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Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals for "massive" international support for Somalia as it battles a devastating drought and a grinding Islamist insurgency. SOUNDBITE
Pope Francis says Jesus would never want them to become hit men. Julie Noce reports.
Pope Francis says Jesus would never want them to become hit men. Julie Noce reports.
Images show Somali military personnel and a military vehicle on a Mogadishu street near a popular hotel which was under siege by Al-Shabaab Islamist militants. The siege ended on Friday after more than 13 hours with all the gunmen killed, a police officer told AFP. IMAGES
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives with Somali Prime Minister Hassan Sheikh Mohamud for a press conference in Mogadishu to kick off a brief visit to Somalia, a country scarred by protracted armed conflict and climate disasters. IMAGES
The World Health Organisation remains "deeply concerned about the situation in the Sahel and the Greater Horn of Africa, and particularly in Somalia" says Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Speaking at a WHO press conference on Covid-19, Monkeypox and other issues in Geneva, Tedros says "it is likely that many people have already starved to death". SOUNDBITE