NAIROBI (SOHA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) on Thursday urged robust investments in Somalia’s fragile health care infrastructure as a means to accelerate the country’s reconstruction after two and a half decades of civil strife. Senior officials said at a forum in Nairobi that affordable health care will help …

Almost two decades ago, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan asked Lakhdar Brahimi, one of the most experienced diplomats to have ever served the U.N., to chair a commission to examine the peacekeeping disasters of the 1990s, from Bosnia to Somalia and Rwanda, to see if any lessons could be learned. …

DOHA (SOHA) – Qatar Charity, through its Executive Management of Local Operations, organized a mass festival at Aspire Zone to celebrate the Arab Orphans Day, while an event was also held in the city of Garissa in Kenya to celebrated this day. The charity aimed, through the festival, to raise …

MOGADISHU ( SOHA) – The African Development Bank has launched the Say No to Famine – Short-Term Regional Emergency Response Project, STRERP, for Somalia. As a response to food security, the Bank has supported the people of Somalia, mobilizing approximately $34 million, from both the Transition Support Facility of the …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The Government of Japan is providing generous funding to UNICEF to support children with proper sanitation facilities in schools, keep them in education and provide abused women and children with support services, UNICEF said today. The US$3million grant will, over the course of the next year, help some …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – Khayria Abdiwahab Yahye, 17, is a refugee from Yemen. She came to Somaliland nearly two years ago amidst the civil war back home. “I came by boat,” she says. “I was going to school in another town away from my family. When the fighting grew worse, I ran …

BAIDOA (SOHA) – Qatar Charity (QC) has started the distribution of dry food to more than 6,000 families affected by drought in Baidoa city of Somalia. Thousands of Somali families have been displaced from affected remote areas to nearby villages and towns, due to the drought, which has frequently occurred …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Facing a crushing and continuing drought, Somalia needs urgent investment if it is to avoid another humanitarian crisis, warns the global organization Mercy Corps. The three-year drought blighting the country has claimed thousands of lives, displaced more than two million people and worsened the spread of cholera …

TIMISOARA, ROMANIA – Somali refugee Fadumo Nour Zein, 81, sits on a metal bed in a UNHCR centre in western Romania, patting the knee of her 46-year-old daughter Fatima on her left and grandson Ali on her right. After years of uncertainty, she is finally happy. For 20 years Fadouma did …

Dadaab (SOHA) – The UN top envoy in Somalia ended a two-day visit to Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp where he highlighted the gradual progress made in the Horn of Africa nation. Michael Keating, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, who met with camp residents and some about to return to Somalia, …