On Thursday evening, Bilai Aden sat on her hotel bed, rocking her 10-month-old baby. The baby’s face was covered in a black hood and blanket, but Bilai would occasionally lift the fabric and peer inside. Baby Misky’s face, full of scars and dead skin, would be revealed. What was more …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somalia has been engaged in a civil war for almost 30 years, and with over 70 percent of its population under 30 years of age, youth and youth education appear to be the key to a peaceful future in the country. Now, a new study has revealed that …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Financial troubles, staffing shortages and high demand threaten to halt the only free private ambulance service in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. “We have been providing this voluntary service for 12 years with the help of friends and other generous individuals in private business, but now the responsibility is …

Horumar Summer School offers programming designed for immigrant and low-income families. Horumar means advancement in Somali and the Horumar Summer School celebrated roughly 140 advancements at their graduation ceremony on Tuesday. The school is open to all, but is designed to meet the needs of the 140 students who predominantly …

DADAAB (SOHA) – The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief) has launched a project to distribute 1,200 tons of food aid among Somali refugees in Kenya’s Dadaab Camp. The project will benefit over 77,646 people including, lactating mothers, pregnant women and tuberculosis patients. The KSRelief project in question …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – From the day a young Mohamud Siraji landed in Dadaab after fleeing war-torn Somalia in 1992, his only goal was to make it out of the massive refugee camp, no matter what it took. A scholarship to come to Canada to study at York University in 2009 …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The results of the National Examinations results for 2017-2018 have been released on Thursday with less of candidates failed to attain the required minimum grade. There has been anxiety as candidates and parents wait for the release of the Form four examination results. 27,000 secondary school students …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The Norwegian investment fund for developing countries (Norfund) has set up a $10 million kitty to support small businesses in Somalia. Norfund, together with the Danish investment fund for developing countries (IFU) and Shuraako, an arm of One Earth Future (OEF), have set up the Nordic Horn …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somalia’s civil war wrenched the country in many ways. Families were torn apart, the rule of law faded away, government institutions collapsed, and education came to a standstill, to name but a few of the setbacks the country faced because of the violence. In the ensuing decades …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somalia’s Attorney General Ahmed Ali Dahir announced on Wednesday the country’s first ever prosecution against female genital mutilation (FGM) following the death of a 10-year-old girl, an adviser to the government said. Ifrah Ahmed, who advises Somalia on gender issues, said the attorney general was sending a team …