MOGADISHU — Somalia’s president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 100 people. Bulldozers were continuing to clear the blast site in the capital Mogadishu on Monday in the hunt for bodies feared trapped …
Read More »More bodies found after twin car bombing in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU — Forty Eight house after the deadly double car bomb attacks in Mogadishu, rescuers have found more bodies trapped bellow destructed buildings. At least 106 people have died as a result of the explosion claimed by the Somali militants group, Al-Shabab. More than 350 people are nursing various injuries …
Read More »WHO provides health care to victims of Zoobe’s explosion
MOGADISHU — The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has offered to provide health care to the nearly 300 wounded in Saturday’s attack that killed 104 people. “Devastating news. We remember the people of Somalia and send the affected families our sincere condolences. WHO stands …
Read More »At least 100 killed, 300 others wounded in twin blasts in Somalia
MOGADISHU — Twin car bomb explosions targeting Somalia’s Education Ministry building here on Saturday killed at least 100 people and injured more than 300 others, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Sunday. After visiting the bombing site early Sunday, Mohamud said the fatalities would likely rise. According to police, a …
Read More »Somalia: 4 lessons from past experience of dealing with famine
Since 1990 the world’s famines have been classified as small – with the glaring exceptions of Somalia in 1991-92 and 2010-12. Now the UN’s World Food Programme says that nearly seven million Somalis face not being able to find enough food in the last months of 2022. Baidoa and Burhakaba …
Read More »Coastline donates $1.4 mln in food aid to 6,000 households in Somalia
HOUSTON — Coastline Exploration Limited (“Coastline”), the upstream oil and gas company focused on East Africa, is donating $1.4m in food aid to 6,000 households in Somalia to help with the famine relief effort. The food will be donated across three areas, Barawe in South West, Hobyo in Galmudug, and Kismayo in Jubaland, with 2,000 …
Read More »UN announces global food supply to Somalia was only reason for scarcity
MOGADISHU — The United Nations made an announcement on Friday that global food supply to Somalia was the only motive why scarcity was being kept at bay in the concerned nation. The UN’s World Food Programme stated the situation was terrible and the country was currently in a desperate race …
Read More »Bomb blast, gunfire at Somali hotel kill 3, wound 8
MOGADISHU — At least three people were killed and eight others wounded when the terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked a popular hotel in the southern port city of Kismayo on Sunday, police said. Mahad Abdi, a regional police officer in Kismayo, said the attack started with bombing followed by gunfire after …
Read More »WFP warns Somalia near full-blown famine
GENEVA — The World Food Program warned Friday it is only a matter of time before Somalia is hit with a full-blown famine and people start dying in droves. The United Nations food agency said it has been able to keep famine at bay in Somalia by massively increasing food …
Read More »Humanitarian agencies need more fund in Somalia
MOGADISHU — Humanitarian organizations need an additional US$1 billion in funding to reach 7.6 million people targeted for humanitarian assistance in Somalia. The increased requirement for the 2022 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) comes against the backdrop of rapidly mounting needs and a corresponding scale-up in humanitarian action. “We are facing …
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