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BAIDOA — Quiet and calm are rare at the Bay Regional Hospital(BRH) in the city of Baidoa. On any given day, the usual hustle and bustle associated with a major hospital feature throughout its grounds, as could be expected for the main referral hospital in Somalia’s South West State. Inside, …

MOGADISHU —  The Turkish Red Crescent has donated 10 ventilators to the Somali Health Ministry, the Turkish embassy in the capital Mogadishu said on Friday. “The machines that have been handed over to the Somali authorities will be used in intensive care units and contribute to the fight against COVID-19,” …

MOGADISHU — At around 4:00 pm last night, Somali police raided the Hamar Boarding School building located along KM4-Abdikasim road in Mogadishu. The police took away the chairman of Hamar Boarding Schools Abdirahman Dhagey as bulldozers razed down the school with nearly 3,000 students. The government-owned building has been in …

MOGADISHU — The Dar’ül Eytam Foundation, a Turkish NGO, has completed the construction of three mosques in Somalia’s central province of Galgadud, the Turkish embassy said in a statement late Thursday. It said the mosques were built in the town of Guriel and Dhusamareb, the administrative capital of Galmudug State. The …

MOGADISHU — A resurgence of COVID-19 cases is hitting Somalia hard, straining one of the world’s most fragile health systems. Meanwhile, officials are waiting for test results to show whether a more infectious variant of the coronavirus is spreading. In the lone COVID-19 isolation center in the capital, Mogadishu, 50 …

MOGADISHU — Somalia on Wednesday confirmed 198 new positive COVID-19 cases, bringing the total number of confirmed cases in the country to 6,444. 3 more people were reported to have recovered from the disease, hence the total number of recoveries is now at 3,781. Unfortunately, seven people have succumbed to …

MOGADISHU — The government of Somalia and the United Nations are seeking more than a billion dollars to address a climate-related crisis in the Horn of African nation as locusts continue to cause devastation in most regions of the country. As CGTN’s Abdulaziz Billow reports, swarms of desert locusts have …

MOGADISHU —  Somalia Monday closed all schools and universities for two weeks as COVID-19 infections rise in the Horn of Africa nation. After a Cabinet meeting in the capital Mogadishu, the government also proposed the establishment of a medical oxygen plant with support from Turkey. ”The government will continue to …

MOGADISHU —  At least two people were killed in the Somali capital on Sunday and several others – including civilians – wounded when a bomb blast targeted a vehicle carrying a local government official. The attack took place near Bal’ad, where a main security checkpoint into Mogadishu is located, Ahmed …

MOGADISHU — The Somali government on Wednesday banned public gatherings and called on non-essential workers to work from home amid rising cases of COVID-19 in the country. The ministers of health, information and security said the infection rate has gone up in February after nine people died and 100 new …