GURIEL (SoOHA) – Sixteen-year-old Shukri Hashi Abdi’s mornings at home in Guriel, central Somalia, begin at the crack of dawn, making sure that her five brothers and two younger sisters are all fed and the house is clean. “After I finish cooking pancakes and soup, and preparing tea, I wash …
Read More »Kuwait plans donor meeting to fund education in Somalia
KUWAIT (SoOHA) – Kuwait has expressed its determination to hold a donor conference to back education in Somalia next year, Assistant Foreign Minister for International Organizations Affairs Ambassador Nasser Al-Hayen said on Sunday. Speaking before a ministerial meeting of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation on Somalia, Al-Hayen affirmed Kuwait’s support …
Read More »Somali mother graduates in law alongside daughter and son-in-law
HARGEISA (SoOHA) – A 49-year-old mother of five has graduated from a university in Somaliland alongside her youngest daughter and her son-in-law, in an unusual family celebration of educational ambition and commitment. Sabaad Abdullahi Madar and her daughter Hafsa Abdullahi Husein, 21, graduated from Burao University’s with degrees in law …
Read More »Somalia fights to standardize schools with first new curriculum
MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Every school day, Shuayb Muhidin travels Mogadishu’s battle-scarred streets to get to Banadir Zone School. For years, the government has battled Islamist insurgents but now authorities are also turning to a new challenge: schools like Muhudin’s. The start of this school year marks the first time since …
Read More »Somalia’s regional states now issuing school certificates
MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Mohamud Mohamed, 20, who lives in Baidoa, was pleased to collect his school certificate this month from his hometown in southern Somalia, instead of travelling to the capital Mogadishu. “I received a text informing me to collect my certificate in Baidoa,” Mohamed told Radio Ergo. “This is …
Read More »Girls outnumbering boys in some schools in central Somalia
DUSAMAREB (SoOHA) – The number of girls going to school in Mudug region has more than quadrupled over the last two years as a result of free education and awareness campaigns. Mudug regional education commissioner, Ahmed Jama’a Qodeye, told Radio Ergo that the number of girls attending local schools had …
Read More »Somaliland girls from poor families lose hope of high school education
HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Nasra Mohamud Omar, 14, an orphan in the Somaliland town of Burao, is feeling thoroughly dejected that her school days have already come to an end at her young age. Having lost both her parents and coming from a poor family, she has completed her primary education …
Read More »Mogadishu: Female Somali graduates praise the support of their mothers
MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – More than 200 young women graduated from different faculties at Somali International University (SIU) in Mogadishu this week, reflecting a major advancement overall in female education in Somalia. Bilan Abdullahi Mohamed, who lives in Daynile district of Mogadishu, told Radio Ergo that her university experience had been …
Read More »Mogadishu hosts the fifth annual Book fair
MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The fifth annual Mogadishu Book Fair opens today in Mogadishu bringing together a host of local and international authors, readers and literary enthusiasts from within and outside the country. The three days event which started in 2015 and gradually grew into an annual literary festival in Mogadishu …
Read More »Somali graduates must be skilled up
Somali graduates are proud, inquisitive and, in many cases, innovative. They are certainly ambitious and should be confident about their future in a country blessed with so much natural resources and potential. Yet, at the best of times, there is a tragic disconnect between the jobs available and the …
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