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MOGADISHU — Somalia received 302,400 doses of the Johnson & Johnson coronavirus vaccine, donated by the US through the COVAX facility, a global initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines. Thanking the US for the donation in a statement late Thursday, Somalia’s Health Ministry said this was the first batch …

NEW YORK — China on Thursday said that it is ready to make positive contribution to lasting peace in Somalia. “We stand ready to work with the international community to make positive contribution to lasting peace and sustainable development in Somalia,” Dai Bing, charge d’affaires of China’s permanent mission to …

MOGADISHU —  The Director General of Protocol at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Adv. Hersi Haji Olosow, received today in his office at the Ministry the credentials of the representative of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Somalia, Mr. Magatte Guisse. During the meeting, …

MOGADISHU — The African Union’s peacekeeping mission in Somalia said it was investigating reports that civilians were killed during a gunfight between the mission’s troops and al Qaeda-linked al Shabaab fighters. Dozens of people protested outside a Mogadishu hospital where the remains of victims had been brought, vowing to fight the …

NAIROBI/GENEVA — The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) has warned that Somalia is on the cusp of a humanitarian catastrophe. One in 4 people face high levels of acute food insecurity and more than 800,000 children under the age of five are at risk of …

MOGADISHU — Somali media reported that at least 15 people were killed and several others injured in two separate blasts in central and southern Somalia. The first blast occurred in the Mudug district in central Somalia, where a car carrying citizens passing through the city of Baadwein exploded, killing eight …

MOGADISHU — The Ministry of Health and Human Service of the Federal Government of Somalia has delivered emergency medical supplies and drugs to Jowhar, the capital of HirShabelle state. The Ministry handed over the equipment to the Minister of the State for Health and the Director-General of the Ministry of …

MOGADISHU — A father in Lower Shabelle has told a radio station in Somalia on Tuesday that AMISOM forces operating near the Golweyn village killed his son and six other civilians. In an interview with Radio Mogadishu, Mohamed Yonis Aden said his son was murdered close to a farm. “My …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s First Lady Saynab Abdi Moallim lauded the Qatari support for the Somali people, which are extended to implement developmental projects and alleviate the suffering of the vulnerable in times of adversities. This came in a speech Moallim delivered during the inaugural ceremony of the health centre built …

MOGADISHU — Somalia on Sunday received 108,000 additional doses of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine to help intensify the fight against the pandemic in the country. The vaccines were donated by the French government through the COVAX Facility in continued efforts to protect Somalia’s population from COVID-19. Fawziya Abikar Nur, Somali …