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ROME — More than $138 million is needed to assist rural communities affected by extended drought in the Horn of Africa, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said on Monday, launching a comprehensive response plan for the region. A third consecutive year of poor rains is posing a major threat …
Read More »Turkish soup kitchen feeds over 3,000 people in Somalia
MOGADISHU — A soup kitchen in the Somali capital run by the Turkish Red Crescent feeds 3,150 people daily and distributes food to many parts of Mogadishu. The Turkish humanitarian organization has been working in the drought-stricken country since 2011 when Somalia was witnessing one of the deadliest famines in …
Read More »Somali gov’t spokesperson wounded in suicide bomb attack in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU — Somalia’s government spokesperson was wounded on Sunday in an explosion at a road junction set off by a suicide bomber in the capital Mogadishu, police and the national news agency said. The al Qaeda-linked Islamist militant group Al-Shabaab, in comments on its Andalus radio station, claimed responsibility for …
Read More »Somali foreign minister meets with director of AICS
MOGADISHU — The Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdisaid Muse Ali met with Luca Maestripieri in Mogadishu and exchanged views on Italy’s developments strategy towards Somalia. The Minister thanked Italy for its longstanding support of Somalia’s reconstruction and economic development efforts. ”It was a pleasure to meet Mr. Luca Maestripieri, Director …
Read More »United Nations denies reports of personnel killed in Mogadishu suicide attack
MOGADISHU — The United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) has condemned Wednesday’s attack in the capital Mogadishu which left at least nine people dead and fourteen others wounded. The responsibility of the attack was claimed by al-Shabaab, which has waged an Islamist war in the Horn of African nation …
Read More »Suicide car bomb explosion kills 8 people in Mogadishu
MOGADISHU — At least 8 people have been killed and 9 others injured in a suicide car bomb explosion targeting a UN security convoy on 21st road in Mogadishu’s Waberi district near Aden Abdulle International Airport. Residents of Banadir reported hearing a loud bang at noon local time as a …
Read More »Somalia, IOM facilitate return of 91 Somalis from Libya
MOGADISHU — Somalia and the United Nations migration agency, the International Organization for Migration (IOM), have facilitated the return of 91 citizens after more than two years of confinement in detention centers in Libya. Somalia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Abdisaid Muse Ali, who received the nationals who landed at the …
Read More »Report: One out of every two children is underweight due to chronic malnutrition in southern Somalia
MOGADISHU — Save The Children announced Wednesday that one in two children in southern Somalia is undersized by chronic malnutrition because of an ongoing deadly drought that has devastated many in the country. “Nearly half of children under five in the Baidoa district of southern Somalia are suffering from chronic …
Read More »Somali gov’t distributes food aid in drought-stricken areas
MOGADISHU — The Somali government has on Tuesday begun distributing an aid shipment from received from the UAE to assist with the country’s current drought. Somali Minister of Humanitarian Affairs, Khadija Mohamed Diriye said the government has started to distribute the aid to Garbaharey, Beledweyne and Hudur which are one …
Read More »UAE delivers 26 tons of humanitarian aid to Somalis suffering from drought
MOGADISHU — United Arab Emirates has delivered 26 tons of Humanitarian Aid to Somalia today on Friday, as part of the drought relief program, SONNA reported. The aid packages contained nutritious food and medical aid. Minister of Humanitarian affairs and Disaster Management and chairlady of the National Drought Relief Committee, …
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