Somalia

Oxfam is preparing for a potential response as swarms of locusts sweep across Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia and are likely to grow 500 times bigger by June to neighboring Uganda and South Sudan. The plagues are hitting the East African region where food insecurity has already reached record levels.

More than 52 million people in 18 countries across southern, eastern and central Africa are facing up to crisis levels of hunger as a result of weather extremes, compounded by poverty and conflict.

Leaders must heed climate strikes and give vulnerable people the tools to survive.

More than 15 million people are in need of aid as drought hits parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia again.

Over 380,000 children under five are at risk of dying from a lethal combination of severe hunger and deadly diseases becuase of acute malnutrition.

Oxfam is calling for immediate humanitarian and political action as the world stands on the brink of an unprecedented four famines.

De-risking’ refers to financial institutions closing the accounts of clients perceived as high risk for money laundering or terrorist financing abuse, namely money service businesses, non-profit organizations, correspondent banks and foreign embassies. This report explores the linkages between bank de-risking and the ascendance of the risk-based approach to anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT). 

This report looks at Somali women’s experiences with conflict, peace, violence, insecurity and state rebuilding

On April 7th, 2015 the Central Bank of Kenya (CBK) revoked the licenses of 13 Money Remittance Providers (MRPs) based in Nairobi, in an effort to curb the financing of terrorism. 

Our friends at Africa Research Institute have developed a useful timeline to track the development of the food crisis in Somalia month by month.