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Somalia’s mayors face a unique landscape of governance challenges. As they strive for better urban development outcomes, they must navigate complex political dynamics and conflict situations. Further, they need to manage limited fiscal resources and the impacts of more frequent and intense climate-related disasters.

As much as 85% of the Somali city of Beledweyne is now submerged by flood water and around 250,000 people have been evacuated to higher ground, following

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War-torn and unstable countries receive only a tiny fraction of international funding to tackle climate change, leaving their people highly vulnerable to disasters made worse by global warming

Intense rainfall, fueled by the El Niño weather pattern, has led to extensive flooding throughout the Horn of Africa.

Intense rainfall, fueled by the El Niño weather pattern, has led to extensive flooding throughout the Horn of Africa leading to death, destruction, and displacement across Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia.

A former child refugee from Somalia has been named as this year's winner of the prestigious UNHCR Nansen Refugee Award. Abdullahi Mire, 36, was recognized for bringing 100,000 books to his compatriots languishing in sprawling camps in Kenya. "Last year, 2022, Angela Merkel, the former Federal Chancellor of Germany, won the award and today a…

Reporters from Bilan report from around Somalia as ‘once-in-a-century’ floods hit a country devastated by a six-year drought

The shocks from a relentless climate crisis have upended the lives of millions in Somalia and the Horn of Africa region.

The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is issuing an alarm in response to the severe flooding wreaking havoc across the Hiraan, Bakool, Bay, and Gedo regions of Somalia. The recent heavy seasonal Deyr rains (October to December) have resulted in catastrophic consequences, affecting over 1.77 million people who have lost their homes and properties, or their animals and crops, claiming at least 41 lives, and displacing over 649,000 individuals from their homes.