BELEDWEYNE (SoOHA) – The Head of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Ambassador Francisco Madeira visited Beledweyne in Somalia on Saturday where he said that the African Union Commission will soon provide relief support amounting to US$87,000 in the form of medical supplies and non-food items. Beledweyne was devastated by …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Mohamed Farah Adan, a Somali pastoralist, did not think he would be able to give an education to his youngest children until the new school was built near their village in Somaliland’s Sahil region. The school in Mandera, constructed by Somaliland’s ministry of education, has enabled the …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) –  Turkey on Saturday donated humanitarian aid to thousands of Somali people displaced by floods in recent months. The life-saving assistance was delivered by the state-run Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency. In a statement, the Turkish Embassy in Somalia said: “Turkey has delivered humanitarian relief supplies to the flood-affected …

LONDON (SoOHA) – In central Somalia’s Beledweyne district, families still reeling from food shortages and livestock deaths after another year of poor rains were surprised by a new disaster last month: brutal floods that completely submerged homes after the Shabelle River burst its banks. Across the district, 230,000 people were …

Abdullahi Nur Osman, the president of the Hormuud Telecom Foundation, recently visited Beledweyne and other flood-affected southern Somali towns to see how local relief efforts were going.  Local businesses, including Hormuud, and local communities have raised huge amounts of cash and gathered food commodities for the flood victims.  However, there …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Leading Mobile Service Provider Hormuud has set aside $5 million to support innovative youth projects over the next three years. “Hormuud promises to stand with Somali job creators & will dedicate $5 million to support Somalia’s innovators over the next 3 years, to enable more opportunities & …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Planning Minister Gamal Hassan has dismissed media reports that the government failed to submit funding proposals leading to the withdrawal of funding by Italy meant for rehabilitation of Shabelle river banks. Reacting to a story carried by Italian newspaper la Republica that the Italian government withdrew the funds, Hassan …

Invite IDPs to your remote, unoccupied and undeveloped piece of land in the outskirts of Mogadishu, keep them there for some time not out of generosity. Their presence attracts some form of development which subsequently pushes the land value up. It’s time to evict them and sell the land for …

ROME (SoOHA) – The government of Italy has withheld €6 million meant for rehabilitation of Shabelle river to end perennial flooding in Beletweyne after Somalia failed to apply for the grants. A report by the Italian newspaper la Republica notes that the funds were earmarked for reconstruction of the banks …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Flooding in parts of Somalia has impacted more than 547,000 people, of whom 370,000 have been displaced from their homes, destroying livelihoods and infrastructure in the Horn of Africa nation, the UN said on Monday. Citing figures from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)-led protection and return …