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JENEVA (SOHA) – More than 10,000 children were killed or maimed amid armed conflicts worldwide last year, while others were raped, forced to serve as soldiers or caught in attacks on schools and hospitals, a United Nations report said Wednesday. A total of more than 21,000 violations of children’s rights …

BORAMA (SOHA) – Khadra Ibrahim Ahmed can see a new future opening up in front of her after a successful operation at Borame hospital in Somaliland this month to repair the obstetric fistula that has marred the last 14 years of her life. “Whenever I visited my relatives in their …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) is taking concrete steps to tackle Sexual and Gender-Based Violence (SGBV) in Somalia. The Mission’s gender unit plans to train additional Somali police officers to help fight increased cases of sexual violence against women. The Reforms, Restructuring and Development Coordinator with AMISOM …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – For the first time in 30 years Somalia has begun exporting fish to neighbouring Kenya, thanks in part to a reduction in the level of piracy off the Somali coast. The civil war in Somalia has prevented many businesses from developing, but fish traders in the port …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea announced yesterday an additional USD$2 million to fund polio outbreak response and surveillance activities in the Horn of Africa. This commitment makes Korea the first country to support outbreak response efforts in the region, critical to protecting …

ELBARDE (SOHA) – A combination of food shortages and the collapse of the Somali shilling are making life extremely hard for the most vulnerable families living in Elbarde, southern Somalia’s Bakool region. Halimo Hassan Mohamud and her six children are internally displaced in Halul, after losing their entire herd of …

AWDAL (SOHA) – Rahimo Mohamud 15, was expecting to sit this month for the high school entry examinations marking the end of her primary education. But the tropical cyclone that hit the northwest of Somaliland, have left her uncertain about the immediate future. Rahimo is among the 270 school children …

NEW YORK (SOHA) – There are now more children forcibly displaced by conflict – an estimated 30 million – than at any other time since the Second World War, UNICEF said on the eve of World Refugee Day. The UN children’s agency went on to warn that these vulnerable children need …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somalia marked the International Day of the African Child with a commitment to work closely with development partners to ensure access to quality education for its youthful population. Hassan Mohamed Ali, the Director General of the Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education, said children in Somalia …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Around 600 girls and boys under 16 have been enrolled in a free education programme in various displacement camps in the Somali capital Mogadishu, where they are being taught by young university and school student volunteers. Sulekho Muhydin is a member of the group of 17 volunteer …