MOGADISHU — A fire has broke out at a shop in Mogadishu’s Bondhere district on Saturday. The fire started and spread, and the flames got higher even as locals tried dropping water according to residents. No casualties have been reported. “The past months I have been having problems with electricity,” …

GENEVA  — The Emergency Committee on COVID-19, convened by the WHO Director-General under the International Health Regulations (2005) (IHR), held its fourth meeting on 31 July. In its statement following the meeting, published today, it expressed “appreciation for WHO and partners’ COVID-19 pandemic response efforts, and highlighted the anticipated lengthy …

As the number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 increase across Africa, and the World Health Organization warns the pandemic is accelerating, we fear the novel coronavirus is spreading within and from densely populated urban areas on the continent. Rising cases in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu are especially worrying, which is already …

MOGADISHU — The Somali government has opened a new Coronavirus quarantine center at the Banadir Hospital in Mogadishu. Acting Prime Minister Mahdi Mohamed Guled presided over the launch of the facility, which consists of 87 rooms and contains 300 beds and other equipment necessary for the fight against the Coronavirus …

BAIDOA — Social Safety Net Program Supports Poor Households with predictable income, it also strengthens Social Contract between the Citizens & Governments. In South West, Baxnaano Supports 26,046 Households, in 3 Districts. 35% have received Fist quarter payment. This high-level meeting was held at the statehouse of south west in …

MOGADISHU — In the recent past, 25-year-old Zahra Mohamud* had visited the Hawadle maternal and child health centre in Hargeisa regularly to have her older son Ibrahim* vaccinated against the most common childhood diseases. However, since the COVID-19 outbreak in Somalia, Zahra has been afraid to take her 7-month-old second …

NAIROBI — Somalia’s livestock industry has been reeling since Saudi Arabia canceled the hajj, the Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca, because of COVID-19. Somalia earns the majority of its export earnings from livestock, and it normally sells millions of cattle and goats to Saudi Arabia to feed pilgrims at the hajj. …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s total number of Covid-19 cases has risen to 3,178 after seven more infections were recorded in the country in the last 24 hours, the Ministry of Health and Social care has reported. The seven new cases were registered in Somaliland, 5 cases and Banadir region, 2 cases. …

MOGADISHU —  In the sweltering seaside port of Mogadishu, Sharif Ahmed tried to attack his relatives and neighbours, resulting in an emergency trip to a psychiatric hospital in handcuffs. It is not the endless civil war making the 22-year-old restless, but withdrawal from the narcotic leaf khat that he has …

MOGADISHU — About five hundred high school students in the country’s northeastern regional state, Puntland have sat for National exams last week, the ministry for education confirmed. The ministry and the authorities of the regional state were at loggerheads after Puntland failed to subscribe to national exams. In a statement on …