Africa
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1.6KBreaking the silence in the world capital of female genital mutilation
98% of Somali women and girls have undergone Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) - the highest prevalence rate of anywhere in the world.
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1.3KDeadly blast targets police near Kenya-Somalia border
Tuesday's incident happened outside Kiunga town
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1.2KDeadly car bomb attack rocks Somalia’s Mogadishu
The blast comes less than a week after al-Shabab gunmen carried out an overnight siege on a popular restaurant in Mogadishu
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936Feed the starving? Guns are the true cause of hunger and famine
Soldiers of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army in a trench in Lelo, outside Malakal, in northern South Sudan.
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1.2KMillions are on the brink of starvation in east Africa. We must act fast
Farmers give bottled water to their goats in Magadi, Kenya, in March 2017. ‘We can do something to reduce the scale and...
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2.9KIt’s right for Britain to reach out to Africa – wrong to send Boris Johnson
Boris Johnson visits a school for disabled people in Accra.
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978‘Countless lives at stake’ warn NGOs as hunger in east Africa prompts major appeal
People wait for food and water in eastern Ethiopia, 28 January. Drought has left 5.6 million people in the country in urgent...
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1.0KIn Somalia, little sign of promised food aid for 6 million people facing starvation
Saalax Abdi Muxumed is one of the millions of Somalis suffering the consequences of severe drought.
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1.0KTrump travel ban devastating for Somali refugees cleared for new life in US
Relatives bid farewell to refugees leaving for the US from the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya as part of the UNHCR resettlement...