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Somalia's famine: their agony and our historic part in it
Famine is not remote. Famine is us, our history, our involvement and calls down our duty, writes Jon Snow.
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Refugees who have become separated from family during war and disasters can now use a mobile phone web service to try to find them again. Around 200,000 refugees are expected to use the site.
Somali human rights worker Fartun Adan says “the world needs to wake up” to the increasing danger for women in her homeland.
A massive truck bomb kills at least 70 people outside government buildings in the centre of Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Al-Shabaab fighters have claimed responsibility.
A Kenyan man has denied kidnapping British holidaymaker Judith Tebbutt, whose husband David was shot dead in a remote resort.
A Somali Islamist group denies kidnapping a British woman at a remote holiday resort in Kenya.
The Disasters Emergency Committee tells Channel 4 News that just over a quarter of money it has raised towards the Horn of Africa Appeal is going to Somalia, the epicentre of the drought crisis.
Jonathan Rugman blogs from Somalia on the heart-turning decisions some families are having to make as famine threatens the lives of millions of people in east Africa.
Famine is not remote. Famine is us, our history, our involvement and calls down our duty, writes Jon Snow.
Tens of thousands of people have already died in Somalia as the UN declares an official famine. A key figure leading the African Union’s efforts tells Channel 4 News “we’ll be burying children soon”.
A tearful Jerry Rawlings, Ghana’s former president, tells Jon Snow that “We’ll be burying lots of children soon” unless aid money and medical supplies are received to alleviate the Somalia famine.
The case is intriguing, partly because it provides some of the first indications that extremists in Somalia and Yemen may be linking up; and partly because Ahmed Abdulkadir Warsame’s arrival for trial in New York around midnight on July 4th reignites the debate about the legal justification for flying military detainees into US jurisdiction from overseas.
Every time Abdinasir Ibrahim pulls on his running shoes, he risks his life. In Somalia, training for the Olympics is a dangerous business, as Jamal Osman discovered.
I suppose that our team too remains trapped here until The Red Star can safely dock and then leave for Benghazi in the east.
EXCLUSIVE: Jonathan Rugman, reporting from Nairobi, meets the former London minicab driver who claims to have masterminded the release of the British yachting couple Paul and Rachel Chandler.
Paul and Rachel Chandler are in “good spirits” their family says in a statement, passing on the couples’ thanks to all those who helped secure their release.