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GENEVA — The World Health Organization warned on Wednesday that millions of people in East Africa face the threat of starvation. Speaking at a media briefing in Geneva, WHO Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said that drought, climate change, rising prices and an ongoing civil war in northern Ethiopia are all …

MOGADISHU — The Prime Minister of Somalia, Hamza Abdi Barre on Thursday received the Director General of the WFP, David Beasley at his office in Mogadishu. David Beasley made a visit to Somalia for the first time since the beginning of the drought, which impacted more than 7 million people …

MOGADISHU — The School of Agriculture project jointly organized by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA) and the Istanbul-based charity Humanitarian Aid Foundation (IHH), has revived agricultural activities in Somalia. The project, conceived as a simple school in 2012, has evolved into the Somalia Anatolian Faculty of Agriculture and …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s PM chaired a special cabinet meeting on Wednesday to appoint a national drought committee to coordinate famine relief efforts in Somalia. The PM reactivated the National Disaster Management Agency and appointed a committee of cabinet ministers, business leaders, civil society groups and scholars working alongside government and …

MOGADISHU — The Ministry of Education, Culture and Higher Education has today released results for the 2022 national Secondary School exams. 35,000 National Secondary school students across Somalia sat for their exams In June, conducted in exam centres in Jubaland, Galmudug, Hirshabelle, and southwest states, as well as the Benadir …

JEDDAH — His Excellency the Secretary-General of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, Mr. Hissein Brahim Taha, received today, August 14, 2022, at his office at the headquarters of the General Secretariat in Jeddah, His Excellency Abdul Rahman Abdul Shakour, the Special Envoy of the Somali President for Humanitarian Affairs and …

MOGADISHU — Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TİKA) donated mattresses, bunk beds, a desktop computer, a TV, and a projector to the Central Prison in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, as part of the improvement works. As part of the improvement works carried out for the social reintegration of child …

MOGADISHU — An Emirati aid ship carrying more than 1,000 tonnes of various food and relief supplies has arrived at Mogadishu port in Somalia to meet the needs of approximately 2.5 million people affected by drought. This initiative comes as part of the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Mohamed bin …

GENEVA — UN humanitarian projects face a record funding gap this year, with only a third of the required $48.7 billion secured so far as global needs outpace pledges, a spokesman for the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said on Friday. The money is needed …

BRUSSELS — EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell on Friday commended a recent deal signed in Istanbul enabling Ukraine to ship grain for the UN’s World Food Program (WFP). “Thanks to the Istanbul agreement, Ukraine is again able to deliver grain to the WFP,” Borrell said on Twitter. He hailed …