Tag: Horn of Africa

  • Inaugural San Diego African Restaurant Week Kicks Off Friday

    By Megan Burks With 10 African restaurants—some in business since the 1980’s—and the largest East African population in California, San Diego is getting its first African restaurant week. Seven restaurants, most in City Heights, will offer $15 prix fixe menus Friday through Oct. 28. They’ll also offer free cooking classes (space is limited), live music…

  • Locals Discuss Famine in Somalia

    By Megan Burke and Marueen Cavanaugh A 10-ton shipment of peanut-butter based nutritional paste landed today in Mogadishu for famine-victims in Somalia. Thousands of starving Somalis escape from their lawless country every day in an effort to get help at refugee camps in neighboring Kenya. It’s estimated at least 18-thousand children inside Somalia are suffering…