NAIROBI/GENEVA — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned that Somalia is on the cusp of a humanitarian catastrophe. One in 4 people face high levels of acute food insecurity and more than 800,000 children under the age of five are at risk of …
Read More »At least 15 killed, several injured in Somalia’s blasts
MOGADISHU — Somali media reported that at least 15 people were killed and several others injured in two separate blasts in central and southern Somalia. The first blast occurred in the Mudug district in central Somalia, where a car carrying citizens passing through the city of Baadwein exploded, killing eight …
Read More »FGS delivers emergency aid to Hirshabelle state
MOGADISHU — The Ministry of Health and Human Service of the Federal Government of Somalia has delivered emergency medical supplies and drugs to Jowhar, the capital of HirShabelle state. The Ministry handed over the equipment to the Minister of the State for Health and the Director-General of the Ministry of …
Read More »AMISOM accused of killing 7 civilians in Lower Shabelle
MOGADISHU — A father in Lower Shabelle has told a radio station in Somalia on Tuesday that AMISOM forces operating near the Golweyn village killed his son and six other civilians. In an interview with Radio Mogadishu, Mohamed Yonis Aden said his son was murdered close to a farm. “My …
Read More »Qatar Charity builds health center in Somalia
MOGADISHU — Somalia’s First Lady Saynab Abdi Moallim lauded the Qatari support for the Somali people, which are extended to implement developmental projects and alleviate the suffering of the vulnerable in times of adversities. This came in a speech Moallim delivered during the inaugural ceremony of the health centre built …
Read More »Somalia receives 108K more doses of COVID-19 vaccines
MOGADISHU — Somalia on Sunday received 108,000 additional doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to help intensify the fight against the pandemic in the country. The vaccines were donated by the French government through the COVAX Facility in continued efforts to protect Somalia’s population from COVID-19. Fawziya Abikar Nur, Somali …
Read More »UN appalled by increase in sexual violence in Somalia
NEW YORK — The UN secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, and the special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, said Thursday that they were appalled by the alarming increase in the scale and severity of sexual violence in Somalia. In 2020, 400 civilians, …
Read More »AMISOM supports a school in Gedo to boost education
GARBAHAREY — The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has handed over learning materials to the local administration and management of Gherille Primary School in Gedo region, Jubaland State of Somalia, to boost education in the area. The donated items include desks, plastic chairs, office tables, wooden blackboards, office filing …
Read More »Climate change and conflict threaten Somali herders
MOGADISHU — Ahmed Mohamud, an elderly pastoralist from Mudug region in north-central Somalia, has witnessed the devastations climate change has wrought in his ancestral village where livestock keeping has strong economic and cultural value to his folks. Mohamud belongs to a fading generation of Somali herders who have nostalgic memories …
Read More »Report: MU nursing degree comparable to that of the US
MOGADISHU — Students pursuing a degree in Nursing from Mogadishu University(MU) do not have to repeat the course in the U.S since their qualifications match those of their peers in U.S universities, an international evaluation organization in the U.S has established. In its assessment of a nursing graduate from Mogadishu …
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