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MOGADISHU — The United Nations agencies Thursday launched the minimum response package (MRP), a critical life-saving project that will address urgent needs of more than 100,000 people displaced by the escalating drought in Somalia. Through the MRP, the World Food Programme (WFP), UNICEF and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) …

MOGADISHU — Somalia and the United Nations agencies on Tuesday started a five-day campaign to vaccinate 934,511 people against cholera in nine high-risk districts that are currently facing ongoing outbreaks of cholera. The Ministry of Health and partners including the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF said the first round …

MOGADISHU — Qatar Charity (QC) provided food aid to families affected by drought in Somalia, benefiting 7,000 people in Baidoa, South West State of Somalia. This comes in conjunction with UN warnings of famine in the country due to the worsening drought. The aid, which included basic food items, aims …

MOGADISHU —  At least two people were killed and more than five others wounded late Friday in two explosions in and around Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, according to an official. The first attack was a landmine explosion that targeted a vehicle carrying security personnel on the outskirts of Mogadishu, according …

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 …