NAIROBI (SOHA) – Kenya has repatriated 300,000 refugees to Somalia under the Safe Voluntary Return programme since December 2014, Deputy President William Ruto has said. The government is partnering with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in the programme. The UNHCR, Kenya and Somalia signed a tripartite agreement on …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somali youth are on the frontline of promoting recovery in the strife-torn Horn of African nation after pursuing higher education in foreign countries, including China. Hundreds of Somali youth have undergone university education in China either through scholarships or through self-sponsorship in recent years. These graduates are …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – IGAD member states have shelved their national interests by pledging to work on a framework to guide how trans-boundary water resources will be used. Trans-boundary water resources have been an issue between Kenya and some countries such as Ethiopia, Somalia and Egypt, a move that has threatened …

DADAAB (SOHA) – Thousands of Somali refugees in Dhagahley camp in Dadaab, northeastern Kenya, are bearing the brunt of weeks of a doctors’ pay strike. Health services have been paralysed in three health centres in the camp after 426 health practitioners including doctors, nurses, pharmacists, dentists, and interns went on …

SANAG (SOHA) –  An initiative by university graduates and students is enabling nomadic Somali children whose education was cut short by the punishing drought to catch up on their studies. The group of 150 youth have set up classes for children of destitute pastoralist families, displaced by drought and resettled …

BAKOOL (SOHA) – The move by local aid agencies in Bakool region to cease operations has adversely affected local residents as medical centres supported by the agencies have been forced to close in the midst of a malaria outbreak. Local NGOs based in Bakool region running the centres have stopped …

“Development agencies wish to see an increased flow of remittances; Financial agencies wish to see formalization of remittance flows through banks. Law enforcement agencies wish to reduce the scope for the remittance business to be used for money laundering and financing crime generally.” Introduction The non-bank financial entities in Somalia have …

A widely anticipated study has concluded that neither vitamin D nor fish oil supplements prevent cancer or serious heart-related problems in healthy older people, according to research presented Saturday at the American Heart Association Scientific Sessions. Researchers defined serious heart problems as the combined rate of heart attacks, stroke and …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somalia’s Minister of Fisheries and Maritime Resources Abdullahi Bidhan Warsame recently met with Chinese Ambassador Qin Jian to discuss deepening the two countries’ fisheries connections. Warsame said he would be interested receiving Chinese fisheries training and investments in infrastructure such as cold-chain, fish ports, processing facilities, and …

COLUMBUS (SOHA) – A conference organized by Somali agricultural professionals was held in Columbus, Ohio on June 22-24, 2018. The professionals who attended the conference gave the conference organizing committee the mandate to continue temporarily the work until an organizing committee for the next conference meeting is selected. The organizing committee …