Bahrain Contributes to Second Development Project in Somalia, Eases Needs of Famine Victims
MANAMA, Bahrain, Jan. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Yesterday, Bahrain signed a $1.5 million deal to provide a teachers' institute for Somalia, marking Bahrain's second major contribution toward improving conditions in the country.

TPRF to Aid Water Purification in Horn of Africa
Effort will assist more than 10,000 in southern Ethiopia LOS ANGELES, Dec. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Prem Rawat Foundation (TPRF) is contributing US$10,000 to provide safe, clean drinking water for three months to an estimated 20,000 people who have had to rely on dirty water from local ponds amid severe drought and famine in the Borena zone of Oromia, Ethiopia. AmeriCares, a nonprofit global health and disaster relief organization, is overseeing the effort, which will reduce the incidence of waterborne illnesses for members of about 2,000 households in local communities suffering from starvation.

Dahabshiil CEO Gives LSE Lecture on Value of Remittances
LONDON, January 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Abdirashid Duale, CEO of Dahabshiil, addressed an audience at the London School of Economics on the challenges and opportunities of delivering financial services to developing countries.      (Photo: ) The event, 'Delivering Money in Difficult Places', was organised by the Microfinance Club UK - an independent organisation that promotes best practice in the delivery of microfinance to poor communities around the world.  It was held in collaboration with the London School of Economics Development Studies Institute (DESTIN), and chaired by Tom Sanderson, CEO of Five Talents - a microfinance charity that provides loans and training funds to ...

Holmes: 'Atalanta' is workable anti-piracy plan
I jetted off to The Hague in early July, courtesy of the Netherlands Institute of International Relations, to brief European scholars and seafarers on Indian Ocean geopolitics and Somali piracy.

Cargo ships fight off Somali pirate attacks
NAIROBI, Kenya - Somali pirates in speedboats opened fire Monday on two cargo ships in the latest hijacking attempts in the notorious Gulf of Aden.

NFL Stars Reunite to Fight Effects of Drought & Famine in East Africa
Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald join Oxfam to raise awareness of ongoing crisis in Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia BOSTON, Nov. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- NFL superstar wide receivers Anquan Boldin and Larry Fitzgerald are teaming up once again on a mission to bring attention to the ongoing drought in East Africa.

U.S. crew wrestles ship away from pirates
NAIROBI, Kenya - In a riveting high-seas drama, an unarmed American crew wrested control of their U.S.-flagged cargo ship from Somali pirates Wednesday and sent them fleeing to a lifeboat with the captain as hostage.

Pirates: To some heroes, to others just criminals
NAIROBI, Kenya - They've been described as "noble heroes" by sympathetic Somalis, denounced as criminals by critics. But the word most used to describe the men holding an American captain off the Horn of Africa is "pirate" - conjuring images of sword-wielding swashbucklers romanticized by Hollywood.