Track-It Somalia

The highly preventable disease survives in only Afghanistan, Nigeria and Pakistan. If we don't wipe it out now, a future epidemic could be devastating.As the World Health Assembly convenes in Geneva this week, one item on the agenda will be polio,...

CNN's Connie Chung told US citizen Martina Navratilova to go back to Czechoslovakia rather than complain so much

[The Star] The Kenya Wildlife Service has failed to contain elephant poaching in Kenya and it has now reached alarming levels, according to research by KWS scientists and their American counterparts using...

Expat millionaire 'thanked' by poor Somalis for being rich

Mariam was painfully thin. Several of her 13 children peered out from behind her with hollow eyes. "I am trying to save my children. We are not living. We are subhuman," she told me. Food aid was available in her village in Southern Ethiopia. But...

A Pakistani student is unable to accept his film festival award because he is denied the right to enter the U.S.

In a story released on the web, Omar Hammami recounts how a religious awakening after 9/11 transformed him into a homegrown

In a story released on the web, Omar Hammami recounts how a religious awakening after 9/11 transformed him into a homegrown

[IRIN] Mogadishu - It is Friday morning in Mogadishu and Lido beach presents a scene reminiscent of seaside towns around the world. At the top of the beach, women sit with their wares, selling water and...

The Obama administration is weighing policy changes that for the first time would lift a veil of secrecy from its program of drone strikes in U.S. global counterterrorism operations.