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DUBAI  — The International Humanitarian City (IHC) promptly responded to and supported the World Health Organisation (WHO) with the dispatch and transport of much-needed aid to Mogadishu, Somalia, following a deadly car bombing that claimed the lives of more than 120 people and injured at least 300 others. A consignment …

MOGADISHU — Qatar Charity  has distributed about 5,000 food baskets to the displaced and those affected by drought in Mogadishu, Baidoa, Gedo, and Lower Juba. These baskets contain essential food items that suffice for a month, 1,200 affected families, about 7,200 beneficiaries, benefited from these distributions. The project implementation comes …

MOGADISHU — The Prime Minister of Somalia Hamza Abdi Barre received at his office doctors from Djibouti who came to Mogadishu to help the Oct 29 attack victims. In a statement from the office of the PM, Barre thanked the health professionals for playing a role in the relief efforts and …

MOGADISHU —  Casualties are feared after a suicide bomber blew himself up near an army training facility in the Somali capital Mogadishu, said a security official. The official who spoke to Anadolu Agency over the phone on condition of anonymity after the attack said there were casualties but declined to …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations humanitarian agency on Thursday provided 17 million U.S. dollars to provide immediate assistance to communities in areas at highest risk of famine in Somalia. Adam Abdelmoula, the UN deputy special representative of the Secretary-General and also UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, said the …

MOGADISHU — Somali Minister of Health Dr. Ali Adan welcomed Turkish specialist doctors who have flown into Mogadishu to treat victims of Saturday’s deadly terror attack, which claimed over 120 lives and wounded at least 330. The health ministry did not specify how many doctors and medical professionals have arrived …

WASHINGTON —  Journalist Mohamed Isse Hassan Koonaa was working in Mogadishu, writing a script for a video report on a speech by President Hassan Mohamud, when an explosion occurred at about 2:10 p.m. local time Saturday. The building housing Koonaa’s media organization shook and glass windows crashed to the floor. …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s president has issued an urgent plea for international help for wounded victims of devastating car bombings at the weekend that claimed the lives of 100 people. Bulldozers were continuing to clear the blast site in the capital Mogadishu on Monday in the hunt for bodies feared trapped …

MOGADISHU — Forty Eight house after the deadly double car bomb attacks in Mogadishu, rescuers have found more bodies trapped bellow destructed buildings. At least 106 people have died as a result of the explosion claimed by the Somali militants group, Al-Shabab. More than 350 people are nursing various injuries …

MOGADISHU — The director general of the World Health Organization (WHO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, has offered to provide health care to the nearly 300 wounded in Saturday’s attack that killed 104 people. “Devastating news. We remember the people of Somalia and send the affected families our sincere condolences. WHO stands …