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MOGADISHU(SOHA) – About 1.2 million people have been affected by flooding due to heavy rains pounding parts of Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya, an international charity said on Tuesday. The World Vision International said heavy rains have submerged homes, schools and businesses, displacing more than 700,000 people from their homes, and …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – The UN Migration Agency, in close partnership with the Ministries of Health in Somaliland and Puntland, will provide emergency life-saving health services to some 48,000 drought-affected people in the Sool, Sanaag and Mudug regions over the next five months, with funding from the UN Central Emergency Response Fund …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Rainfall totals during the first half of the April to June Gu season are some of the highest on the 1981-2017 record, equivalent to between 130 and over 200 percent of average (Figure 1). The heavy rainfall marks the end of prolonged drought across much of the …

GAROWE (SOHA) – Puntland President Abdiweli Mohamed Ali “Gaas” has on Saturday appointed new ministers amid corruption allegations in his administration. Dahir Haji Khalif was named as the new Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation after former Abdinur Elmi Mohamud died in Mogadishu in January this year. According to a Puntland presidential …

RIYADH (SOHA) – King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Centre (KSRelief) signed on Thursday a joint agreement to improve access to drinking water, personal use and sanitation for refugees in Somalia in collaboration with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) at a cost of US$ two million. The agreement was co-signed …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Flash and river floods, caused by heavy rainfall, in Somalia have affected more than 695 000 people, and displaced nearly 215 000 of these, in the last few days. Most flooding occurred in the regions of Bakool, Banadir, Bay, Hiraan, Lower Juba, Middle Juba and Middle Shabelle. One …

BELEDWEYNE (SOHA) – Some 5,000 Somali families have availed of the aid provided by a joint Qatari-Turkish campaign to help flood victims in Beledweyne. This is the first humanitarian initiative to respond to relief calls by flood victims in this city located in the centre of the country. Qatar Charity …

BELEDWEYNE (SOHA) – Over 630,000 people have been affected by floods after Shabelle and Jubba rivers breached their banks, according to aid officials. Torrential rains in Central and South of Somalia have also displaced over 215,000 people. In a statement, The Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs  (OCHA) said $16 …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – A United Nations human rights expert on Friday called for the immediate release of all children kidnapped or recruited as fighters in armed conflict in Somalia. Bahame Tom Nyanduga, the UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, also condemned recent terrorist attacks in …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has confirmed that one of its workers has been shot dead in the Somali capital. An official with WHO told VOA that Mariam Abdullahi, a logistics officer for polio vaccinations, was killed in Mogadishu Tuesday afternoon. Abdullahi was based out of Baidoa …