Press Releases

NEW YORK (SoOHA) – Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator Mark Lowcock today allocated US$45 million from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to immediately scale up food and nutrition assistance, safe water provision, livelihoods protection, and other urgent humanitarian support to drought-affected people across parts of Somalia, Ethiopia …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – US Ambassador to Somalia Donald Y. Yamamoto held a roundtable discussion with organizations that work with the people and government of Somalia to overcome humanitarian crises. Joining Ambassador Yamamoto were representatives from the UN World Food Program, UN Food and Agriculture Organization, UNICEF, Mercy Corps, International Medical …

NAIROBI (SoOHA) – Around 10.7 million people are currently food insecure across Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Karamoja region in Uganda. Although the food insecure population is lower than numbers observed during the drought of 2017 (15.3 million people), there is a high risk of a worsening situation due to forecasted …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) released a combined US$45.7 million today to scale up life-saving assistance in Somalia, where over 4.2 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance this year, including 900,000 acutely malnourished children. “These allocations will enable …

GENEVA (SOHA) – The SOHA Network which specialized in observing and following up the Somali humanitarian scene, publishes a statement of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees on the occasion of World Refugee Day 2018, here is the text of the statement: Today, World Refugee Day, is a time for solidarity …

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 …

GENEVA (SOHA) – The SOHA Network which specialized in observing and following up the Somali humanitarian scene, publishes a joint statement by the President of the International Committee of the Red Cross, Peter Maurer, and the President of the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies, Francesco Roca, …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed and condemns in the strongest terms the killing of Mariam Abdullahi Mohamed, a dedicated frontline worker in the WHO Somalia team, who was shot in Mogadishu on 1 May 2018. All WHO staff and the wider humanitarian community in Somalia …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is devastated by the loss of one of its staff, Abdulhafid Yusuf Ibrahim, in Mogadishu. He passed away Wednesday night after succumbing to injuries from an improvised explosive device, which detonated while Mr Ibrahim was in his private car …