MOGADISHU — Somalia’s ministry for information of the federal government released a statement concerning 8 health workers massacred in Galooley village under Bal’ad district on Thursday. According to the statement, the government directed the investigation team about the abduction and murder of health personnel in the Middle Shabelle region. “The …

HARGEISA — FOA Somalia has this week handed over 6 vehicles equipped with vehicle-mounted sprayers and backpacks to Somaliland’s minister of Agricultural Development amid in a bit to fight the grown desert locust invasion in Somaliland regions, FOA Somalia said. Funded by USAID Somalia, the equipped vehicles are expected to …

MOGADISHU — Seven health workers and a civilian were killed in a village north of the Somali capital after being abducted by masked men in military uniforms on Wednesday, a director of a local aid group said on Thursday. “Armed masked men kidnapped seven of our health workers and a …

Six months ago, Beledweyne, a town in central Somalia was battered by heavy rainstorms. The flooding destroyed houses, crops, and roads, and displaced thousands of families. Now, Beledweyne, the capital of the Hiiraan province in Hirshabelle, is once again submerged in floodwater after River Shabelle burst its banks. Hundreds have …

MOGADISHU — Minister of labour and social affairs of the federal republic of Somalia Sadiq Hirsi Warfaa and the Commissioner for Refugees and Internally Displaced Persons have pledged the work towards the creation of job opportunities. The two spoke during a meeting the minister’s office in which they promised to …

While Somalia and its partners, including the United Nations, focus on the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, other parts of the international organization remain concentrated on supporting the Somali authorities in a range of areas – including the current desert locust infestation. The pests continue laying eggs and hatching in their breeding grounds in …

MOGADISHU –  A SalaamAir chartered plane ferrying humanitarian aid was nearly downed in the southern Somalia town of Qansah-Dhere in Bay region on Monday after it was shot with DSHK machine gun, local security and witnesses told SomaliUpdate News. The plane which ferried medicines and medical equipment was on its …

MOGADISHU — Somali health ministry on Monday confirmed 95 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total tally of infections to 1,689. Fawziya Abikar, health minister, said 31 people recovered from COVID-19, bringing the total number of people who have been discharged from hospitals to 235. The minister said five patients succumbed …

DADAAB CAMP — Two residents of the Dadaab complex have tested positive for Covid-19, the United Nations refugee agency has announced. These first confirmations of the presence of the Coronavirus are raising fears that it could spread in the camps and surrounding communities. “The crowded conditions in the Dadaab refugee …

MOGADISHU — The coronavirus poses enormous challenges for Somalia, where the humanitarian situation is already dire, said the top UN envoy for the country on Thursday. Somalia, like the rest of the world, is focused on confronting COVID-19. There are more than 1,500 recorded cases although the actual figures are …