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GAROWE (SoOHA) – 12 fishing vessels with inboard diesel engines were handed over by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Puntland State turned them over to active fishing co-operatives working on the Puntland coast. “The vessels are another contribution …

GENEVA (SoOHA) – Somalia’s ratification of a key convention to protect internally displaced people in Africa is a landmark achievement for the country and the African continent, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, said today. The African Union (AU) Convention for the Protection and Assistance of Internally Displaced People (IDPs) in …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – At the start of the annual global 16-day campaign against sexual and gender-based violence, the United Nations in Somalia today highlighted the importance of progress in this area. “Gender-based violence and sexual violence are a means to suppress full political, social, and economic participation of women and …

BELEDWEYNE (SoOHA) – The Head of African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) Ambassador Francisco Madeira visited Beledweyne in Somalia on Saturday where he said that the African Union Commission will soon provide relief support amounting to US$87,000 in the form of medical supplies and non-food items. Beledweyne was devastated by …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Mohamed Farah Adan, a Somali pastoralist, did not think he would be able to give an education to his youngest children until the new school was built near their village in Somaliland’s Sahil region. The school in Mandera, constructed by Somaliland’s ministry of education, has enabled the …

Abdullahi Nur Osman, the president of the Hormuud Telecom Foundation, recently visited Beledweyne and other flood-affected southern Somali towns to see how local relief efforts were going.  Local businesses, including Hormuud, and local communities have raised huge amounts of cash and gathered food commodities for the flood victims.  However, there …

Invite IDPs to your remote, unoccupied and undeveloped piece of land in the outskirts of Mogadishu, keep them there for some time not out of generosity. Their presence attracts some form of development which subsequently pushes the land value up. It’s time to evict them and sell the land for …

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 …