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MOGADISHU — Galmudug state Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the federal ministry of Agriculture has launched a plan to combat locusts in the area. The initiative also aims to fight against the locusts which landed on crops and destroyed animal pasture in generally. Various farmers and pastoralists have called …

MOGADISHU — Hundreds of people took to the streets of Mogadishu on Thursday, condemning massive explosion that killed nearly 90 people and wounded more than 140 others. The protest came in response to a call from the city’s mayor for a massive rally to pray for those killed and injured …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – On the directives of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani, a Qatari Air Force plane carrying medical aid arrived Monday in Somalia to support those who were injured as a result of the recent terrorist bombing in the capital Mogadishu. The medical and relief …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A Turkish military plane arrived in Somalia’s capital early Sunday bringing help in the wake of a terrorist attack that claimed scores of lives. “Turkish Armed Forces aircraft carrying health services personnel and equipment have arrived in Mogadishu in an effort to provide support for our Somali …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A massive car bomb exploded in a busy area of Mogadishu on Saturday, leaving at least 78 people dead and scores injured in Somalia’s deadliest attack in two years. At least 16 of those killed were students from the capital’s private Banadir University, who had been traveling on …

RIYADH (SoOHA) – The King Salman Center for Relief and Humanitarian Aid (KSrelief) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) signed here today a joint agreement of the nutrition integration project in Gedo and Lower Juba, Somalia. The joint agreement costs USD1,682,000 benefiting 234,310 people. The agreement was signed by …

MOGADISHU(SoOHA) – The northern breakaway region of Somaliland has dispatched a humanitarian delegation to Mogadishu on Saturday after the worst floods forced thousands to flee their houses. The delegation is on a mission to deliver financial assistance to citizens affected by the recent flooding in the city of BeletWeyne. Minister for …

BORAMA (SoOHA) – Nim’a Hassan Mohamud, 24, can see a new future opening up in front of her after undergoing successful fistula surgery in a hospital in Borama in Somaliland. She underwent the operation on 10 September this year after struggling for four years with the physically and emotionally painful …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – Sharmarke Ali Ahmed, 11, is among 10 street children who have started a new life in Garowe, in the northern Somalia’s state of Puntland, thanks to the support of the principal of a local primary school. “I used to sniff glue and sometimes we would sleep on …

ROME (SoOHA) – Somalia faces the worst Desert Locust outbreak in over 25 years, according to an emergency update issued today by the country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Somalia and FAO’s Desert Locust Information Service in Rome. Desert Locust breeding is ongoing in Galmudug (Mudug), Puntland and …