MOGADISHU — Qatar Charity (QC) has started digging 27 wells in several regions of Somalia’s Hirshabelle State, and inaugurated an artesian water well in ‘Garasdheere’, a village in Hirshabelle, to benefit tens of thousands of families belonging to pastoral communities. The project is part of Qatar Charity’s efforts to respond …

CAPETOWN —   A South African gunman shot dead a Somali businessman in South Africa on Saturday night. The victim was identified as Abdinasir Mohamud Abdi, and the assailants fled the scene. Abdi was shot and killed outside his business in Mitchells Plain, a suburb of Cape Town. Following the killing …

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in Somalia, has launched a new cycle of radio programmes. The programmes, which will focus on Climate-Smart Agriculture, will be an extension of the radio training modules, which FAO launched here last year to adapt to COVID-19 constraints. Climate Smart Agriculture is …

MOGADISHU — The UN warned Tuesday of severe humanitarian problems in central Somalia after 100,000 people were displaced by fighting between pro-government forces and Sufi militants. Fighters loyal to Ahlu Sunna Wal Jamaa (ASWJ) occupied the strategic town of Guricel earlier this month, before being driven out last week by …

MOGADISHU — The sheep died first, then the goats. When her only camel perished, Yurub Abdi Jama knew that her life as a herder was over, and joined the exodus from her village to the city. Her people in northern Somalia had been herding for generations, born on arid land …

MOGADISHU — At least 30 people died and over 100 were injured in intensified fighting between the Somali National Army and its former ally Ahlu Sunnah Wal Jama’a (ASWJ) in the Somali state of Galmudug over the weekend, residents and hospital officials said. The clashes, in the state’s second-largest district …

MOGADISHU — Somali Attorney General Suleiman Mohamed Mohamud on Tuesday warned that the Horn of Africa country will no longer tolerate foreign vessels that come to its sea to illegally fish, cautioning that ships would be seized. Mohamud said the government will roll out new measures to combat illegal fishing in …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations humanitarian agency said Monday it has stepped up response to support drought-stricken communities in Somalia especially in the southern region to avert a further deterioration of the situation. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said prolonged drought conditions have impacted many …

MOGADISHU —  A section of Somali International University was this morning engulfed in fire following a suspected electric fault. Fire fighters were able to put off the fire before it spread to other buildings in the university located at Hamar Jadid area in Mogadishu. There was no immediate comment from …

At least twelve million people in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia are in urgent need of food assistance following a prolonged dry spell and the expected short rain season. That’s according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation’s (FAO) Early Warning systems experts. This, even as the World Bank warned …