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Breaking News
  • WFP suspends aid for 750,000 Somalis due to critical funding crisis
  • Somalia and UK co-host UN human rights event
  • Somalia concludes national health coordination meeting to harmonise 2025 sector priorities
  • Somalia approves new national strategy to combat IED threat
  • Somalia ratifies African charter on child rights, strengthening legal protection framework
  • German embassy launches ‘Mogadishu Climate Talk’ to link climate stress and security in Somalia
  • Somali disaster management staff conclude specialized training in China
  • UN warns of deepening humanitarian crisis in Somalia as 142,000 IDPs face eviction
  • Somalia’s public works minister discusses housing and shelter support with IOM
  • Somalia welcomes Arab League delegation to launch education and curriculum support project
  • WFP suspends aid for 750,000 Somalis due to critical funding crisis

    NAIROBI — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced a severe…

  • Somalia and UK co-host UN human rights event

    GENEVA — The United Kingdom (UK) and Somalia jointly hosted an official si…

  • Somalia concludes national health coordination meeting to harmonise 2025 sector priorities

    MOGADISHU — The Somali Ministry of Health concluded a two-day national hea…

  • Somalia approves new national strategy to combat IED threat

    MOGADISHU — The Council of Ministers of the Federal Republic of Somalia ha…

  • Somalia ratifies African charter on child rights, strengthening legal protection framework

    MOGADISHU — Somalia’s House of the People (Lower House of Parliament…

NEWS

  • WFP suspends aid for 750,000 Somalis due to critical funding crisis

    October 4, 2025 0 518

    NAIROBI — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) announced a severe reduction in food …

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  • Somalia and UK co-host UN human rights event

    October 3, 2025 0 403

  • Somalia concludes national health coordination meeting to harmonise 2025 sector priorities

    October 3, 2025 0 354

  • Somalia approves new national strategy to combat IED threat

    October 2, 2025 0 409

  • Somalia ratifies African charter on child rights, strengthening legal protection framework

    October 1, 2025 0 523

  • German embassy launches ‘Mogadishu Climate Talk’ to link climate stress and security in Somalia

    October 1, 2025 0 351

  • Somali disaster management staff conclude specialized training in China

    September 30, 2025 0 376

INTERVIEWS

  • Interview: Somali-American pharmacist joins the Maine board of pharmacy

    June 1, 2022 0 1,847

    Since the Civil War broke out in Somalia, many Somalis have immigrated to different parts …

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  • INTVW with Mr. J. Siffointe UNHCR rep. for Somalia

    June 19, 2021 0 2,128

  • INTVW with UNEP advisor to Somalia Mr. Ch. Hodder

    September 9, 2020 0 2,472

  • INTVW with minister Gamal: The country working on improving the economy

    June 3, 2020 0 3,084

  • Etienne Peterschmitt

    Interview with FAO Rep: UN continues support to fight desert locust in Somalia amid Covid-19

    May 26, 2020 0 2,037

REPORTS

  • Rising above the drought: a Somali boy’s mission

    July 18, 2025 0 532

    By Abdirisak Mohamud Tuuryare MOGADISHU — In 2009, a young boy named Ismail Hashim arrived …

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  • Puntland floods cause major losses in agriculture

    July 10, 2025 0 487

  • Somalia’s displaced duffer amid US aid suspension

    April 13, 2025 0 943

  • OCHA: cashes in Somalia force over 100,000 to flee

    April 3, 2025 0 1,103

  • Forced evictions, violence & lack of aid worsen Somalia’s humanitarian crisis: report

    March 22, 2025 0 764

Environment and Disasters

  • German embassy launches ‘Mogadishu Climate Talk’ to link climate stress and security in Somalia

    October 1, 2025 0 351

    MOGADISHU — The Embassy of Germany in Somalia, in collaboration with the Berghof Foundation and …

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  • Somalia pledges commitment to climate resilience at African finance meeting in Kampala

    September 26, 2025 0 407

  • SoDMA launches game-changing emergency operation center in Las Anod

    September 13, 2025 0 510

  • African leaders demand a fair role in the climate economy

    September 9, 2025 0 515

  • Somali president demands int. action to tackle climate

    September 8, 2025 0 574

RESEARCH AND STUDIES

  • Somali disaster authority receives food aid from UAE

    February 28, 2025 0 630

    MOGADISHU — In a significant humanitarian gesture, Mohamud Moallim Abdulle, the head of the Somali …

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  • Disability inclusion study: IDP sites in Kismayo, Som- Dec 21

    February 2, 2022 0 1,213

  • How climate insecurity could trigger more conflict in Somalia

    April 12, 2021 0 1,277

  • Many suffering children in Somaliland need surgery, but most of those needs go unmet

    January 29, 2019 0 1,761

  • Study: Fish oil & vitamin D pills no guard against cancer or serious heart trouble

    November 10, 2018 0 1,693

Development

  • Somali disaster management staff conclude specialized training in China

    September 30, 2025 0 376

    BEINJING — Staff from the Somali Disaster Management Agency (SoDMA) have successfully concluded a specialized …

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  • Somalia, UN discuss strategic partnership to develop transport infrastructure

    September 22, 2025 0 367

  • SoDMA sends a second batch of staff for training in China

    September 7, 2025 0 534

  • SoDMA, Norwegian diplomat explore relief & development

    September 1, 2025 0 492

  • SoDMA enhances its partnerships by signing MoU with Swedish organization

    August 30, 2025 0 506

Displacement and Asylum

  • UN warns of deepening humanitarian crisis in Somalia as 142,000 IDPs face eviction

    September 29, 2025 0 443

    MOGADISHU — The United Nations has issued a stark warning regarding a deepening humanitarian emergency …

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  • Somalia calls for sustained global action on internal displacement

    September 24, 2025 0 493

  • Somalia repatriates 173 citizens released from detention in Libya

    September 23, 2025 0 407

  • ARCO commends KSrelief’s efforts in supporting environmental sanitation in Somalia

    September 11, 2025 0 536

  • Lampedusa .. 23 Somalis seeking hope find death

    August 21, 2025 0 751

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ARTICLES

  • Somalia’s state-sponsored evictions: a crisis deepens for displaced comm…

    Network Editor
  • Somalia is changing. The humanitarian system must as well

    Network Editor
  • Towards a healthier future: Somalia’s new food safety policy

    Network Editor
  • Urgent humanitarian needs and long-term human capital development in Somalia: Where is the balance?

    Network Editor
  • FGM is on the rise in Africa: disturbing new trends are driving up the numbers

    Network Editor
  • Droughts don’t need to result in famine: Ethiopia and Somalia show what makes the difference

    Network Editor
  • Famine should not exist in 2022, yet Somalia faces its worst yet. Wealthy countries, pay your dues

    Network Editor

STORIES FROM THE FIELD

  • SoDMA issues field report on worsening humanitarian crisis

    July 31, 2025
  • Health for all is Somalia’s answer to Coronavirus and future threats to health

    January 12, 2021
  • ICRC .. 28 years of providing health care in Mogadishu

    February 17, 2020
  • Displaced families in Somalia now hit by floods

    January 30, 2020
  • The story of the man who established the only free ambulance service in Somalia

    April 16, 2019

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