Education Cluster

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Five people among them three secondary school children from the same family survived gunshot attack while travelling in a public transport bus in Darkenley district, in the outskirts of Mogadishu this morning. The three children; a boy and two girls were heading to school (Al-Anwaar) when the …

NAIROBI (SoOHA) – The move by the government to shut down social media platforms in the country at the end of this month as students retake their final exams has received sharp criticism with Amnesty International terming it ‘ridiculous’. Amnesty International deputy regional director for East Africa Seif Magango said …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Education Minister Abdullahi Barre has cancelled the form four final exams and announced social media shut down at the end of May when a retake will be conducted. Barre made the announcement Monday night as papers set for today- Biology and English were circulating in social media …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The Somali government needs to ensure that children from poor families are not excluded from accessing free state-run schools, according to a new report by a Somali think tank. The Mogadishu-based research centre, Somali Public Agenda, observed that despite commendable efforts by the government to increase school …

ERIGAVO (SoOHA) – For the first time in her life, 11-year-old Saynab Farah Mohamed wakes up every day to go to school instead of herding her family’s livestock. Saynab and 49 other children, whose nomadic pastoralist families have been forced from one place to another by successive droughts affecting northern Somalia …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Form four final exams will start next month in various parts of the country, the Ministry of Education has said in a newly released timetable. The Deputy Minister of Education Feysal Omar Guled, told the media that the 2018/2019 form four final exams will kick off on …

KISMAYO (SoOHA) – The posting of female teachers to schools and universities in Kismayo in southern Somalia is helping to encourage girls who dropped out of school to return to the classroom, even after leaving to get married. Ten married female students resumed their education recently following counselling and mentoring …

GAROWE (SOHA) – Over 50,000 new students in Puntland are set to benefit from a European Union-funded programme in the next three years. The 7.3 million Euro Puntland Education Sector Support Programme launched in Garowe Tuesday will see over 56,000 students enrolled in schools within the state adding to over …

KISMAYO (SOHA) – Two schools in the southern Somali town of Kismayo have opened educational facilities for deaf children, for the first time since the fall of the central government in 1991. Jubba and Fanole Primary and Secondary Schools have each allocated two newly built classrooms for deaf students. The …

LAAS AANOOD (SOHA) – Over 20 female university students in Las-Anod town have launched a campaign to help displaced families in Sool region. 150 families displaced by clan conflicts in the region, who have been living without basic needs, have now received food and other aid for the first time …