Protection Cluster

MOGADISHU — Somalia and the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) on Monday launched an online Child Protection Information Management System (CPIMS+) to enhance the protection of the most vulnerable children in Somalia. Hanifa M. Ibrahim, Somali Minister of Women and Human Rights Development said the CPIMS+ will strengthen their collective ability …

MOGADISHU — Somali Prime Minister Mohamed Roble on Saturday ordered investigations into the deaths of seven civilians reportedly killed by the African Union troops during a counter-offensive in Golweyn, the southern part of the country. The prime minister’s spokesman Mohamed Moalimuu said Roble has formed a ministerial committee to probe …

MOGADISHU — Young people living in Somalia are among those most at risk of the impacts of climate change, threatening their health, education, and protection, according to a UNICEF report launched today. ‘The Climate Crisis Is a Child Rights Crisis: Introducing the Children’s Climate Risk Index’ is the first comprehensive analysis of …

MOGADISHU – At least two people were killed and several others wounded on Thursday evening in a suicide bomb explosion in the Somali capital Mogadishu, an official said. The site of the blast was near the headquarters of the country’s National Intelligence and Security Agency, with a soldier among those killed, …

NEW YORK — China on Thursday said that it is ready to make positive contribution to lasting peace in Somalia. “We stand ready to work with the international community to make positive contribution to lasting peace and sustainable development in Somalia,” Dai Bing, charge d’affaires of China’s permanent mission to …

MOGADISHU —  The Director General of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Adv. Hersi Haji Olosow, received today in his office at the Ministry the credentials of the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Somalia, Mr. Magatte Guisse. During the meeting, …

MOGADISHU — The African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia said it was investigating reports that civilians were killed during a gunfight between the mission’s troops and al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters. Dozens of people protested outside a Mogadishu hospital where the remains of victims had been brought, vowing to fight the …

MOGADISHU — Somali media reported that at least 15 people were killed and several others injured in two separate blasts in central and southern Somalia. The first blast occurred in the Mudug district in central Somalia, where a car carrying citizens passing through the city of Baadwein exploded, killing eight …

MOGADISHU — A father in Lower Shabelle has told a radio station in Somalia on Tuesday that AMISOM forces operating near the Golweyn village killed his son and six other civilians. In an interview with Radio Mogadishu, Mohamed Yonis Aden said his son was murdered close to a farm. “My …

NEW YORK — The UN secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, and the special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, said Thursday that they were appalled by the alarming increase in the scale and severity of sexual violence in Somalia. In 2020, 400 civilians, …