MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – At least 72,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Belet Weyne town and other surrounding villages in central Somalia as Shabelle River levels continue to rise, the UN humanitarian agency said on Tuesday. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it has teamed …

NEWYORK (SoOHA) – Millions of children living in areas affected by conflict and disaster are at risk because of substantial shortages in funding for life-saving humanitarian programs, UNICEF said today. To date, UNICEF has only received 54 percent of the US$4.16 billion needed to meet the basic health, education, nutrition …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – There is a high risk of flooding along the Juba and Shabelle rivers given the onset of rains in Somalia and the Ethiopian highlands, the UN has warned. Through the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the report noted that the areas to watch along …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – The Government of the semi-autonomous Puntland is set to send more security forces on its waters to avert illegal fishing. Puntland’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Farah Aisha Beeldaaje, said that the rate at which the waters were being encroached on by foreign vessels was alarming. …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – “I have been drinking clean water for 18 days!” a delighted Rukiya Hussein told Radio Ergo after a new water collection and storage system was installed in three camps for internally displaced families in a rural part of Bardhere district in southern Somalia’s Gedo region. Since 15 …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E Xasan Cali Khayre, on Sunday laid the foundation for the construction of a National Blood Bank Facility. Somalia did not have a functioning national blood bank for close to three decades. This critical project is being implemented …

In September, I marched along the streets of New York with impassioned climate activists calling for greater action on climate change. Their placards warned ‘the seas are rising and so must we’. A young woman, balanced atop a pillar, held one sign which said ‘I can’t believe I’m protesting the …

GENEVA (SoOHA) – Climate change is contributing to increasing damage to critical infrastructure around the globe, according to a twelve-year survey of damages caused by small- and medium-scale disasters conducted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Schools, health facilities and roads are regularly damaged by small-scale weather …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Mogadishu mayor, Omar Mohamud Mohamed has held a meeting with the James Swan, UN envoy in Somalia in which he sought to have the UN play a greater role in rebuilding the city. The mayor said that the city had set in place plans to rebuild the …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A cross-section of Somali women met on Monday in Mogadishu to kick start a process towards the development of a National Action Plan (NAP) to strengthen their participation in peacebuilding and socio-economic progress in the stabilization and rebuilding efforts for Somalia. Representing women in politics, civil society and …