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MOGADISHU —  A mortar attack in Mogadishu’s Hamar Jajab district on Saturday morning killed four children and their mother and wounded their father. As many as five shells fell on the family home, which was located near the Police Academy. Several residents were seriously wounded in the attack. Local news …

MOGADISHU — Somali Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre, on Wednesday appealed for aid to go towards people affected by drought in the country. Barre issued a televised appeal, calling on both local and international individuals and organizations to held the country protect those affected by the devastating drought, which the …

MOGADISHU — The number of people affected by the severe drought ravaging several parts of Somalia has risen to 7.8 million as of August, the United Nations humanitarian agency said Friday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA) said in its latest report on drought released Thursday …

NAIROBI — The World Food Program (WFP) is expanding assistance in the Horn of Africa (HoA) as levels of hunger soar after back-to-back droughts and the threat of famine looms, the UN food agency said on Friday. Since the start of the year, 9 million more people have slipped into severe …

GENEVA — The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that millions of people in East Africa face the threat of starvation. Speaking at a media briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that drought, climate change, rising prices and an ongoing civil war in northern Ethiopia are all …

MOGADISHU — The Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre on Thursday received the Director General of the WFP, David Beasley at his office in Mogadishu. David Beasley made a visit to Somalia for the first time since the beginning of the drought, which impacted more than 7 million people …

MOGADISHU — The School of Agriculture project jointly organized by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) and the Istanbul-based charity Humanitarian Aid Foundation (IHH), has revived agricultural activities in Somalia. The project, conceived as a simple school in 2012, has evolved into the Somalia Anatolian Faculty of Agriculture and …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s PM chaired a special cabinet meeting on Wednesday to appoint a national drought committee to coordinate famine relief efforts in Somalia. The PM reactivated the National Disaster Management Agency and appointed a committee of cabinet ministers, business leaders, civil society groups and scholars working alongside government and …

MOGADISHU — The Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education has today released results for the 2022 national Secondary School exams. 35,000 National Secondary school students across Somalia sat for their exams In June, conducted in exam centres in Jubaland, Galmudug, Hirshabelle, and southwest states, as well as the Benadir …

JEDDAH — His Excellency the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Mr. Hissein Brahim Taha, received today, August 14, 2022, at his office at the headquarters of the General Secretariat in Jeddah, His Excellency Abdul Rahman Abdul Shakour, the Special Envoy of the Somali President for Humanitarian Affairs and …