Protection Cluster

MOGADISHU — Police in Mogadishu Tuesday morning recovered the bodies of two children who had gone missing front their home Monday night. According to the police, the bodies of the two children aged five and seven were recovered at Weydo area in the outskirts of Mogadishu. The boy, aged seven …

MOGADISHU —  At least two minors were killed and three wounded after they encountered unexploded ordinance in southern Somalia on Monday, authorities said. The minors were ages 7 to 14, and the two boys claimed by the explosion were brothers, according to local authorities in the southern province of Gedo. …

MOGADISHU —  At least five people including civilians were killed and more than six others wounded when a bomb blast went off at a busy restaurant in southern Somalia on Sunday, officials said. The bomb blast took place in the vicinity of Awdhegle, 30 kilometers (18 miles) from the city …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations in Somalia recently partnered with a leading Somali non-governmental organization to step up the fight against female genital mutilation (FGM) in two of the Horn of Africa country’s Federal Member States. “This partnership agreement that we have signed with the Ifrah Foundation will provide further …

MOGADISHU — The federal Member States of Jubaland and South West State in Somalia, joined the rest of the world on Thursday in commemorating the 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence (GBV), with a pledge to eliminate violence against women and children in Somalia. Organised by the Protection, Human …

MOGADISHU — At least eight people were killed and over 17 others wounded in a car bombing that rocked Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Thursday morning, police said. A police officer told Anadolu Agency that the attack targeted a convoy of the African Union peacekeeping mission in Somalia (AMISOM). “The bomb attack …

MOGADISHU — A Somali journalist with state-run media was killed Saturday in Mogadishu when a suicide bomber blew up his car, government officials and his colleagues said. Another journalist also was injured. Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, better known as Afrika, the director of the state-run Radio Mogadishu, died from his wounds, …

KISMAYO — The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), has concluded a five-day training workshop on the prevention and response to sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in Kismayo, the administrative capital of Jubaland State. The Training of Trainers course was attended by 25 (15 male and ten female) trainers on …

MOGADISHU —  At least eight people were killed and 13 others wounded in a bomb blast in Somalia’s South West State on Friday. The explosion occurred in a busy market in the town of Berdale, located some 310 kilometers (192 miles) from the capital Mogadishu, a police official told Anadolu …

MOGADISHU — Twenty-four military officers serving under the Africa Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) and the Somali National Army (SNA), have completed a five-day training to combat gender-based violence and enhance child protection during military operations.  Held in Mogadishu, the training was facilitated by the United Kingdom Mission Support Team …