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UNITED NATIONS — The world body is readying itself in response to flooding as the rainy season in Somalia comes early. The rainy season, which normally runs from April to June, made an early start this year, bringing heavy rains in some parts of the country, said the UN Office …

MOGADISHU — Flash floods resulting from heavy rains have claimed the lives of at least 14 individuals, displaced thousands, and caused property damage in the Baardheere District of the Gedo region, according to reports from the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). OCHA has additionally reported that …

ROME —  The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) welcomed a €25 million contribution from the Government of Germany to provide access to food and other basic goods and services while protecting and restoring productive livelihoods in drought-affected communities in Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia and the Sudan. An extended, …

MOGADISHU — The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said it has reached a staff-level agreement with Somalia on the fifth review under the extended credit facility (ECF) arrangement. The IMF said in a statement released Monday that the agreement will allow the lender to release some funds to Somalia once approved …

MOGADISHU — An estimated 43,000 excess deaths may have occurred in 2022 in Somalia due to severe drought, a figure higher than that of the first year of the 2017-2018 drought, two United Nations agencies and Somalia said on Monday. The World Health Organization (WHO), the United Nations Children’s Fund …

NEW YORK  — The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said that polluted drinking water and the lack of health infrastructure threaten the lives of children around the world. The organization said in a statement Monday that more than a thousand children under the age of five die every day globally …

DOHA — As a part of its Ramadan campaign, the Education Above All (EAA) Foundation announced that it is opening new education opportunities for the most marginalized out-of-school children in Somalia through the “Educate your children II” project. The project is a three-year initiative being implemented across 17 districts within the …

NAIROBI — Life-threatening hunger caused by climate shocks, violent insecurity and disease in the Horn of Africa, have left nearly 130,000 people “looking death in the eyes” and nearly 50 million facing crisis levels of food insecurity, the UN World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday. In an appeal for $178 …

MOGADISHU — More than 70 humanitarian organizations on Thursday called upon donors to urgently fund the current humanitarian appeal in order to respond to the hunger crisis in Somalia, where famine is projected from April to June. The aid agencies, including Save the Children, Oxfam, World Concern and Action Against …

ADDIS ABABA  — The UN Refugee Agency UNHCR on Tuesday said it is scaling up assistance in Ethiopia’s Somali region to support and assist recently arrived refugees fleeing clashes in Somalia. Some 100,000 Somalis have arrived in Ethiopia’s Doolo zone in the Somali region in the past four weeks to …