MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The government administered exams for the 2017/18 form four class will kick off tomorrow in 126 centres, the Ministry of Education. Education Minister Osman said 27,600 students from three states-Galmudug, HirShabelle, South West, Jubbaland and Banadir regional administration will sit for the exams in accordance with the …

When Anab’s madrasa teacher in Mogadishu told her to stay behind after classes, everyone but her two younger brothers left. He ordered the boys to face the wall, then assaulted their six-year-old sister. Anab’s father, Yusuf, says he clearly saw the “shock and horror in the face” of his daughter …

ADDIS ABABA (SOHA) – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Wednesday its only received 15 percent of the 335.8 million U.S. dollars it needs to meet the needs of refugees in Ethiopia. In a press statement sent to Xinhua, UNHCR said the funds are needed to …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The UK Meteorological Office has warned of an imminent tropical cyclone at the eastern Gulf of Aden in less than 24 hours’ time adding Northern Somalia and Southern Yemen will experience exceptionally high rainfall totals causing severe flash flooding across the region. The forecast released Wednesday indicates …

Almost 15,000 were uprooted from their homes each day in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2017, a new report has revealed. The report by Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) and the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) adds that the region, which makes 14% of the world’s population accounted for nearly half the 11.8 …

Situation Overview Moderate to heavy rains continued to fall across Somali and the Ethiopian highlands, resulting in increased river flooding, along the Juba and Shabelle rivers and localized flash flooding. Since early April, heavy rainfall has marked the end of prolonged drought across much of the country and has supported …

MOGADISHU(SOHA) – About 1.2 million people have been affected by flooding due to heavy rains pounding parts of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, an international charity said on Tuesday. The World Vision International said heavy rains have submerged homes, schools and businesses, displacing more than 700,000 people from their homes, and …

Politicians and the media expend inordinate amounts of energy debating migration, often using nativist, populist and xenophobic rhetoric. This is despite the fact that, as of 2017, only three out of every 100 people – a mere 3.4% of the world’s population – have left their home nations to migrate to a …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – The UN Migration Agency, in close partnership with the Ministries of Health in Somaliland and Puntland, will provide emergency life-saving health services to some 48,000 drought-affected people in the Sool, Sanaag and Mudug regions over the next five months, with funding from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Chinese Ambassador to Somalia H.E. Qin Jian has today handed over 1.5 Million U.S Dollar in Cash to Somali Minister of Foreign Affairs H.E. Ahmed Isse Awad to help people affected by floods after handing over ceremony held at the Ministry in Mogadishu, SONNA reported. Ahmed Awad …