East Africa’s Huge Locust Outbreak Now Spreads to Congo
KAMPALA, UGANDA - The U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization says a small group of desert locusts has entered Congo, marking the first time the voraciou…
Helping vulnerable displaced persons in Baidoa
Insecurity, recurring natural disasters and large-scale displacements are increasing in Somalia. According to OCHA, the total number of IDPs currentl…
Iran shuts schools, cultural centres as corona virus kills six
A sixth death from the corona virus has been reported in Iran as authorities in more than a dozen affected provinces ordered the closure of schools, univers…
The prime minister visits National Army hospital to oversee the injured soldiers
MOGADISHU (SONNA) - The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Hassan Ali Khayre, has visited the Somali National Army hospital In mogadish…
Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa. The UN is very worried.
Massive swarms of desert locusts are devouring their way through East Africa and have just made landfall in South Sudan, the country's agriculture minist…
Foreign minster receives the new reperesentative of WHO to Somalia
Mogadishu(SONNA) The minster of foreign affiars and international cooperation for the Federal govenment of Somalia H.E Amb Ahmed Isse Awad received Dr M…
At least 10 killed in church attack in Burkina Faso
Dakar Senegal At least 10 people were killed in an attack on a church in northern Burkina Faso, local media reported Sunday, citing security sources.
Unide…
Rights Groups Demand End to Kenyan Police Extrajudicial Killings
NAIROBI - Kenyan police killed 107 people last year, according to a report released Friday from a coalition of Kenyan human rights groups.
Most of those kil…
AU Member States expresse their solidarity with the Chinese government and people in the efforts to counter spread of coronavirus
Mogadishu(SONNA) The 36th Ordinary Session of the AU Executive Council issued a communique, in which the Ministers of Foreign Affairs of AU Member States …
Somalia: Father chose executioners for child rapists
BOSSASSO (Somalia), The father of a 12-year-old Somali girl said her family appointed the executioners to carry out the killing of the two men convicted of …