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NEW YORK (SoOHA) – An estimated 169 million children missed out on the first dose of the measles vaccine between 2010 and 2017, or 21.1 million children a year on average, UNICEF said today. Widening pockets of unvaccinated children have created a pathway to the measles outbreaks hitting several countries around …

BOSASO (SoOHA) – In the second part in our new weekly series on conditions in IDP camps across the country, Radio Ergo visited Bedbado camp in Bosaso. The camp has no health centre, leaving pregnant women reliant on an untrained but passionate traditional midwife. Faduma Hassan has been delivering babies …

KISMAYO (SoOHA) – The Jubbaland government supported by the UN children’s fund UNICEF has been delivering water to 14 villages hit by severe water shortage around the southern Somali town of Kismayo. Water reservoirs and boreholes in Lower Jubba region have dried up after rains failed, leaving many communities in …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Seventy families have been forced to spend cold nights out in the open after their shelters in an internal displacement (IDP) camp in Hargeisa were destroyed by fire. The fire on 2 April burnt the whole of Nasahablod B camp, as strong winds fanned the flames. Fire …

ERIGAVO (SoOHA) – For the first time in her life, 11-year-old Saynab Farah Mohamed wakes up every day to go to school instead of herding her family’s livestock. Saynab and 49 other children, whose nomadic pastoralist families have been forced from one place to another by successive droughts affecting northern Somalia …

ELBARDE (SoOHA) – Four people have died in the past three weeks in a measles outbreak in southern Somalia’s Bakool region, in an area close to the Ethiopian border. According to Dr Asar Adan Mohamed, who operates one of two maternal and child health services (MCH) clinics in Elbarde town, …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Form four final exams will start next month in various parts of the country, the Ministry of Education has said in a newly released timetable. The Deputy Minister of Education Feysal Omar Guled, told the media that the 2018/2019 form four final exams will kick off on …

HAVANA (SoOHA) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel spoke by phone on Thursday with his counterparts in Kenya and Somalia about negotiations for the release of two Cuban doctors abducted a week ago in Kenya. Diaz-Canel said via Twitter that he spoke with Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta and Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) 2018 Annual report reveals a drop in donor contributions to the fund in 2018 by 5 per cent, compared to the previous year. According to the report, between January-December 2018, the SHF mobilized $54.3 million while in 2017$56.9 million was received in contribution. …

GAALKAYO (SoOHA) – Over 60 goats and sheep have died and hundreds are infected in a sheep measles outbreak in northern Somalia’s Mudug region, according to local herders. Sheep measles, which is caused by a tapeworm parasite, hasspread to Bajela, Eldibir, Budbud, and Hingod villages in Mudug region. The director …