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NEWYORK (SoOHA) – Millions of children living in areas affected by conflict and disaster are at risk because of substantial shortages in funding for life-saving humanitarian programs, UNICEF said today. To date, UNICEF has only received 54 percent of the US$4.16 billion needed to meet the basic health, education, nutrition …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – There is a high risk of flooding along the Juba and Shabelle rivers given the onset of rains in Somalia and the Ethiopian highlands, the UN has warned. Through the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, the report noted that the areas to watch along …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – The Government of the semi-autonomous Puntland is set to send more security forces on its waters to avert illegal fishing. Puntland’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Farah Aisha Beeldaaje, said that the rate at which the waters were being encroached on by foreign vessels was alarming. …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – “I have been drinking clean water for 18 days!” a delighted Rukiya Hussein told Radio Ergo after a new water collection and storage system was installed in three camps for internally displaced families in a rural part of Bardhere district in southern Somalia’s Gedo region. Since 15 …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The Prime Minister of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E Xasan Cali Khayre, on Sunday laid the foundation for the construction of a National Blood Bank Facility. Somalia did not have a functioning national blood bank for close to three decades. This critical project is being implemented …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A cross-section of Somali women met on Monday in Mogadishu to kick start a process towards the development of a National Action Plan (NAP) to strengthen their participation in peacebuilding and socio-economic progress in the stabilization and rebuilding efforts for Somalia. Representing women in politics, civil society and …

ERIGABO (SoOHA) – Sixteen vast grazing reserves in Oog in the northern Somali region of Sool that had been fenced off for private development by a group of businessmen have been returned by the local authorities to communal use for pastoralists. Oog assistant district commissioner, Abdi Idan Jam’a, told Radio …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Dozens of farms in Somaliland’s Awdal region have been invaded by locusts, leaving farmers wondering how they will recoup their losses.   The farmer who spoke to Radio Ergo in Harirad, Halimale, Maralay, El-Bahay, Qoqol, Arorsel, and Wears villages said their crops of tomatoes, lettuce, pumpkins, onions, and watermelons had been totally destroyed by the locusts.   Suleiman Hassan Said, the chairperson of Halimale farmers association, said his 27-hectare farm had been stripped clean by the swarm …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – A 49-year-old mother of five has graduated from a university in Somaliland alongside her youngest daughter and her son-in-law, in an unusual family celebration of educational ambition and commitment. Sabaad Abdullahi Madar and her daughter Hafsa Abdullahi Husein, 21, graduated from Burao University’s with degrees in law …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Every school day, Shuayb Muhidin travels Mogadishu’s battle-scarred streets to get to Banadir Zone School. For years, the government has battled Islamist insurgents but now authorities are also turning to a new challenge: schools like Muhudin’s. The start of this school year marks the first time since …