MOGADISHU — The United Nations top relief official in Somalia on Monday called for urgent humanitarian support to drought-affected communities in Somalia’s northern region of Somaliland. Adam Abdelmoula, UN resident and humanitarian coordinator for Somalia who visited Somaliland to assess the drought situation, noted an increase in the number of …

BELEDWEYNE  —  At least 10 people were killed and 15 others injured in a suicide bomb attack at a restaurant in the central Somalia town of Beletweyne. Sources said that a suicide bomber who was at the restaurant blew up at about 1 pm local time when most people were …

MOGADISHU — The number of people displaced by the current drought in Somalia doubled in January from 245,000 to 554,500, the UN indicated on Friday. Most of the displaced people have fled from the Galgadud, Mudug, and Bay regions, according to an infographic by the UN Office for the Coordination …

Rome – The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) today welcomed a €20 million contribution from Germany to save lives and livelihoods of the most severely drought-affected farmers and herders in the Horn of Africa. It is a vital contribution which comes at a critical time in the response …

MOGADISHU — Besides causing loss of human lives, severe drought in Somalia has affected over half a million livestock population and has led to large-scale displacements in the region. Speaking to Anadolu Agency, Adan Mohumed Farah, country adviser for the UK-based humanitarian group Save the Children, said the situation was …

HARGEISA — Somaliland today caried out an execution of four Somaliland soldiers convicted of various murder charges by the country’s military courts. The soldiers executed by a firing squad, were found guilty in killing civilians in some parts of Somaliland. Two other men sentenced to death by a Somaliland court, …

HARGEISA —  Members of the Somaliland House of Elders, started debating the Somaliland Child Protection Law No. 102/2022, which was passed by Somaliland’s House of Representatives. Most of the MPs who took part in the debate on the Somaliland Child Protection Act, Act Lr. 102/2022 proposed that a commission be …

MOGADISHU — Somalia government has on Monday received a donation of food aid from United Arab Emirates, in Mogadishu as relations between Somalia and the Gulf nation slowly resumes to normalcy after three years of frosty relations following the seizure of $9.6M money that belonged to the UAE by Somali …

JOWHAR — Four people were killed after Auto-rickshaw they were travelling ran over an IED suspected to have been planted by Al-Shabab militants near Hansholey village under Jowhar district of Middle Shabelle region. The four victims are said to be from the same family and were headed to Mahaday district …

MOGADISHU —  A woman and her two children died of hunger and thirst in South-Western Somalia(SWS), as the local administration on Sunday feared more deaths due to the ongoing drought in the Bakool province. Rabdhure District Commissioner Mohamed Kheyr Salaad told local media that the district is severely affected by …