MOGADISHU — The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has joined forces with key stakeholders in Baidoa, the largest city of the South-West State of Somalia, to boost community participation and improve public services. The UNDP said the partnership with the Ministry of Planning, Investment, and Economic Development and the municipality …

DOHA — Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) is implementing its Warm Winter campaign 2023-2024, under the theme “Humanity First: Hope for Warmth”. In a press release, QRCS said that its foreign representation offices/missions began implementing the campaign which involves a wide range of winterization projects and aid for the benefit …

DOHA — Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) is implementing its Warm Winter campaign 2023-2024, under the theme “Humanity First: Hope for Warmth”. In a press release, QRCS said that its foreign representation offices/missions began implementing the campaign which involves a wide range of winterization projects and aid for the benefit …

RIYADH — The Saudi aid agency KSrelief has stepped up relief efforts in Yemen, Lebanon, Turkiye, Somalia and Pakistan. KSrelief’s prosthetics center in Yemen has provided help to hundreds of people in the war-torn country through physical therapy and other services. The rehabilitation center in Marib governorate provided 2,121 services …

MOGADISHU — The Chairman of Somali Disaster Management Agency(SoDMA), Mahamoud Moallim Abdulle, on Saturday visited the largest trauma care centre at Madina General Hospital . The purpose of the visit was to inspect the progress of ongoing construction of the hospital. During his visit, the Chairman engaged talks with senior …

MOGADISHU — Officials from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have carried out a sensitization program for thousands of high school children from Somalia on outbreak response. UNICEF in a statement said, they sensitized 1,500 high school children in Jubbaland’s administrative capital on different aspects of natural calamity response including …

JOWHAR — The deputy minister of education for the federal government of Somalia, Ahmed Osman Ibrahin, officially re-launched a school in the Mahaas area that had been demolished a few months earlier by Al-Shabaab militants The district commissioner of the Mahaas district, Mumin Mohamed Halane, and the minister of education …

NAIROBI — The greater part of the Horn of Africa is expected to receive heavy rains between January and March 2024, with the weather pattern following recent El Nino rains, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) said on Friday. The institution, based in the Kenyan …

MOGADISHU — The UN Children’s Fund, UNICEF, said Thursday that it’s appealing for 222.2 million U.S. dollars to support 3.2 million Somali people, including 2 million children, in 2024. “Approximately half of Somalis face a shortage of sustainable and safe water for drinking and other household needs, which has increased …

DIINSOOR — African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) personnel stationed at Diinsoor Forward Operating Base (FOB) facilitated the safe delivery of humanitarian aid to internally displaced persons (IDPs) and the vulnerable populations in Baraaway and its environs. According to a statement from ATMIS, the troops protected the locals and …