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MOGADISHU(SOHA) – The International Organization for Migration (IOM) this week (19/12) opened a new main office in Mogadishu, constructed after the request of the Government of Somalia to support ongoing migration management programmes in the country. Following International Migrants Day, IOM staff members, together with the Somali Government, gathered to …

HARGEISA(SOHA) – Hargeisa General Hospital has recorded 478 cases of tuberculosis (TB) in the last 45 days, marking a significant rise of the deadly infectious disease. The hospital report shows that 300 of the people diagnosed with TB came from rural areas of Sanaag, Togdher, and the western coast of …

HAGADERA(SOHA) – Somali refugee women in Kenya are putting their traditional cooking skills to good use running local restaurants that earn them a good living and provide a local service. Ladan Abdi Khalif, a mother of three, is among several women who have started small businesses cooking and selling traditional …

KISMAYO(SOHA) – Somali fishermen in the southern port town of Kismayo are celebrating the gains from the recent opening up of a new market for their fishing in Kenya, ending years of reliance on the limited local market. Kah Commercial Fishing Company earlier this year was the first Somali firm …

SOOL(SOHA) – Six years after she fled her home, Sainab Mohamed has returned to rebuild her life and business in a conflict-torn part of northern Somalia’s Sool region, following a successfully negotiated peace settlement to end the hostilities between two neighbouring clans in Taleh. The mother of four has reopened …

KALABAYR(SOHA) – A primary school in northern Somalia’s troubled Sool region has been overwhelmed with students because of an influx of conflict-displaced families into the town. The administration of Kalabayr School in Kalabayr town is trying to implement shift learning owing to its limited capacity. The school had an initial …

KISMAYO(SOHA) – Yurub Ali Hassan, 28, can see a new future opening up in front of her after undergoing successful fistula surgery in Kismayo town, southern Somalia. She had been leading a normal life until six years ago when she was attended by a traditional birth attendant. The labour was …

MOGADISHU(SOHA) – Conflict, drought and floods have pushed a record number of Somalis into Mogadishu, making it Africa’s most crowded city, the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre said on Tuesday. With more than 340,000 people forced to flee their homes in the first half of 2018, the year is likely to …

HARGEISA(SOHA) – Save the Children in coordination with Somaliland health ministry have launched an awareness and treatment campaign for pneumonia in a bid to reduce child deaths from this often overlooked disease. Somaliland’s ministry of health records show that 14,000deathsfrom pneumonia in 2017. Save the Children, an NGO, trained 90 …

JOWHAR(SOHA) – A mass livestock immunisation campaign has begun in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region targeting over one million goats and sheep. The vaccinations started in 100 villages in Jowhar, Mahaday, Bal’ad, Warsheikh, and Adale amid an outbreak of sheep measles (Cysticercusovis) and sheep and goat pox (SGP). Omar Adan Samatar, …