JOWHAR — Issak Ahmed Hussein the captain of Towfik Internally Displaced Persons Football Team was looking forward to the football match against African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) soldiers stationed in Jowhar, the capital of Hirshabelle State. Previously, when the football opponents faced each other five years ago, the …
Read More »UN launches initiative to improve public services in Southwest Somalia
BAIDOA — The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has joined forces with key stakeholders in Baidoa, the largest city of the South-West State of Somalia, to boost community participation and improve public services. The UNDP said the partnership with the Ministry of Planning, Investment, and Economic Development and the municipality …
Read More »UN launches initiative to improve public services in SWS
MOGADISHU — The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has joined forces with key stakeholders in Baidoa, the largest city of the South-West State of Somalia, to boost community participation and improve public services. The UNDP said the partnership with the Ministry of Planning, Investment, and Economic Development and the municipality …
Read More »QRCS launches warm winter campaign in 13 countries
DOHA — Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) is implementing its Warm Winter campaign 2023-2024, under the theme “Humanity First: Hope for Warmth”. In a press release, QRCS said that its foreign representation offices/missions began implementing the campaign which involves a wide range of winterization projects and aid for the benefit …
Read More »QRCS launches warm winter campaign in 13 countries
DOHA — Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) is implementing its Warm Winter campaign 2023-2024, under the theme “Humanity First: Hope for Warmth”. In a press release, QRCS said that its foreign representation offices/missions began implementing the campaign which involves a wide range of winterization projects and aid for the benefit …
Read More »KSrelief steps up aid, medical projects in 5 countries
RIYADH — The Saudi aid agency KSrelief has stepped up relief efforts in Yemen, Lebanon, Turkiye, Somalia and Pakistan. KSrelief’s prosthetics center in Yemen has provided help to hundreds of people in the war-torn country through physical therapy and other services. The rehabilitation center in Marib governorate provided 2,121 services …
Read More »SoDMA chief inspects ongoing construction at Madina Gen. Hospital in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU — The Chairman of Somali Disaster Management Agency(SoDMA), Mahamoud Moallim Abdulle, on Saturday visited the largest trauma care centre at Madina General Hospital . The purpose of the visit was to inspect the progress of ongoing construction of the hospital. During his visit, the Chairman engaged talks with senior …
Read More »UNICEF sensitizes children on flood response in Kismayo
MOGADISHU — Officials from the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) have carried out a sensitization program for thousands of high school children from Somalia on outbreak response. UNICEF in a statement said, they sensitized 1,500 high school children in Jubbaland’s administrative capital on different aspects of natural calamity response including …
Read More »Mahaas school re-established after Al-shabaab attack
JOWHAR — The deputy minister of education for the federal government of Somalia, Ahmed Osman Ibrahin, officially re-launched a school in the Mahaas area that had been demolished a few months earlier by Al-Shabaab militants The district commissioner of the Mahaas district, Mumin Mohamed Halane, and the minister of education …
Read More »IGAD warns of heavy rains in HoA until March 2024
NAIROBI — The greater part of the Horn of Africa is expected to receive heavy rains between January and March 2024, with the weather pattern following recent El Nino rains, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) said on Friday. The institution, based in the Kenyan …
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