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HARGEISA — The Government of the Republic of Somaliland has reacted strongly to a statement from the World Health Organization (WHO), which criticized the recent attacks on healthcare facilities in Las Anod. “The Government of the Republic of Somaliland is deeply disturbed by the recent statement from the World Health …

MOGADISHU — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud has committed 10 million U.S. dollars to tackling the triple challenges of desertification, climate change, and biodiversity losses. The commitment will be part of the country’s allocation from the adaptation fund in collaboration with the International Fund for Agricultural Development, Mohamud said while …

MOGADISHU — The World Health Organization (WHO) has condemned the latest attack on a health facility in a disputed city in Somalia’s Somaliland region, where dozens of people were killed and injured, including healthcare workers and patients. The WHO said that Tuesday’s fighting in Las Anod also resulted in the …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has deplored the deaths of six children who were among the victims of a landmine explosion that killed eight people Sunday near the town of Bulaburde, south-central Somalia. Wafaa Saeed Abdelatef, the UNICEF representative in Somalia, said the children were part of …

MOGADISHU — As part of its humanitarian contribution to achieving comprehensive and sustainable development for needy groups, Qatar Charity  has donated a set of fishing boats equipped with the necessary equipment and tools to low-income fishermen in Somalia. The project aims to enable fishermen to increase their productivity and improve …

MOGADISHU — A passenger plane on a domestic flight crash-landed at Mogadishu’s international airport on Tuesday. All 30 passengers and four crew members survived, the Somali Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement. The E-120 aircraft, operated by local airline company Halla Airlines, was flying from Garowe in Somalia’s Puntland …

JOWHAR — Doctors from the Burundi contingent serving with the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia (ATMIS) have provided free medical care to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) from Towfik in Jowhar town. Speaking during the medical exercise, held last week, Maj. (Dr.) Severin Irambona, the Sector 5 Medical Officer, said …

MOGADISHU — The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) is calling for enhanced early warning and anticipatory action in Somalia ahead of an expected El Niño and positive Indian Ocean Dipole (IOD) event and the start of the upcoming Deyr rainy season in October 2023 that could …

UNITED NATIONS — The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF), a multi-donor country-based pooled mechanism established to allocate funding for the most urgent interventions in Somalia, has allocated $25 million to provide life-saving assistance to drought-affected communities, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Wednesday. Additionally, the …

ADDIS ABABA — The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Wednesday called for urgent donor support to strengthen resilience and prepare for further floods expected later this year due to the El Nino weather phenomenon. In its latest Horn of Africa (HoA) drought response situation report issued Wednesday, the IOM …