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MOGADISHU(SOHA) – Attacks on aid workers delivering supplies in Somalia resulted in the death of eight staff and injuries of 12 others between January and September, the UN humanitarian agency said in a report on Friday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said some 90 violent …

MOGADISHU(SOHA) – The UN migration agency said on Friday that it has helped 17 Somali migrants to voluntarily return home from Tanzania following months of confinement in detention centers. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the returnees who returned home on Wednesday were rounded up by Tanzanian authorities as …

LONDON(SOHA) – Global Somali Diaspora (GSD) is calling for a thorough investigation of the trafficking of young Somali girls. Indeed, it is very saddening and worrying development the news from the Chair of Somali Women’s Organisation in Banadir Region, Mrs. Jawaahir Barqab. Recently, there was an increase of reports on …

BOSSASO (SOHA) – Unidentified gunmen shot dead four Ethiopian refugees in Bossaso, the commercial capital of the northern Somalia semi-autonomous of Puntland, officials said Monday. Initial reports said that armed men have shot the four civilians thought be ethnic Oromos at a close range in an attack in Santos, a …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The Somali government on Monday called on Iraq to launch urgent investigations into a ship carrying 200,000 bags of charcoal smuggled out of the Horn of Africa nation. Somali Ambassador to the United Nations Abukar Osman said the ship, which has docked at the Iraqi port of …

BAIDOA (SOHA) – Young married mother Duniyo Adan Mohamed, 19, breastfeeds her seven month-old son before she sets off for school in the southwestern Somali town of Baidoa in the morning. She leaves some bottled milk for the baby with her mother, who babysits until Duniyo gets back from class …

DOHA (SOHA) – The partnership between the Qatar Charity Society (QC) and United Nations agencies has witnessed continuous growth, whether in terms of the size of this cooperation or the diversity of its areas or the number of beneficiaries worldwide in the areas of Relief and Development. The QC said in …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – The United Nations refugee agency has urged Kenya to adopt a policy of inclusion instead of using camps in refugee protection. Raouf Mazou, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) representative in Kenya, told Xinhua in Nairobi that restriction of refugees inside camps means that donors’ funds …

BUHODLE (SOHA) – A group of university graduates in Buhodle have provided scholarships to 20 of the best middle school students whose families were unable to afford the fees for them to go on to secondary school. The group has raised funds among them to pay the $300 monthly fees …

OSLOW (SOHA) – Despite constantly being labeled as a “problem group” associated with poverty, social exclusion, high unemployment and an unwillingness to integrate, Somalis appeared the most satisfied group of immigrants to Norway. Somalis ranked first among immigrants in terms of satisfaction with their quality of life, followed by Sri …