Education Cluster

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 …

OTTAWA (SOHA) – Canada is providing assistance to address the critical needs of the millions of people in Somalia who continue to face hunger, disease, displacement, physical insecurity and loss of livelihoods as a result of the ongoing conflict and natural disasters, especially drought. The Honourable Ahmed D. Hussen, Minister …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The devastating 2017 drought was felt throughout Somalia, and UNICEF scaled up its operations to mitigate the worst effects. As both the Gu (April/May) and the Deyr (November/December) rains failed, we saw animals die, crops fail and a huge exodus of people from their homes to makeshift …

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 …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The Turkish language has been added to the curriculum of a school for orphans in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, according to the Yunus Emre Institute. The idea to introduce Turkish language courses at the school came when Huseyin Caner Akkurt, the institute’s head of the department of …