PLATFORMS

LONDON (SOHA) – Harriett Baldwin, the British Foreign Office development minister for Africa, has completed a tour of East African nations to announce development and humanitarian aid from the United Kingdom. Baldwin made stops in Uganda, Ethiopia and Somalia, including a visit with President Muse Bihi in Somaliland to pledge UK …

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 …

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 …

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 …

ONTARIO (SOHA) — Four Rivers Health Care in Ontario began in 1999 as a clinic to serve the medical needs of low-income people not covered by insurance or other programs, but has now added services to help some of the area’s newest residents — immigrants and refugees. The Welcome Center, …