adding to the country's many problems. A top U.N. official says he wants the Somali people to kno...
A Somali woman holds her malnourished child at Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia, 26 Aug 2009 (file photo) Marking World Humanitarian Day, the United Nations said Somalia remains one of the neediest countries in the world, but increasing securit...
Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, is reportedly calm one day after African Union peacekeepers were seen fighting al-Shabab-led insurgents in the north of the city. The incident has raised questions about whether the peacekeepers exceeded their mandate,...
Islamist insurgents in Somalia have said that they will fight against any foreign troops that intervene in the country's conflict. On Saturday, Somalia's parliament appealed to countries in the region to intervene military to help the fledgling inte...
Somalia's government has played down reports that Ethiopian troops have re-entered the country in recent days. Islamist insurgents have clashed with pro-government militias near the Ethiopian border in central Somalia, and continue an assault on the...
The African Union's peacekeeping force in Somalia has reached 50 percent of authorized strength for the first time, with more reinforcements expected soon. Africa Union peacekeepers man entrance to the presidential palace in the embattled Somalia ca...
A former U.S. diplomat and a leading analyst on Somalia says the power and influence of the al-Qaida-linked al-Shabab group are diminishing, not increasing as some U.S. intelligence officials have recently warned. In an article featured in this mont...