Half a million children in Somalia under five are at risk of dying from famine, a number unseen in any country this century, as the region faces a fifth consecutive failed rainy season.

Waeys Ali Mohamed, a 4-year-old boy with autism who drowned June 9, is mourned by Somali parents of children with autism who are wanting to find ways to prevent future tragedies. (Submitted photo ...

Some 1.4 million children in drought-stricken Somalia currently are or are projected be acutely malnourished this year, according to UNICEF.

MOGADISHU, Somalia, July 29, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Hunger and drought in Somalia are destroying livelihoods and have forced more than 800,000 people to flee their homes, with more than 7 million (1 ...

MOGADISHU, Somalia — The cries of distressed children filled the ward for the severely malnourished. Among the patients was 1-year-old Maka’il Mohamed.

A Somali girl carries a child at a camp for internally displaced people in Somalia. U.S. Special Forces and Somali troops killed five people, some of whom were children, during a raid last week on ...

MOGADISHU, SOMALIA — Even in a country that has endured so much suffering, few images could more tragically convey the senseless violence gripping Somalia today than the expressionless stare of ...

JIM GEHRZ [email protected] Burnsville/March 26, 2009/1:30PM Six-year-old Abdullahi, son of Somali-American mother Idil Abdull, peers from the living room window of the family s Burnsville home.

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Those worries have extended into Minnesota’s Somali community, where the disorder is highly stigmatized, said Asli Ashkir, senior RN consultant with the Minnesota Department of Health. A University of ...

— -- Weeks into Minneapolis' worst measles outbreak in more than 25 years, public health experts are still struggling to get some families in the Somali community to vaccinate their children. ...

Isaq Abdi works 15-hour days as the right-hand boy of a Somali woman who sells the narcotic leaf khat. Abdi tends the kiosk and delivers the mild stimulant to customers.