MOGADISHU — At around 4:00 pm last night, Somali police raided the Hamar Boarding School building located along KM4-Abdikasim road in Mogadishu. The police took away the chairman of Hamar Boarding Schools Abdirahman Dhagey as bulldozers razed down the school with nearly 3,000 students. The government-owned building has been in …

MOGADISHU — The Dar’ül Eytam Foundation, a Turkish NGO, has completed the construction of three mosques in Somalia’s central province of Galgadud, the Turkish embassy said in a statement late Thursday. It said the mosques were built in the town of Guriel and Dhusamareb, the administrative capital of Galmudug State. The …

MOGADISHU — A resurgence of COVID-19 cases is hitting Somalia hard, straining one of the world’s most fragile health systems. Meanwhile, officials are waiting for test results to show whether a more infectious variant of the coronavirus is spreading. In the lone COVID-19 isolation center in the capital, Mogadishu, 50 …

MOGADISHU — Somalia on Wednesday confirmed 198 new positive COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 6,444. 3 more people were reported to have recovered from the disease, hence the total number of recoveries is now at 3,781. Unfortunately, seven people have succumbed to …

MOGADISHU — The government of Somalia and the United Nations are seeking more than a billion dollars to address a climate-related crisis in the Horn of African nation as locusts continue to cause devastation in most regions of the country. As CGTN’s Abdulaziz Billow reports, swarms of desert locusts have …

MOGADISHU —  Somalia Monday closed all schools and universities for two weeks as COVID-19 infections rise in the Horn of Africa nation. After a Cabinet meeting in the capital Mogadishu, the government also proposed the establishment of a medical oxygen plant with support from Turkey. ”The government will continue to …

MOGADISHU —  At least two people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday and several others – including civilians – wounded when a bomb blast targeted a vehicle carrying a local government official. The attack took place near Bal’ad, where a main security checkpoint into Mogadishu is located, Ahmed …

MOGADISHU — The UN office for humanitarian affairs Thursday said about 1.3 million people were displaced in Somalia in 2020. “Out of a total of 2.9 million IDPs [Internally Displaced Persons] in the country, 1.6 million are most vulnerable and will require humanitarian assistance in 2021,” the United Nations Office for …

MOGADISHU — The Somali government on Wednesday banned public gatherings and called on non-essential workers to work from home amid rising cases of COVID-19 in the country. The ministers of health, information and security said the infection rate has gone up in February after nine people died and 100 new …

MOGADISHU — Minister of the Health of the Federal Government of Somalia H.E Fozia Abikar Noor confirmed to the national media that the number of cases of COVID-19 registered in the country has increased in the past two months. The results from COVID-19 tests conducted in the country from January …