Food Security Cluster

QARDHO — The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSRelief), in cooperation with the Al-Musbah Society for Development, concluded Thursday the project of distributing 3,000 food baskets, weighing 270 tons, for people affected by flash floods in Qardho district, Somalia benefiting 18,000 individuals. This comes in the frame of …

MOGADISHU —  In makeshift metal homes in a camp in Mogadishu, women wrapped in brightly patterned scarves are making savory pastries and mixing flour for flatbreads. They are preparing iftar, the evening meal when Muslims break their fast during Ramadan, which this year falls in the middle of a global …

QARDHO — King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief), in cooperation with the Al-Misbah Association for Development, continued yesterday to distribute relief assistance to those affected by torrential rains and floods that swept through Qardho Region, Puntland. The aid consisted of 1,000 food baskets, benefiting 6,000 individuals. The President …

MOGADISHU —  Global remittances to Sub-Saharan will decline by 23% in 2020 owing to COVID-19 impact adversely affecting countries such as Somalia which heavily rely on monies from relatives and friends abroad. The World Bank said in a study Wednesday the COVID-19 pandemic will see close to $10 billion in …

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 …