PLATFORMS

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The UN refugee agency said Tuesday more than 4,800 Somali refugees have so far returned home from Yemen since it started an Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) program in 2017. The UNHCR said 37 organized departures have now taken place from Yemen to Somalia since the ASR program …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The United Nations food agency on Tuesday warned against imminent tropical storm heading to northern Somalia, more than a year after tropical cyclone caused massive destruction in the Horn of Africa nation. The forecast by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) managed Somalia …

BELET WEYNE (SoOHA) – 3 more people have died due to flooding as hundreds of people continue to migrate to higher grounds. Heavy rains in the past weeks have seen atlas 9 people killed and several others unaccounted for. On Monday, 6 people reportedly died when their boat capsized. And some …

BELETWEYN (SoOHA) – The first plane carrying aid to flood victims in the central Hiran Region after the Shabelle River burst its banks landed at the Beledweyn airport yesterday 27 October. According to reports, the plane was also carrying members of the floods management committee set up by Prime Minister …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – At least 72,000 people have been displaced by flooding in Belet Weyne town and other surrounding villages in central Somalia as Shabelle River levels continue to rise, the UN humanitarian agency said on Tuesday. The UN Office for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said it has teamed …

GENEVA (SoOHA) – Climate change is contributing to increasing damage to critical infrastructure around the globe, according to a twelve-year survey of damages caused by small- and medium-scale disasters conducted by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction. Schools, health facilities and roads are regularly damaged by small-scale weather …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Mogadishu mayor, Omar Mohamud Mohamed has held a meeting with the James Swan, UN envoy in Somalia in which he sought to have the UN play a greater role in rebuilding the city. The mayor said that the city had set in place plans to rebuild the …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A cross-section of Somali women met on Monday in Mogadishu to kick start a process towards the development of a National Action Plan (NAP) to strengthen their participation in peacebuilding and socio-economic progress in the stabilization and rebuilding efforts for Somalia. Representing women in politics, civil society and …

GENEVA (SoOHA) – The Somali interior minister Abdi Mohamed Sabriye and his delegation in Geneva, Switzerland will attend the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees conference. This is the 70th meeting, which brought together by member states of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. Minister Sabriye represents Somalia, and as …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The United States has announced $257 million aid support for Somalia adding to close to half a million dollars the U.S government has donated to support humanitarian efforts in Somali this year. USAID assistant administrator Diana Putman said the funding will support humanitarian efforts within the country …