DHOBLEY —  African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) forces have provided free medical services to hundreds of people in Gedo region of Jubaland State as part of their civil military cooperation (CIMIC) activities. The free medical camp took place over last weekend in Gedo’s Burahache and Gherrile villages. Elderly people, …

MOGADISHU — Somalia recorded 17 COVID-19 deaths Saturday bringing the national tally since last March to 488 as the country battles a deadly second wave of the pandemic. The country has recorded an average of 10 deaths in the last week with a similar positivity rate as vaccinations continue. According …

MOGADISHU —  At least three civilians were killed and five wounded when a barrage of mortars targeted the UN and African Union peacekeeping mission forces (AMISOM) headquarters in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday, a police official said. Abdi Yusuf, a police officer in Mogadishu’s Dharkinley neighborhood, told Anadolu Agency …

MOGADISHU — The UN humanitarian agency said Wednesday attacks on aid workers delivering humanitarian supplies in Somalia resulted in the death of 15 aid workers in 2020. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said 12 workers were injured, 24 abducted and 14 arrested in 2020 in …

NAIROBI — Kenya on Wednesday ordered the closure of two sprawling camps that host hundreds of thousands of refugees from neighbouring Somalia and gave the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) two weeks to present a plan to do so, the interior ministry said. The Dadaab and the Kakuma refugee camps in …

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 …