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HARGEISA — Somaliland firefighters have trained 300 people, including 210 women, on preventing and tackling fires in two large IDP camps outside the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa. Nasa-hablod A and B camps have suffered at least five major fires in the last two years, causing loss of life and property. The …

BURAO — The municipal authority in the northern town of Burao, Somaliland, has provided title deeds to 450 internally displaced families, who have been living as squatters near the airport for the past three years. The municipality has given each family a plot measuring 12 x 12 metres on which …

ADDIS ABABA — The most serious outbreak of locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa and posing an unprecedented threat to food security in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries, authorities say. Unusual climate conditions are partly to blame. The locust swarms hang like shimmering dark clouds on …

BELETWEYNE  — Farmers in central Somalia’s Hiran region, whose farms were submerged by recent floods, are having to contend with swarms of locust devouring whatever they have planted since then. Kadiye Abdi Gadod, a farmer in Hodug, 34 km west of Beletweyne town, told Radio Ergo that locust swarms have …

MOGADISHU — King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 750 food baskets for the flood-affected people in Somalia, benefiting 4,500 people. This comes within the framework of the humanitarian and relief projects being provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, represented by KSrelief, to the people of …

HARGEISA — A two-day job fair held in Hargeisa, has helped 50 young people, including 20 women, find gainful employment. The job fair billed as the first of its kind in Hargeisa was held on 29 and 30 December 2019 and was attended by local companies and 300 job seekers. …

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 …

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 …

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 …