Jamal Osman
Channel 4
United Kingdom
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Somalia on edge of famine as country suffers worst drought in 40 years
Two climate emergencies - one from a deadly shortage of water; one from too much, killing and uprooting people on a vast scale. → Read More
Inside Al Shabaab: The extremist group trying to seize Somalia
For more than fifteen years the extremist group Al Shabaab has been fighting a bloody insurgency in Somalia. → Read More
Ethiopia: Bodies litter roadside in ongoing civil war
Bodies litter the roadside from Ethiopia’s capital to disputed regions in the north of the country as the civil war continues to devastate communities. → Read More
Military push back against rebels in Ethiopia civil war
Ethiopia's Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed says his soldiers are pushing back rebel forces in a drive to reclaim territory captured by Trigrayan troops. → Read More
US orders government officials to leave Ethiopia amid conflict in Tigray
Tigrayan rebel forces and their allies are marching towards the capital, Addis Ababa - where thousands of people have taken to the streets vowing to defend it. → Read More
Ethiopians head to the polls following months of violence in Tigray region
Ethiopians will go to the polls tomorrow to give their verdict on the Prime Minister. → Read More
Ethiopian Nomads struggle for survival on the climate crisis frontline
For the nomadic people of Ethiopia's Afar region, an area known as the "cradle of humanity" and once famed for the discovery of a three-million-year-old fossil named Lucy, action on climate change can not come soon enough. → Read More
Ethopian Nomads struggle for survival on the climate crisis frontline
For the nomadic people of Ethiopia's Afar region, an area known as the "cradle of humanity" and once famed for the discovery of a three-million-year-old fossil named Lucy, action on climate change can not come soon enough. → Read More
Ethiopia: Hunger ‘used as a weapon of war’ in Tigray conflict
As the war in Ethiopia enters its fifth month, millions of displaced people in the northern region of Tigray are now facing a further crisis - hunger. → Read More
Tigray conflict: inside a camp for displaced people as millions flee
In Ethiopia, the humanitarian crisis is deepening in the northern region of Tigray. Millions have been displaced since the war between the Ethiopian federal government and Eritrean troops on the one hand, and the Tigray People's Liberation Front began last November. Today the aid agency Medecins sans Frontieres reported that… → Read More
Tigray conflict: the testimonies of alleged war crimes
Ethiopia's leader has admitted for the first time that atrocities have been committed in the northern region of Tigray, claiming that soldiers who raped women or committed other war crimes would be held responsible. → Read More
The Horrors of the Hidden War: Inside the Tigray conflict in Ethiopia
In Ethiopia where the conflict between Ethiopia's national defence forces and Eritrean troops on one side, and fighters from the Tigray People's Liberation Front has been raging since last November, thousands of women have been raped and tortured. → Read More
Thousands killed and injured amid fighting in Ethiopia
Concerns are mounting for the welfare of tens of thousands of people who have fled fighting in the northern Ethiopian province of Tigray into neighbouring Sudan. → Read More
Starving families in Uganda forced to hunt protected wildlife for food during lockdown
Turning back to the global impact of coronavirus and in one sense, Uganda is considered to have largely escaped so far the worst effects of the pandemic - with only three deaths from coronavirus, all recorded in the last week. → Read More
Why Black Americans are deciding to resettle in Africa
The government of Ghana began intensively lobbying Black Americans to resettle in Africa last year, and now, in the wake of George Floyd’s death in the US, the country’s tourism minister has stepped up the campaign. Jamal Osman has the stories of some African Americans who’ve already made the move. → Read More
Truck drivers in East Africa dubbed ‘Covid-19 super spreaders’ by politicians
Truck drivers in East Africa have been branded Covid-19 “super spreaders” by political leaders, as governments there implement strict testing regimes they say are needed to stop the spread of the disease. → Read More
Street children left struggling to survive during Nigeria lockdown
With nearly half of the country's population living hand-to-mouth, for them lockdown has had a particularly high price. And no group is more vulnerable than the millions of children - who call the streets their home. → Read More
Amnesty warns millions face starvation in Africa lockdowns
Amnesty International has warned that millions face starvation because people have been stopped from earning money to buy food. → Read More
What can the Ebola epidemic teach us about Coronavirus?
Only five years ago West Africa was in the middle of the worst Ebola outbreak in history. An epidemic that many UK volunteers helped to fight. → Read More
Huge swarm of locusts causes devastation in east Africa – as Jamal Osman reports from Kenya
The biggest swarm of locusts for decades sweeps across East Africa, and it's threatening to wreak catastrophe on countries already struggling with food insecurity. → Read More