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ROME (SoOHA) – The government of Italy has withheld €6 million meant for rehabilitation of Shabelle river to end perennial flooding in Beletweyne after Somalia failed to apply for the grants. A report by the Italian newspaper la Republica notes that the funds were earmarked for reconstruction of the banks …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Flooding in parts of Somalia has impacted more than 547,000 people, of whom 370,000 have been displaced from their homes, destroying livelihoods and infrastructure in the Horn of Africa nation, the UN said on Monday. Citing figures from the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)-led protection and return …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A combined $18.7 million has been released from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) to scale up life-saving assistance to just over half a million people affected by floods in Somalia. “These funds come at a critical time, enabling humanitarian …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – More than 370,000 people have been forced from their homes in central Somalia by ongoing flooding. The town of Beledweyne, about 187 miles north of the capital, Mogadishu, was inundated late last month by seasonal rains, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. …

GURIEL (SoOHA) – Sixteen-year-old Shukri Hashi Abdi’s mornings at home in Guriel, central Somalia, begin at the crack of dawn, making sure that her five brothers and two younger sisters are all fed and the house is clean. “After I finish cooking pancakes and soup, and preparing tea, I wash …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Somalia and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new US$10 million climate adaptation project to help rural communities secure access to diminishing water supplies. More than 360,000 farmers and pastoralists are set to benefit from sustainable water management, expanded drought, and flood early-warning systems and …

LASANOD (SoOHA) – Pastoralists in Lasanod in the northern Somali Sool region have been forced to migrate from their homes following mudslides in the valleys where they have been grazing their livestock. Torrential rains and flash floods in recent weeks have left deep gullies and sinkholes across the grazing valleys, …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Floods have killed at least 25 people and injured 47 others as heavy rains continue to wreak havoc in Somalia, the World Health Organization (WHO) said. The WHO said the heavy rains pounding several parts of Somalia have displaced more than 270,000 people, destroying livelihoods and infrastructure …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Hormuud Telecom has offered Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) responding to the recent floods in Beledweyne, Baidoa and Jowhar districts and Gedo region of Southern Somalia, commission-free bulk cash transfers to vulnerable Somalis. This will allow the Somali Cash Consortium and other NGOs to provide Cash Assistance to more …

BERDALE (SoOHA) — The Prime Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Hassan Ali Khayre, today visited Berdale district in the Bay region to look at the situation of people affected by floods and how best to respond. Mr. Hassan Ali Khayre, who attended the flood victims’ families, told his …