Food Security Cluster

NAIROBI — Somalia is deploying surveillance teams and specialized vehicles to prevent desert locust swarms ravaging crops and pastures, and destroying the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands of people, United Nations and government officials said on Monday. The worst outbreak in a generation has seen hungry swarms – some the …

MOGADISHU — The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, has Saturday launched at the presidential palace a nationwide social safety net program, which is better known as “Baxnaano”, to help protect the poor and vulnerable families. The Baxnaano program is funded with a pre-arrears clearance …

RIYADH — The Saudi Arabian Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture (MEWA) temporarily lifted the ban on importing live meat (living livestock) from the Federal Republic of Somalia, with the aim of strengthening local markets with imported livestock, in line with the role and responsibilities of the Ministry in ensuring …

MOGADISHU — The Somalia Prime Minister  Hassan Khaire has ordered Treasury to release $1 million to all the regional states to help them fight the spread of Covid19. He said the move was part of a multi-pronged approach that the Federal Government of Somali had adopted to help fight the …

MOGADISHU — The federal government of Somalia has suspended the collection of taxes on basic commodities from traders for the next three months over the new coronavirus pandemic. Somalia’s minister of Finance Abdirahman Beileh said that the government’s revenue department will not collect taxes from traders for the next three …

In the wake of the global pandemic of Coronavirus or COVID-19 that has infected over 1.5 million people and killed over 100,000 people worldwide to date, Somalia takes measures to prevent the contagious disease from spreading into the conflict-affected nation whose healthcare infrastructure systems are not as strong as those …

NAIROBI —  When the coronavirus began hitting Western economies, it hurt the economies of African countries, too – not only because of a loss in trade and tourism but also due to a loss in remittances. Hundreds of thousands of African families depend on money sent home by relatives working …

ADDIS ABABA — The grant agreement was signed on Tuesday by Admasu Nebebe, State Minister of Finance and Dr. Christian Rogg, Head of UK’s Department for International Development (DFID) in Ethiopia in a virtual authorization ceremony. The grant will be used for a project strengthening the economies of host and …

MOGADISHU — Somalia has sought assistance from the global anti-piracy forces to help it capture 43 boats from Pakistan and Iran that are conducting illegal fishing operations in the Horn of African nation’s waters. The Somali Federal Government has accused the two countries of continuing illegal fishing in Somalia waters, …

ROME — The UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said new locust swarms began to form in the Horn of Africa — especially in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia — and some other countries. According to a report by FAO, the new swarms are “representing an unprecedented threat to food security …