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BUHODLE (SOHA) – A group of university graduates in Buhodle have provided scholarships to 20 of the best middle school students whose families were unable to afford the fees for them to go on to secondary school. The group has raised funds among them to pay the $300 monthly fees …

DADAAB (SOHA) – From the sky, the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Garissa County looks like a tuft of green hair in the balding savannah that is the northern part of Kenya. Sporadic clouds throw black splotches that look like burn scars on the pale peach-hued earth. To the sympathetic eye, …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somali health officials say hospitals and health centres in Mogadishu have seen a dramatic rise in the number of people suffering from Tuberculosis (TB) over the past few months. According to Dr Mohamed Sheikh Omar, head of the TB ward at Banadir hospital, 73 people have been …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Save the Children calls upon the government of Somalia, civil society and other community actors to take immediate action to scale up efforts to protect children, particularly girls, against all forms of violence and harmful traditional practices, including Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting (FGM/C).  The call comes after a series of …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The Turkish Maarif Foundation has officially taken over administrative control of schools run by the Fethullah Terrorist Organization (FETO) in Somalia. The Somali government was the first to respond to Turkey’s call to hand over the schools two years ago. The schools, with up to one thousand …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Two sisters have died in Somalia from complications that arose after undergoing female genital mutilation, according to Hawa Aden Mohamed, who campaigns against the procedure. Ten-year-old Aasiyo Abdi Warsame and her sister, Khadijo, 11, died a day after they were subjected to the procedure in the remote …

World hunger rose in 2017 for a third consecutive year, fueled by conflict and climate change, the United Nations warned on Tuesday, jeopardizing a global goal to end the scourge by 2030. Hunger appears to be increasing in almost all of Africa and in South America, with 821 million people …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – More than 294 000 acutely malnourished children are among some 1,5 million people facing a serious food security crisis in Somalia. The food insecurity is prevalent among populations who lost most of their animals and who became destitute during the 2016-2017 severe drought, flooding in April and …

SANAAG (SOHA) – Villagers in Geed la-rifay, 40 km from Badhan in northern Somalia’s Sanaag region, are facing a severe water shortage, with water being sold at a record high price of 200,000 shillings ($6.6) a barrel. The water catchments that refilled during the Gu rains have dried out. Local …

KISMAYO (SOHA) – The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is offering free corrective surgery to individuals with cleft lip and palate deformities in Kismayo. The two-week medical camp, being held at Kismayo General Hospital, plans to benefit more than 100 patients in Jubbaland state. AMISOM doctors are conducting the …