Year

2016

All posts published in 2016

UN gives Sh300m to help refugees survive in Somalia

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The United Nations is launching a $3 million (Sh300 million) “peacebuilding” initiative in Kenya and Somalia to facilitate the voluntary departure of 3,000 refugees from the Dadaab complex. UN officials describe the 18-month-long pilot project as “unique” in i... More »

THE SWAHILI PEOPLE

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The Swahili are a mixed group of people speaking closely related forms of Bantu speech, living on islands and coastal areas of East Africa from Brava (Baraawe), Somalia, to Kilwa, Mozambique and the Comoro Islands.  Not all the dialects are mutually intelligib... More »