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MOGADISHU — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has deplored the deaths of six children who were among the victims of a landmine explosion that killed eight people Sunday near the town of Bulaburde, south-central Somalia. Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef, the UNICEF representative in Somalia, said the children were part of …

MOGADISHU — As part of its humanitarian contribution to achieving comprehensive and sustainable development for needy groups, Qatar Charity  has donated a set of fishing boats equipped with the necessary equipment and tools to low-income fishermen in Somalia. The project aims to enable fishermen to increase their productivity and improve …

MOGADISHU — A passenger plane on a domestic flight crash-landed at Mogadishu’s international airport on Tuesday. All 30 passengers and four crew members survived, the Somali Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The E-120 aircraft, operated by local airline company Halla Airlines, was flying from Garowe in Somalia’s Puntland …

JOWHAR — Doctors from the Burundi contingent serving with the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) have provided free medical care to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Towfik in Jowhar town. Speaking during the medical exercise, held last week, Maj. (Dr.) Severin Irambona, the Sector 5 Medical Officer, said …

MOGADISHU — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is calling for enhanced early warning and anticipatory action in Somalia ahead of an expected El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event and the start of the upcoming Deyr rainy season in October 2023 that could …

UNITED NATIONS — The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), a multi-donor country-based pooled mechanism established to allocate funding for the most urgent interventions in Somalia, has allocated $25 million to provide life-saving assistance to drought-affected communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday. Additionally, the …

LAS ANOD — News coming from the Sool region indicates that today another intense conflict erupted within the outskirts of Las Anod town, the regional capital, involving Somaliland and SSC forces. The renewed fighting, which broke out yesterday with no sign of resolution, is reported to have spread to surrounding …

UNITED NATIONS — World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director Cindy McCain on Thursday called for a five-pronged action plan to address the serious and growing emergency in Somalia. First, she called on all UN member states to contribute to the humanitarian response plan for Somalia, which is seriously underfunded. The …

MOGADISHU — Somalia and international partners on Wednesday appealed for calm and restraint after at least 10 people were killed in fighting between the Puntland State government and opposition one day ago. In separate statements, Prime Minister Hamza Abdi Barre and international partners including the European Union, African Union and …

MOGADISHU — The Speaker of the Somali parliament Sheikh Aden Madobe has called for an immediate end to the violence in Garowe, the capital of Puntland. Madobe said in a statement that war is not the solution to the political crisis, and called on the people of Puntland to work …