Protection Cluster

MOGADISHU — The United Nations refugee agency has urgently appealed for 9.8 million U.S. dollars to address the growing child protection needs in Somalia. The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said an estimated 2.3 million girls and boys are at imminent risk of violence, exploitation, abuse, neglect, and death …

MOGADISHU – Health Minister Dr. Ali Haji said 21 deaths and 117 people were wounded, with at least 15 in critical condition as troops end the Hayat hotel attack by Al-Shabaab. Somali police chief Gen Abdi Hassan Mohamed Hijar on Sunday said they ended a deadly attack and 106 people were …

MOGADISHU —  A mortar attack in Mogadishu’s Hamar Jajab district on Saturday morning killed four children and their mother and wounded their father. As many as five shells fell on the family home, which was located near the Police Academy. Several residents were seriously wounded in the attack. Local news …

MOGADISHU — Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) donated mattresses, bunk beds, a desktop computer, a TV, and a projector to the Central Prison in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, as part of the improvement works. As part of the improvement works carried out for the social reintegration of child …

BAIDOA — Security, peace- and state-building, as well as the drought, were among issues covered in discussions today by the top United Nations officials in Somalia on his visit to the country’s South West State. In relation to security in that Federal Member State, the UN Special Representative for Somalia, …

GENEVA — The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, Friday called for more to be done to protect African refugees and migrants from traffickers on their way from the Sahel and the Horn of Africa toward North Africa and Europe. UNHCR spokeswoman Shabia Mantoo says traffickers take advantage of African refugees fleeing …

BAIDOA — The Minister of Justice of the South West State, Somalia, Hassan Ibrahim Lugbur, was killed on Friday in a bomb attack on a mosque in Baidoa. Local media outlets say Lugbur’s son was also killed in the attack. Several other people were injured. The bomb went off during …

MOGADISHU — At least three people were killed and more than 14 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide car bomb attack that targeted Nur Dob hotel, killing …

HARGEISA — At least three young men died on Saturday afternoon in a road accident on the outskirts of Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland. The three young men, Abdisalam Osman, Faisal Muhumed, and Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, were all friends. According to residents, the accident happened after a pickup 4WD collided …

NEW YORK — The annual UN report on Children and Armed Conflict (CAAC), released on Monday, details the devastating impact that various forms of conflict had on children around the world in 2021. The dangers outlined in the report range from conflict escalation, military coups, and takeovers, protracted and new …