Hassan Ali Khaire: Hunger, disease kill 110 in two days
Prime minister calls on citizens to help as hunger resulting from drought leads to rise in deaths in the Bay region.
Somalia's prime minister has announced the deaths of at least 110 people due to hunger and diarrhoea in the country over the past 48 hours amid a drought in the Bay region.
The announcement by Hassan Ali Khaire on Saturday followed the Somali government's warning last week that the drought amounts to a national disaster.
"It is a difficult situation for the pastoralists and their livestock. Some people have been hit by [hunger] and diarrhoea at the same time. In the last 48 hours, 110 people died due to [hunger] and diarrhoea in Bay region," Khaire's office said in a statement.
The Bay region is in the southwest part of the country.
Chinese premier warns world entering period of political and economic upheaval
Li Keqiang urges China to brace for ‘graver situations’ ahead in apparent reference to President Donald Trump
China’s premier has warned the world is entering a period of profound political and economic upheaval as the spectre of Donald Trump hung over the opening day of the country’s annual national people’s congress.
Speaking in the Great Hall of the People, the cavernous Mao-era building where China hosts its most important political spectacles, Li Keqiang urged China to brace for “more complicated and graver situations” ahead, as a result of developments “both in and outside China”.
“There are many uncertainties about the direction of the major economies’ policies and their spillover effects, and the factors that could cause instability and uncertainty are visibly increasing,” Li warned in what appeared to be in part an indirect reference to Trump’s shock election. Hungarian border guards 'taking selfies with beaten migrants' as crackdown against refugees intensifies
Border fence being built as new law considered to strengthen powers against asylum seekers
“When they beat us, they were laughing with each other. The policemen, when they beat us, they are taking selfies with us.”
This account given by Shahid Khan, a Pakistani asylum seeker, is among countless reports of abuse by police guarding Hungary’s heavily reinforced borders.
He said he was attacked before being photographed and then chased away using police dogs, adding: “They treat us like animals, and we are humans.”
Erdogan's TurkeyThe Absurd Trial of Journalist Ahmet Sik
Turkish investigative reporter Ahmet Sik once uncovered the practices employed by the shadowy Gülen sect. Now, he is on trial for being an alleged member of the movement. The case highlights the capriciousness of the Turkish judiciary under Preident Erdogan.
By Maximilian Popp
They arrived early in the morning from across the country and have spent hours waiting in the cold, and now they are running out of patience. The demonstrators, many journalists among them, pushed against the barricades set up in front of Istanbul's Caglayan Justice Palace and chanted "we want justice!" and "journalism is not a crime!"
On Wednesday two weeks ago, one of several terrorism trials against the journalist Ahmet Sik began. The government under President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had promised that observers would be allowed to observe the proceedings. Now, though, those outside are being told that the courtroom is too small. "The government wants to keep the public out," says Erol Önderoglu, a representative of Reporters without Borders and a friend of Sik's. "They are ashamed of themselves for this trial."
Mexico expands legal help for its citizens in the US
Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray calls on US to respect rights of Mexicans and urges path to citizenship for migrants.
Mexico has opened legal aid centres in its 50 consulates across the United States to defend its citizens amid worries of a crackdown on undocumented immigrants.
The centres will provide free legal assistance to Mexican citizens who feel that their rights in the US are being threatened.
On Saturday, Luis Videgaray, Mexico's foreign minister, called on the US government to respect the rights of Mexicans, and urged the US to allow a path to legality for those without documents.
"We are not promoting illegality," Videgaray said in a video of an event at the Mexican consulate in New York provided by the foreign ministry.LDP passes rule change that could see Abe remain PM until 2021
POLITICS
The ruling Liberal Democratic Party decided Sunday to extend its term limit on party leaders, potentially allowing Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to remain in his role until September 2021.
Abe’s tenure as president of the LDP was set to run out in September next year before the rule change, which would have meant stepping down as prime minister even if the LDP was still in power.
The party, holding its annual convention at a Tokyo hotel, approved extending the limit to three consecutive three-year terms from the previous two consecutive three-year terms.
This means Abe can stand for re-election in the next party leadership vote in the fall of next year.
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