Protection Cluster

MOGADISHU — Somalia, Djibouti, and Kenya have begun evacuating their citizens from Sudan as fighting between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces that erupted on April 15 continues intermittently. The first group of Somali citizens, including students, arrived in Ethiopia, an official of the country’s Foreign Ministry told …

MOGADISHU — Recurring clashes between security forces and clan leaders in Las Anod in northern Somalia have resulted in the killing of 80 people and displacement of 30,000 more, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Thursday. The WHO said in its latest update that between 154,000 and 203,000 people are …

MOGADISHU — A young nurse named Na’imo Abdirahman was murdered on Tuesday by a group of armed criminals in the Juungal neighbourhood of Yaqshid district in Mogadishu. She worked at Madina Hospital in the city. The criminals reportedly killed her over her phone, which they attempted to steal. When she …

MOGADISHU — At least three al-Shabab fighters were killed and a civilian wounded in a foiled terror attack in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, early Sunday, the police said. The police said the attempted attack occurred in the Hamar Jajab district in the southeast of the capital. The militants were …

MOGADISHU — With the burgeoning cases of violence against civil society members gunmen have shot dead Abdirahman Ali Mohamud, a prominent climate change activist in Mogadishu on Thursday night Abdirahman was heading to his residence when gunmen approached him and shot him several times on the head and the chest, …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations on Tuesday reaffirmed its commitment to supporting efforts to rid Somalia of the threat from explosive ordnance. Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia Anita Kiki Gbeho expressed commitment to a mine-free Somalia. “Whether measured in the number of casualties or the …

MOGADISHU — An African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) convoy was hit by explosion in the capital Mogadishu on Monday, with no word yet on possible casualties. Osman Ahmed, a security officer in Mogadishu, told Anadolu over the phone that the convoy was hit near Somalia’s Criminal Investigation Department headquarters …

MOGADISHU — Flash floods resulting from heavy rains have claimed the lives of at least 14 individuals, displaced thousands, and caused property damage in the Baardheere District of the Gedo region, according to reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA has additionally reported that …

ADDIS ABABA  — The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR on Tuesday said it is scaling up assistance in Ethiopia’s Somali region to support and assist recently arrived refugees fleeing clashes in Somalia. Some 100,000 Somalis have arrived in Ethiopia’s Doolo zone in the Somali region in the past four weeks to …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations humanitarian agency said Tuesday it has released 2 million U.S. dollars for life-saving interventions as clashes between security forces and clan leaders in Las Anod in northern Somalia intensified. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said the security situation in the …