Protection Cluster

MOGADISHU —  Many Somali people still remember how, when civil war gripped their own country, an influx of refugees fled to countries like Yemen and Syria, where they stayed several years until Somalia got back on track its current, slow-moving path towards peace. Those who fled to Yemen were not …

MOGADISHU  — Somalia’s worst drought in decades has millions of people dependent on food aid and thousands flocking to cities to escape hunger. At makeshift shelters on the outskirts of the capital, displaced people face cramped conditions and poor sanitation in the middle of the COVID-19 pandemic. Somali villagers escaping …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s government spokesperson was wounded on Sunday in an explosion at a road junction set off by a suicide bomber in the capital Mogadishu, police and the national news agency said. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, in comments on its Andalus radio station, claimed responsibility for …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) has condemned Wednesday’s attack in the capital Mogadishu which left at least nine people dead and fourteen others wounded. The responsibility of the attack was claimed by al-Shabaab, which has waged an Islamist war in the Horn of African nation …

MOGADISHU — At least 8 people have been killed and 9 others injured in a suicide car bomb explosion targeting a UN security convoy on 21st road in Mogadishu’s Waberi district near Aden Abdulle International Airport. Residents of Banadir reported hearing a loud bang at noon local time as a …

LASANOD – Fighting has reportedly erupted this morning in Saax-meygag area of Sool region, near Garowe, the administrative capital of Puntland. Reports say that the fighting between the two clans living in Sool and Nugal regions is based on grazing land in that area. The exact number of casualties is …

GURIEL – More than 300,000 people in Somalia’s Galgaduud region have been affected by a severe drought that has gripped most of the country and forced the federal government last month to declare a state of emergency. “There is not enough food, not enough water,” says Deeko Adan Warsame, the chair …

MOGADISHU — The Government of Finland has today announced a grant of 7.65 million Euros in support of strengthening educational services for Somali children. The grant will be administered through UNICEF Somalia’s education programme. Speaking during the launch of this partnership in Mogadishu today, Federal Minister of Education Culture and …

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. …