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SOMALIA

Indian commandos stand guard with a group of detained pirates after the Indian Navy freed an Iranian fishing vessel hijacked by Somali pirates on Tuesday.
WORLD
Feb 4, 2024
As navies focus on Red Sea Houthis, Somali pirates may rebound
Attacks off the coast of Somalia peaked around 200 incidents a year from 2009 through 2011 — there have already been three in 2024
MORE SPORTS / Athletics
Aug 4, 2023
Somalia suspends athletics chair after sprinter's slow time goes viral
Somalia's minister of youth and sports suspended the chairwoman of the country's athletics federation and is set to initiate legal action after a female sprinter took more than 21 seconds to complete the 100 meter at the World University Games.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 27, 2023
Scientists show how climate change affected East Africa’s drought
The deadly combination of high temperatures and low rainfall that affected millions in the Horn of Africa was made about 100 times more likely by climate change.
Japan Times
WORLD / ANALYSIS
Feb 6, 2023
How can drought-parched Somalia break out of endless crisis?
To build a more resilient Somalia, "we have to change the narrative that local people do not have the capacity to manage finance," the head of a climate change nonprofit said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 10, 2022
Horror of a hotter world on stark display in parched eastern Africa
The grim reality confronting east Africa is a frightening portent of what could come elsewhere due to climate change.
Japan Times
WORLD
Oct 31, 2022
Car bombs at busy Somalia market intersection kill at least 100, president says
The al-Qaida-linked group al Shabaab, which is seeking to topple the government and establish its own rule based on an extreme interpretation of Islamic law, claimed responsibility.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jul 4, 2022
Putin’s media blitz on Africa food crisis sparks alarm in Europe
Russian diplomats have gone on a media offensive in recent months to push the narrative that sanctions, rather than Russian blockades, are causing shortages.
Japan Times
WORLD / FOCUS
Jun 20, 2022
A Somali boy's mission to find food as climate change takes its toll
Millions in Somalia are in the crosshairs of what some aid workers are calling the "The Three Cs": climate change, costs and conflict.
JAPAN
Apr 3, 2021
Two GSDF officers infected with coronavirus while on anti-piracy mission in Africa
The two who tested positive are in their 20s and 30s had complained of a fever, headache and other symptoms on Friday. Both are in stable condition.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Jul 1, 2020
Taiwan strengthens ties with breakaway Somaliland
Taiwan plans to strengthen ties with the unrecognized government of the breakaway African region of Somaliland in a move seen as a possible precursor to the establishment of diplomatic relations.
Japan Times
WORLD
Apr 3, 2020
'I love him now': Wives rejoice as coronavirus halts khat supply to Somalia
Before the coronavirus hit, Muna Nur Farah had started to hate her husband. He'd slink into their home in the Somali capital Mogadishu at 3:00am with empty pockets, his money squandered on the narcotic leaf khat.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 26, 2020
Kenyans brace for second — and possibly worse — onslaught of locusts
After desert locusts invaded her farm in central Kenya, Mary Muthoni, 61, ran around her corn fields shouting and banging on an old iron sheet in a desperate attempt to drive them away.
Japan Times
WORLD / Society
Feb 7, 2020
At current rate, female genital mutilation will take centuries to eradicate, U.N. says
Female genital mutilation (FGM) will take centuries to eradicate despite world leaders promising to end the practice by 2030, according to United Nations data released on Thursday.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Feb 3, 2020
Somalia declares locust plague emergency, appeals for funding
Somalia declared the worst desert locust invasion in a quarter-century a national emergency that's posing a major threat to an already fragile food situation.
Japan Times
WORLD / Science & Health
Jan 30, 2020
African locust invasions believed triggered by climate change
Climate change may be powering the swarms of desert locusts that have invaded eastern Africa, ravaging crops, decimating pasture and deepening a hunger crisis, locust and climate experts said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Jan 2, 2020
Africa starts 2020 battling extremism, Ebola and hunger
A tragic airline crash with far-reaching consequences, cataclysmic cyclones that may be a harbinger of the future, the death of an African icon and a new leader who won the Nobel Peace Prize. These African stories captured the world's attention in 2019 — and look to influence events on the continent in 2020.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 28, 2019
At least 90 people killed in Mogadishu checkpoint blast after rush-hour truck bomb explodes
In one of the most deadly recent attacks, at least 90 people were killed and dozens were wounded when a bomb-laden vehicle exploded at a bustling checkpoint in the Somali capital of Mogadishu on Saturday, an international organization working in the country said.
Japan Times
WORLD
Nov 7, 2019
Hundred of thousands displaced by floods in East Africa
Heavy rains and floods have killed more than 50 people and forced hundreds of thousands of people from their homes across East Africa as researchers warn warming oceans are causing unpredictable weather patterns in the region.
Japan Times
WORLD
Mar 1, 2019
Al-Shabab and Somali soldiers battle in Mogadishu
A gunbattle raged in Mogadishu on Friday between Somali soldiers and al-Shabab fighters, holed up in a building next to a hotel they had hit with a suicide car bomb the previous evening.
Japan Times
WORLD
Dec 7, 2018
Al-Shabab admits Somali blast that killed two generals and seven guards
Nine Somali soldiers including two generals were killed on Thursday by a blast just outside the capital Mogadishu, militants and an army official said.

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A statue of "Dragon Ball" character Goku stands outside the offices of Bandai Namco in Tokyo. The figure is now as recognizable as such characters as Mickey Mouse and Spider-Man.
Akira Toriyama's gift to the world