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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 …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – A rotating savings and loan scheme run by women in a camp for internally displaced families in the Somaliland capital Hargeisa has provided jobs for more than 100 women over the past year and a half. The scheme in Mohamed-Moge camp in Hargeisa with 149 female members …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) today signed a new cooperation agreement with the Federal Government of Somalia, which underlines both parties’ mutual interest to strengthen cooperation and to work together on migration issues to promote economic and social development. The agreement was signed in Mogadishu by IOM …

ADADO (SoOHA) – Somali women are making inroads into the traditionally male domain of livestock marketing in the central Somalia town of Adado. Sirad Ibrahim Abdulle was one of the first local women to venture into the business with an initial investment of $1,000 four years ago. Sirad told Radio …

BELET WEYNE (SoOHA) –  According to the latest figures from the United Nations floods in Somalia’s Hiraan region have now displaced 370,000 people, 200,000 of whom are children. With the overflow of the Shabelle river early this October, numerous communities found themselves submerged and trapped in their homes. For many, …

SANA’A (SoOHA)  – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) have helped 5,087 Somali refugees return home from Yemen since 2017. In this latest departure, a boat carrying 145 Somali refugees left the Port of Aden today and will arrive at the Port …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Around 3,000 families have fled their homes in villages in Bal’ad in southern Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region, after a dam on the River Shabelle burst. The floodwaters from the dam washed away homes in 16 villages, forcing people to seek help in the district town of Bala’d. …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The UN chief in Somalia James Swan has urged Somali youth to champion their rights and those of others noting the country relied on them to chart its future destiny. Swan said in a statement to mark the UN Human Rights Day Tuesday the youth in Somalia should …

MOGADISHU(SoOHA) – UNDP Resident Representative, Jocelyn Mason has urged Somalia to get to grips it challenges so that it is not left behind while the developed world speeds ahead. Mason made the comments after UNDP launched its latest Human Development Report – one of the world’s most highly regarded assessments …