Protection Cluster

Six months after President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud took office, his government has yet to make good on its promises to guarantee justice and security for the people of Somalia. Amnesty International is today presenting the Somali government with a 10-point plan, outlining the steps it must take to improve the …

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 …

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 …

MOGADISHU — Twin car bomb explosions targeting Somalia’s Education Ministry building here on Saturday killed at least 100 people and injured more than 300 others, Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said Sunday. After visiting the bombing site early Sunday, Mohamud said the fatalities would likely rise. According to police, a …

MOGADISHU —  At least three people were killed and eight others wounded when the terrorist group al-Shabaab attacked a popular hotel in the southern port city of Kismayo on Sunday, police said. Mahad Abdi, a regional police officer in Kismayo, said the attack started with bombing followed by gunfire after …

GENEVA —  In an opening speech to the UNHCR’s Executive Committee, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi appealed to member states to provide protection to people fleeing conflict and persecution, regardless of ethnicity and nationality. The U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) reports the number of people forcibly displaced by armed …

JOHANNESBURG — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said it’s concerned by the gruesome killing of two Somali nationals in Klein Bulhoek near Grahamstown this week. The bodies were discovered by a resident inside a tuckshop container. Eastern Cape police have since opened a case of murder and …