The severe drought in northern Kenya last year and cattle rustling have wiped out more than half of Halake Wario's livestock, but failed to dampen...

Cattle rustling in the Horn of Africa, formerly a means of replenishing animals for subsistence, is now widely practised as a commercial activity,...

The deployment of African Union (AU) troops to Mogadishu signals a fresh effort to contain the volatile security situation in the Somali capital, but...

The African Union's (AU) new chairman, President John Kufuor of Ghana, appealed on Tuesday to African governments to contribute troops to a planned...

A disabled cargo ship packed with hundreds of would-be migrants to Europe has been drifting off the coast of Mauritania for more than two weeks...

A United Nations fund, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF), managed by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), has...

The Majlis Khuddam-ul and Atfalul Ahmadiyya (Children and Youth Wing) recently concluded its 23rd annual National Ijtema at Tahir Ahmadiyya Muslim...

Donors pledged US$1.4 billion on Wednesday for humanitarian aid in 2007 at a conference organised by the United Nations Office for the Coordination...

Scores of women and children have been separated from their families or wounded in fighting between Somali government forces and remnants of the...

Fighting in southern Somalia has hampered efforts to confirm a possible spread of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) from neighbouring Kenya to the Lower Juba...