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MOGADISHU (SOHA) – More than 400 children can now resume their education after the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) completed renovation works of a school destroyed in a bomb attack three years ago. Dr Qamar Primary School – established in 2009 in memory of Dr Kamar Aden Ali, a former minister …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – Countries have been challenged to adopt education as a means of managing migration and displacement and offering those in need a second chance. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Assistant Director General for Education Ms.Stefania Gianini said that education is a human right and a …

Most residents live more than two hours from a surgeon, and many cannot afford care, Baylor University researcher says Children in Somaliland suffer a significant burden of health conditions — particularly congenital deformities and wound-related conditions — that could be bettered by surgery, but most of these needs are being …

Two graduates from Jazeera University in Mogadishu have initiated a new method of growing animal fodder to help pastoralists in central Somalia to manage their livestock during periods of drought. The method known as hydroponics is a way of growing crops in water rather than in soil. Hydroponics farming is a …

JOWHAR (SOHA) – A group of young farmers in Jowhar district of Middle Shabelle region is trying to revive the homegrown variety of rice, which had almost fallen out of production in Somalia. Severe drought and water shortages in the last three years, and flooding prior to that, had forced …

GAROWE (SOHA) – Severe soil erosion in Balley Valley, on the outskirts of Garowe town in Somalia’s Puntland region, is threatening the livelihoods of livestock farmers as their herds of livestock lack pasture and water. The farmers are blaming unregulated quarrying for rocks in the area. Ahmedweli Hirsi Gelle has …

DADAAB (SOHA) – After four years of hard work in secondary school, Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, a teenage Somali refugee in northern Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, faces an uncertain future as the results of his exams were declared null and void over alleged cheating. Ahmed sat for his Kenya Certificate of …

ADAADO (SOHA) – Residents of a drought-stricken village in Galgaduud region of central Somalia can now access clean, fresh water thanks to the discovery of an aquifer. The aquifer, discovered by a Turkish water drilling agency in Gideys village, is said to contain water reserves to last for many years. …

MOGADISHU(SOHA) – The Federal Government of Somalia and aid agencies operating in the country have today launched the 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and called on donors to provide sufficient and early funding to sustain aid operations in Somalia in 2019. The response plan seeks $1.08 billion to provide life-saving …

DHUSAMAREEB (SOHA) – At least 4,000 families in Dhusamareeb in central Somalia are facing acute water shortage after the borehole that has been serving the area for about 30 years collapsed. Drilled in 1986 by the Siad Barre government, the borehole caved in, forcing thousands of families in Gabon village …