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ADDIS ABABA — The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) on Tuesday appealed for 42.6 million U.S. dollars life-saving aid to help millions affected by the catastrophic drought in the Horn of Africa (HOA). The UN Refugee Agency, in a statement issued Tuesday, said the funding will deliver life-saving …

MOGADISHU — A devastating drought weighing on Somalia’s economy is poised to push inflation close to 10%, the highest level in more than 15 years, by the end of the year, according to central bank Governor Abdirahman Abdullahi. The Horn of Africa nation is experiencing its worst drought in four …

MOGADISHU — Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud tested negative for COVID-19 on Wednesday, according to his spokesman, Abdikarin Ali Kaar. “Today, the President tested negative for COVID-19, and I can share with the Somali people that today’s testing of the President shows that he has recovered from Covid-19,” the spokesman …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s Minister of Planning and Economic Development Amb. Gamal Mohamed Hassan accompanied by the Director General of the Ministry Asad Yussuf Qanyare on Monday received the representative of UNICEF for Somalia, Ms. Wafaa ElFadil Saeed Abdelatef. The UNICEF envoy had paid courtesy call on the Minister at his …

MOGADISHU — Somali Federal Government has delivered food aid to Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) in the regional State of Southwest. A plane carrying a consignment of food supplies touched down at Hudur Airport in Bakool region on Monday after leaving Mogadishu’s Aden Abdulle International Airport in the morning. A high …

MOGADISHU — From 13 to 17 June 2022, the Federal Ministry of Health and Human Services and the World Health Organization (WHO) country office for Somalia hosted a technical mission from WHO headquarters and Regional Office for the Eastern Mediterranean, comprising experts from the new Innovation Hub team, as well …

MOGADISHU – The World Heath Organization (WHO) has on Thursday said that more than 934,000 people in Somalia have received the first dose of the oral cholera vaccine. WHO officials outlined that the youngest recipients of the vaccine were children aged 1 year adding that expectant women also showed up …

KISMAYO — More than 30 children have died of malnutrition in the past 48 hours at Kismayo Hospital in the Lower Juba region. According to the administration of the children’s hospital, they were brought from the drought-stricken areas districts of Lower Juba region. Feisal Adan Ibrahim, head of the malnutrition …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’a new President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Friday he had tested positive for COVID-19 and was in self-isolation. Abdikarim Ali Kaar, Mohamud’s spokesperson, said the president had returned to Somalia on Friday from a trip to the United Arab Emirates. The official Somali president’s Twitter account shows …

MOGADISHU — Families affected by drought in rural Somalia are being forced to make impossible choices, including traveling long distances to access health services and food on empty stomachs or staying home and suffering in silence. Somalia has had four failed rainy seasons, pushing the country into a drought and …