In the American state of Minnesota, the city of St. Louis Park, a Somali lady announced herself a candidate for mayor. She would become the state’s first Somali and Muslim mayor if elected.
After a break of three years due COVID pandemic,the Mogadishu Book Fair, an annual literary event that launched in 2015, was held last week. The fair, which brought together literary artists and young people meant to promote reading and Somali culture and history. It was held in the National Theatre of Somalia.
In April, Bilan Media, an all-female media outlet in Somalia, celebrated its first anniversary, bucking societal expectations about what a woman’s role should be.
According to a health study by the U.N. and Somali organisations, decades of violence and humanitarian crises have traumatised a large number of Somali.Harun Maruf from Washington,and Abdulkadir Zubeyr spoke
Aid workers say that Somalia’s record drought is particularly hard on women and girls, putting them at risk for gender-based violence and causing them to be pulled out of schools.
Half of Somalia, including Somaliland, has been hit by the Horn of Africa’s record-breaking drought. The country will experience its worst famine in fifty years, according to the U.N., if further relief does not arrive soon.
Thousands of Somalians are fleeing to neighboring country Kenya,for help as a result of Somalia’s record-breaking drought and hunger.
Nearly eight million Somalis, or half the population, have been affected by the record-breaking drought, and the Somali authorities are scrambling to avert famine. As thousands of people flee starvation in the countryside to displaced camps in the city, Baidoa, the largest city in Somalia’s South West state, is bearing the brunt.
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi, has called for a significant increase in international aid for communities in Kenya and Somalia that have been severely affected by the drought
Normally, Somalia is one of the main exporters of livestock to the Middle East, particularly around the Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha. However, a record drought in the Horn of Africa has killed millions of animals, leaving Somali livestock farmers in a difficult situation—some are even being forced to live in displaced persons’ camps