DHOBLEY — Women representatives in Dhobley met the Kenya Defence Forces personnel serving under the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) to deliberate on achieving sustainable peace for Somalia. The Key Leadership Engagement (KLE) meeting headed by the Female Engagement Team (FET) team leader Captain Alice Indimuli, was attended by …

MOGADISHU — Somalia continued registering a steady increase in the number of new confirmed Coronavirus cases as an additional 129 cases were reported on Monday taking the number of confirmed cases in the country to 10,210. The horn of the African country is currently experiencing a second wave of infections, …

MOGADISHU —  Somalia on Monday appealed for urgent funding to assist 2.7 million people projected to face acute hunger as pre-drought conditions worsen in the Horn of the African country. “Somalia is calling on donors to provide sufficient and early funding to scale up emergency response as the projected poor …

Somalis are no strangers to hardship, having endured years of drought, conflict and instability. Last year saw a devastating infestation of desert locusts, extensive flooding and COVID-19, which brought new health and socioeconomic woes. Now the country is again facing critical water shortages, which are causing livestock deaths, mounting hunger …

NAIROBI/GAROWE —  Nearly three-quarters of Somali families lack safe drinking water as drought looms across the country and depletes wells, raising the risk of hunger as crops fail and livestock dies, UK-based charity Save the Children said on Monday. Climate change is taking a heavy toll across eastern Africa, and …

GENEVA — The World Food Program is warning it may be forced to cut food rations in June for more than a million vulnerable Somalis because it does not have enough money to maintain the operation. This would deal a heavy blow to vulnerable people in Somalia who are just …

MOGADISHU — Somali Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed 109 new cases of COVID-19, bringing the total number of recorded cases to 9,437. 47 more people were recovered from the disease, hence the total number of recoveries is now at 4,306 according to the Ministry of Health. Six people have succumbed to …

MOGADISHU —  President Farmaajo has received his first dose of the AstraZeneca-Oxford vaccine on Tuesday, a day after the first batch arrived in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu. President Farmaajo said he was taking the vaccine to show Somalis that it’s safe. “I expressed faith in the vaccination efforts by endorsing it …

MOGADISHU — More than 2.5 million people in Somalia are in need of humanitarian assistance due to natural disasters, conflict, and the coronavirus pandemic, a top official said on Sunday. “Water shortages, locust swarms, floods, COVID-19, and terrorism are all major challenges for Somalia,” Khadija Diriye, the humanitarian affairs and …

MOGADISHU — Somalia on Monday received the first shipment of 300,000 doses of Oxford-AstraZeneca vaccine to help contain the spread of the COVID-19 in the Horn of African nation. The health ministry said the first shipment will target frontline workers, elderly and people with chronic health conditions and aims to …