Health Cluster

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Recent flash and river flooding in Somalia has affected an estimated 772 000 people and displaced nearly 230 000 people from their homes. The World Health Organization in Somalia is responding to the health needs of the most vulnerable, including by airlifting emergency medical supplies to different …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – The UN Migration Agency, in close partnership with the Ministries of Health in Somaliland and Puntland, will provide emergency life-saving health services to some 48,000 drought-affected people in the Sool, Sanaag and Mudug regions over the next five months, with funding from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Flash and river floods, caused by heavy rainfall, in Somalia have affected more than 695 000 people, and displaced nearly 215 000 of these, in the last few days. Most flooding occurred in the regions of Bakool, Banadir, Bay, Hiraan, Lower Juba, Middle Juba and Middle Shabelle. One …

BELEDWEYNE (SOHA) – Some 5,000 Somali families have availed of the aid provided by a joint Qatari-Turkish campaign to help flood victims in Beledweyne. This is the first humanitarian initiative to respond to relief calls by flood victims in this city located in the centre of the country. Qatar Charity …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that one of its workers has been shot dead in the Somali capital. An official with WHO told VOA that Mariam Abdullahi, a logistics officer for polio vaccinations, was killed in Mogadishu Tuesday afternoon. Abdullahi was based out of Baidoa …

DADAAB (SOHA) – Seven-year-old Ali Salaat Ali died of cholera on 25 April in Hagardera in the Dadaab refugee camp complex, as heavy rains and flooding in this part of north-eastern Kenya have caused the onset of outbreaks of disease. Abdi Ali Osman, Ali’s uncle and guardian, told Radio Ergo …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The internally displaced persons in Somalia are once again staring at a humanitarian crisis as torrential rains accompanied by floods wreak havoc in their makeshift dwelling place. Both the government and relief agencies have sounded alarm over a looming crisis as flooding intensified in the strife-torn Horn …

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 …

RIYADH (SOHA) – King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) signed last Thursday a joint executive project to provide primary health care in five regions of Somalia at a total cost of US $ 1,074,108. This project carried out in cooperation with Physicians Across Continents Organization in Somalia, and …

DADAAB (SOHA) – The children can’t believe their luck: storms and showers have turned their dirt football pitch into a lake. Youngsters scamper and splash through the murky water, chasing one another, leaping and laughing. Any entertainment is welcome in Dadaab, one of the biggest refugee bases in the world. …