Protection Cluster

OTTAWA (SOHA) – Canada is providing assistance to address the critical needs of the millions of people in Somalia who continue to face hunger, disease, displacement, physical insecurity and loss of livelihoods as a result of the ongoing conflict and natural disasters, especially drought. The Honourable Ahmed D. Hussen, Minister …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The devastating 2017 drought was felt throughout Somalia, and UNICEF scaled up its operations to mitigate the worst effects. As both the Gu (April/May) and the Deyr (November/December) rains failed, we saw animals die, crops fail and a huge exodus of people from their homes to makeshift …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The Government of Japan is providing generous funding to UNICEF to support children with proper sanitation facilities in schools, keep them in education and provide abused women and children with support services, UNICEF said today. The US$3million grant will, over the course of the next year, help some …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – Khayria Abdiwahab Yahye, 17, is a refugee from Yemen. She came to Somaliland nearly two years ago amidst the civil war back home. “I came by boat,” she says. “I was going to school in another town away from my family. When the fighting grew worse, I ran …

Dadaab (SOHA) – The UN top envoy in Somalia ended a two-day visit to Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp where he highlighted the gradual progress made in the Horn of Africa nation. Michael Keating, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, who met with camp residents and some about to return to Somalia, …