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MOGADISHU — Arbay Mahad Qasim has already lost two children to a vicious drought, and now the Somali villager fears she could lose a third as her malnourished toddler Ifrah awaits treatment in a Mogadishu hospital. Barely out of her teens, Qasim is among dozens of weary parents crowding Banadir …

NAIROBI — The World Bank (WB) said it has provided 385 million U.S. dollars in International Development Association (IDA) financing to Horn of Africa (HoA) countries to tap groundwater potential and boost climate resilience. The World Bank said in a statement issued on Wednesday evening that the Horn of Africa …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations children’s fund (UNICEF) on Tuesday appealed for urgent funding to help avert an “explosion of child deaths” which it said is looming in East Africa (EA) if the world does not act immediately. UNICEF’s Deputy Regional Director for Eastern and Southern Africa, Rania Dagash said …

MOGADISHU — Somalia and the United Nations agencies have kicked off the second round of the polio vaccination campaign, targeting to reach 3.5 million children below five years of age. The World Health Organization and UNICEF teamed up with the Somalian Ministry of Health and other partners to launch the …

GENEVA — The worst drought in the Horn of Africa in four decades has sparked efforts to prevent famine, with hundreds of people having died of malnutrition already in the region. Previously unreported data shared with the Associated Press show at least 448 deaths this year at malnutrition treatment centers …

BAIDOA — A court in Baidoa town on Tuesday executed a man for killing a businesswoman and then dumping her body in a sewage hole in his house. Family members found the woman’s body on Sunday. The court ruled that Hassan Mohamed Hassan, aka Goomey, stabbed Amina Mohamud to death …

MOGADISHU — Oman Charitable Organization (OCO) has begun distributing food aid among people of Mogadishu, Somalia. A statement issued by OCO on Tuesday said, ‘The aid is part of the programmes of the organization for Somalia; 20,000 families will benefit from this consignment of aid. On May 2022, OCO delivered …

MOGADISHU —  A fourth straight failed rainy season has exacerbated the biting drought in Somalia and left the country facing food insecurity, malnutrition and famine, UN agencies warned on Monday. “With no end in sight for the devastating drought affecting the country, the risk of famine looms larger than ever,” …

MOGADISHU — Special Representative for Somalia’s Drought Relief, MP Abdirahman Abdishakur Warsame today visited situation of IDPs facing imminent malnutrition and starvation in a Mogadishu Hospital. As a result of the severe drought in the country, these Children are mostly from regions where there is widespread drought. Director of Benadir …

BAIDOA — The situation in Somalia is extremely dire as 7.1 million people, including at least 370,000 children, are going to be affected by drought before the end of the year unless there is a massive humanitarian effort, a UN official has said. “Unless we scale up and step up …