Feb 11 Watch 6:55 What it’s like to call the world’s largest refugee camp home By PBS News Hour Established by the U.N. in 1991 to house Somalis fleeing their civil war, the Dadaab refugee camp complex in eastern Kenya has grown into the largest in the world. Some call it a humanitarian disaster, but to its half-million residents,… Continue watching
Oct 15 Whistleblower releases documents into U.S. military’s drone program By Joshua Barajas For several years human rights groups have claimed that U.S. drone attacks have killed more civilians abroad than their intended targets. The Intercept published highly classified information Thursday that provided evidence, among other findings, that nearly 90 percent of people… Continue reading
Jul 27 Watch 3:14 News Wrap: Yemen airstrikes resume despite cease-fire By PBS News Hour In our news wrap Monday, the Saudi-led coalition pounded Houthi targets with airstrikes in Yemen, despite a five-day humanitarian truce. Also, the death toll from a suicide bombing by al-Shabab in Somalia’ capital rose to 15. Continue watching
Jul 23 Photos: Pumping iron and making art while stuck in the world’s largest refugee camp By Larisa Epatko Dadaab in Kenya is the world’s largest refugee camp. With more than 350,000 people -- the population of New Orleans proper -- it’s more like a little city. Continue reading
Jul 18 Hear from Somali immigrants who fear being unable to send money back home By Mori Rothman Nearly $1.3 billion are sent to Somalis in the form of remittances each year according to Oxfam, $215 million of which are sent from the U.S. Continue reading
Jul 18 Watch 9:53 How U.S. regulation may keep remittances from some Somali families By Elisabeth Ponsot According to community leaders in Minneapolis-St. Paul, 80 percent of the Somali-Americans there send money back to East Africa. Aid groups say 40 percent of Somalia’s population relies on those dollars -- known as remittances -- to survive. But recently,… Continue watching
Jul 12 From Somalia to Spain: See how youth unemployment compares across the globe By Daniel Costa-Roberts View an interactive map of youth unemployment around the world to see how countries compare. Continue reading
Jun 24 Watch 6:49 Refusing to pay ransom won’t stop kidnapping, says former hostage By PBS News Hour The White House cleared the path for the families of hostages to be able to pay ransom, and offered other changes for how the government handles hostage cases. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner gets reaction from Michael Scott Moore,… Continue watching
May 08 New push to give Pentagon the lead on drone strikes By Ken Dilanian, Associated Press WASHINGTON — The deaths of an Italian and an American in a covert CIA drone strike in Pakistan — and the rhetorical contortions required of the president when he informed the world — have breathed new urgency into a long-stalled… Continue reading
May 05 Kerry visits Somalia, a first for a secretary of state By Bradley Klapper, Andrew Harnik, Associated Press MOGADISHU, Somalia — Secretary of State John Kerry made an unannounced trip to Somalia Tuesday in a show of solidarity with a government trying to defeat al-Qaida-allied militants and end decades of war in the African country. He is the… Continue reading