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HARGEISA — Today, in an unprecedented move, Somaliland with the help of IOM has started deporting civilians who have been living there for a long time from Hargeisa. Somaliland’s refugee agency has today deported Oromo families who lived in Somaliland for over 25 years back to Ethiopia, after Somaliland said …

BAIDOA — The Minister of Justice of the South West State, Somalia, Hassan Ibrahim Lugbur, was killed on Friday in a bomb attack on a mosque in Baidoa. Local media outlets say Lugbur’s son was also killed in the attack. Several other people were injured. The bomb went off during …

MOGADISHU — The Turkish Red Crescent (Kizilay) is helping ease the impact of a severe drought in parts of Somalia by distributing food aid and hot meals. “We provide 3,195 hot meals daily from our soup kitchen in Mogadishu which are distributed to 20 different locations in the city,” Rusen …

MOGADISHU — The World Health Organization said Thursday it has recorded nearly 40 cholera-related deaths in Somalia in 2022. “Cholera is endemic in Somalia with recurrent outbreaks reported since 2017. Between 1 January to 10 July 2022, a cumulative number of 7,796 cases of cholera including 37 associated deaths (case fatality …

GAROWE — The Ministry of Education and Higher Education of the Puntland regional state government has announced the names of the top 10 students in the 8th grade exam in Puntland middle schools in 2022. Among the top 10 students, 7 are girls, led by Ikraan Abdirahman Abdullahi, who won …

MOGADISHU — Somali authorities say an aircraft carrying 36 passengers and crew crashed at Mogadishu airport Monday but all on board survived. The Jubba Airways plane was carrying civilian passengers from the southwestern city of Baidoa when it crashed-landed at Mogadishu’s Adan Adde International Airport on Monday. Ahmed Moalim, Somalia’s civil …

MOGADISHU — The German Government has contributed US$ 5 million to Somalia to improve the country’s capacity to deliver life-saving vaccines to remote and hard-to-reach communities. The contribution is part of UNICEF’s efforts with governments globally to take vaccines to the ‘The Last Mile’ – remote, rural, and peri-urban areas …

MOGADISHU — At least three people were killed and more than 14 others wounded when a suicide car bomb blast rocked the town of Jowhar on Sunday, officials said. A police officer in Jowhar told Anadolu Agency that it was a suicide car bomb attack that targeted Nur Dob hotel, killing …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations says in a recent report that the number of people displaced by the drought in Somalia has increased by 231 percent. The report was released by the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), IOM and UNICEF in a joint statement on the drought …

MOGADISHU — The European Union is committing an additional €450,000 of humanitarian funding to support the fight against life-threatening measles outbreaks in Somalia. With measles cases on the rise in 2021-2022, this funding will support the EU-funded CAAFIMAD consortium led by Action Against Hunger (ACF) in contributing to the reduction …