NEW YORK (SoOHA) – Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock today allocated US$45 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to immediately scale up food and nutrition assistance, safe water provision, livelihoods protection, and other urgent humanitarian support to drought-affected people across parts of Somalia, Ethiopia …

DHOBLEY (SoOHA) – Kenyan soldiers serving in Somalia yesterday distributed food and medicine to internally displaced persons in Dhobley as part of the Eid ul-Fitr celebrations following the end of Ramadan. The donation, comprising a variety of food items and medicine, was part of Zakat al-Fitr, a charitable offering given to …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Hormuud Telecom Foundation(HTF) has donated cash handouts to 300 Yemeni refugees in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, this is part of the Foundation’s Ramadan Programs. Last Month, Hormuud Foundation has donated cash handouts to 100 low-income women in Mogadishu. Hormuud Foundation donated dry food to 250 households. Each receiving 25 …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – The vice president of Puntland, Ahmed Elmi Karash, has named a committee to assess the ongoing floods that caused havoc in the administration. The task force is in charge to assess the impact of the calamity in order to dispatch response to inform of rescue to the …

SANA’A (SoOHA) – A total of almost 4,300 Somali refugees have returned home from Yemen since the roll-out in 2017 of an Assisted Spontaneous Return programme facilitated by the UN refugee agency UNHCR in cooperation with humanitarian partners and authorities in Yemen and Somalia. The UNHCR said Friday here that …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The UN Population Fund (UNFPA) on Thursday condemned the gang rape of a nine-year-old girl in the central Somali town of Bulo-Burde, some 425 km west of Mogadishu. Anders Thomsen, UNFPA Representative for Somalia, Anders Thomsen called for a speedy investigation into the grave crime on the …

BAIDOA (SoOHA) – Thousands of displaced families in the southern Somali city of Baidoa have received plots of land on which to build their own homes, ending years of poor living and anxiety over possible eviction. Baidoa District Commissioner, Abdillahi Ali Watin, said 7,000 families from 54 camps in the …

A recent report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicated that at least 4.2 million people in Somalia need urgent life-saving humanitarian support. By July, the number may rise to a staggering 5.4 million people – including 1 million children. We need action now. The …

BORAMA (SoOHA) – Women living in rural areas of Somaliland have been commending the new health services made available under a health programme that has seen the opening of 65 maternal and child health clinics in remote places. Halima DahirIge delivered her baby in December at one of the clinics …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) —  Severe drought in Somalia is putting more than two million people at risk of starvation and forcing thousands out of villages and into a relief camp outside the capital. The United Nations has called for emergency aid to help those in need, including nearly a million Somali children …