Africa

Last year just 11.4% of registered nurses in the UK were male. Continued stereotyping is partly to blame Efforts to promote gender equality in workplaces of all kinds may be widespread, but the number of men in nursing remains stubbornly low. Last year just 11.4%...

More than 6.2 million people in need of urgent humanitarian aid, including nearly three million who are going hungry. Somalia's new leader has declared a national disaster for a prolonged drought that has forced about half of the country's population to seek urgent food assistance...

Thousands of refugee children are being abused, exploited and arbitrarily detained in Libya, UNICEF reports. Refugee children and women are routinely suffering sexual violence, exploitation, abuse and detention along the Central Mediterranean migration route, UNICEF warned in a new report. In the report, titled "A Deadly...

By:Byron Connolly (CIO) “There’s literally nothing that can happen in business that can even compare to the challenges I faced early in my life." Somalian born senior tech executive Jamila Gordon, owes her life to her quick-thinking father. Just before the Somali Civil War broke out...

Riyadh BY:Ghanem Al-Mutairi Somali President Mohammed Abdullah Mohammed Farmaajo request for mediation Arabia and the United Arab Emirates to persuade not to complete the establishment of a military base in "Somaliland". Site Yalla Affrica cited in this context, a report translated by Riyadh Post, which quoted...

  Hundreds of people mourned the Somali Bantu cab driver who died after he was beaten in Beltzhoover, offering a solemn prayer Sunday afternoon at the Islamic Center of Pittsburgh. While two of the four suspects were still at large, many at the Oakland mosque helped...

Over 100 Somali refugees fleeing conflict in Yemen arrive in Mogadishu from UNSOM on Vimeo. One hundred and six Somali refugees returned to Somalia today after fleeing the ongoing conflict in Yemen. The returnees, who consisted of the elderly, women and children, arrived at Mogadishu’s Aden...

  A car laden with explosives has blown up near an army checkpoint outside Mogadishu, wounding at least four soldiers, according to a Somali security officer. Soldiers reportedly chased the driver before he detonated the explosives. "We received information of the car bomb and we pursued it,...

The U.S. Department of State warns U.S. citizens of the risks of travel to Eritrea. The Government of Eritrea restricts the travel of all foreign nationals in the country, including U.S. diplomats. These restrictions make it difficult for the U.S. Embassy to provide emergency...

  WASHINGTON – The Pentagon wants to expand the military's ability to battle Al Qaeda-linked militants in Somalia, potentially putting U.S. forces closer to the fight against a stubborn extremist group that has plotted attacks against America, senior U.S. officials said. The recommendations sent to the...