Health Cluster

MOGADISHU — As part of efforts to support communities in its Areas of Responsibility, AoR, in the fight against COVID-19, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), on Friday presented a range of personal protection and hygiene supplies to the Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) and vulnerable civilians in the Banadir region. …

MOGADISHU — Somali Health Ministry on Saturday reported 66 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections to 2,579. Fawziya Abikar, Somali Health Minister said the majority of the cases were recorded in the self-declared region of Somaliland 46, Puntland 12, and Banadir five, Southwest has two cases while …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s Islamist group Al-Shabaab said on Friday they had set up a COVID-19 treatment centre in the country and said the disease posed a grave threat, citing international health authorities. “Al-Shabaab’s corona(virus) prevention and treatment committee has opened a COVID-19 centre,” the group said in a broadcast on …

HUDUR – South West State will reopen schools next month, the state President Abdiaziz Lafta Gareen has said amid an increasing number of COVID19 cases. Speaking in Hudur town Thursday, Lafta Gareen said plans were underway to reopen the schools which closed April following an order from the Federal Government. …

MOGADISHU — Somalia continues its fight against COVID-19 which has so far infected over 2300 people and killed 83. The fragile and weakened health system is being overwhelmed by demands for patient care in light of the pandemic, and Somalia has recorded the highest death toll among East African countries. …

MOGADISHU — Somali Health Ministry on Tuesday confirmed 48 new COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of infections to 2,416 . Fawziya Abikar, Health Minister of Somalia, said 19 patients recovered from the disease in the last 24 hours, bringing the total number of people who had been discharged from …

MOGADISHU — The Somali government has repatriated citizens who were stranded in India on Sunday. Permanent Secretary of the affairs and International Cooperation ambassador Mohamed Ali Noor Haji welcomed the citizens at Aden Abdulle International Airport. Most of the civilians who were evacuated were people who went to India for …

MOGADISHU — The manager of the health facility where 8 healthcare workers were abducted and later executed is being held by the Criminal Investigations Department in Mogadishu for questioning. The manager whose identity can not be revealed for legal reason, together with another worker were picked up after the intelligence …

MOGADISHU —  The political and security gains made by Somalia over recent years could be at risk of reversal if swift action is not taken by the international community to help local authorities avert a major humanitarian crisis due to the combined effect of devastating floods, desert locusts and the …

MOGADISHU — Some 47 people tested positive for COVID-19 in Somalia, raising the tally of confirmed cases to over 2,000, the Ministry of Health said on Monday. “We have recorded the total number of positive cases reaching 2,023,” Health Minister Fawzia Abikar Nur said during the daily media briefing in …