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NEW YORK — The UN secretary-general’s special representative for children and armed conflict, Virginia Gamba, and the special representative on sexual violence in conflict, Pramila Patten, said Thursday that they were appalled by the alarming increase in the scale and severity of sexual violence in Somalia. In 2020, 400 civilians, …

GARBAHAREY — The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) has handed over learning materials to the local administration and management of Gherille Primary School in Gedo region, Jubaland State of Somalia, to boost education in the area. The donated items include desks, plastic chairs, office tables, wooden blackboards, office filing …

MOGADISHU — Ahmed Mohamud, an elderly pastoralist from Mudug region in north-central Somalia, has witnessed the devastations climate change has wrought in his ancestral village where livestock keeping has strong economic and cultural value to his folks. Mohamud belongs to a fading generation of Somali herders who have nostalgic memories …

MOGADISHU — Students pursuing a degree in Nursing from Mogadishu University(MU) do not have to repeat the course in the U.S since their qualifications match those of their peers in U.S universities, an international evaluation organization in the U.S has established. In its assessment of a nursing graduate from Mogadishu …

MOGADISHU — Somalia has recorded 53 new cases of Coronavirus in the last 24 hours raising the total number of confirmed cases in the Horn of African Nation to 15,456. Out of the new cases, 29 males and 24 are female according to the health ministry. Two people have succumbed …

MOGADISHU — Twenty-five Somali journalists have benefitted from a one-day virtual training to enhance their effectiveness in reporting on female candidates in the ongoing parliamentary and presidential elections to help advance election of more women. The training was organized by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), in collaboration with …

KISMAYO — At least four football players  have been killed and six others wounded in IED explosion in the coastal city of Kismayo. The players who traveling in mini bus were headed to a stadium in Kismayo where Jubaland Vice President Mohamud Sayid Aden was to officially open a football competition. …

MOGADISHU — De Martini hospital director, Dr. Abdirizak Yusuf Ahmed,  tested positive for the COVID-19 in Turkey on Wednesday. Abdirizak who travelled to Turkey to donate one kidney to his brother had undergone a Rapid Antigen Test which came in positive. “ I would like to inform my Somali brothers …

MOGADISHU — With the support of the US-funded National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Somali Journalists Syndicate (SJS) launched a series of human rights reporting training for local journalists on Wednesday to support the capacity of Somali journalists aimed to boost the capacity of the journalists in reporting the underreported human …

MOGADISHU — Somalia, plagued with persistent incidents of piracy and rampant illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, is aiming to tighten its fishing licensing regime in order to end loopholes that result in illegal activity. Amid claims of deep-rooted corruption within Somalia’s fishing industry, the country’s Ministry of Fisheries and …