Protection Cluster

BAIDOA — The President of the Southwest state Abdiaziz Laftagareen, received a delegation from UNFPA at the Presidential palace in Baidoa City on Monday. Laftagareen and UNFPA head in Somalia Niyi Ojoulape discussed the enhancement of healthcare, vocational training, youth employment, and strengthening cooperation. The Ministers of Planning, Youth, Health, Ports, …

HARGEISA — A delegation of traditional elders from Mogadishu, who had been in Hargeisa for three months to mediate between the Somaliland government and the traditional elders of the SCC-Khatumo faction, returned to Mogadishu on Saturday. During their time in Somaliland, the elders refrained from speaking to the media. They …

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 — 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 …

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 …

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 …

MOGADISHU — A total of 10 people including soldiers were killed and several others injured on Tuesday as a fierce gun battle between Somali National Army (SNA) and regional forces broke out in the port town of Barawe in southern Somalia, local authorities said. Mohamed Ibrahim Barre, governor of Lower …

MOGADISHU — The head of the World Health Organization (WHO) said on Sunday that one of its employees was among those killed in an attack last week on a popular beachside hotel in Somalia’s capital by members of the al-Shabaab terrorist group. The siege on June 9 left six people dead …

MOGADISHU — “UNICEF is deeply shocked and horrified by reports that at least 22 children were among 27 people killed in an explosion in the Lower Shabelle region of Somalia following the detonation of an unexploded remnant of war in an area where the children were playing. “We extend our …