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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, …

Aid programs in East Africa may be forced to shut down following a cut down of funds for refugees by western governments. The Norwegian Refugee Council now warns the  budget cuts are hitting the East Africa aid sector hard adding that if more funding isn’t found, malnutrition will rise, schools …

Four million children globally do not attend school, the UN has said noting this is an increase of half a million children in just one year amid ongoing wars in countries such as Syria and Yemen. In a report Wednesday, the UN refugee agency UNHCR said the response from world …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Marka town administration has called on the residents of the town to come back to their homes safely after they have fled from clashes in the town last week. Hassan Omar, the district commissioner of Marka town said: “the security in the town is now stable and …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The UN humanitarian agency said on Monday humanitarian assistance needs to be sustained in Somalia to support the 5.4 million people who are still in need. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), in its latest report, said food security continues to improve as …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – Around 3,000 families fleeing violence in Ethiopia’s Somali region have crossed the border into Somaliland, where they are mostly seeking refuge with extended family relatives in Somaliland. Women, children and elderly people make up the majority of the people fleeing from Jigjiga, capital of the Somali region …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somali security forces are searching for five aid workers who were kidnapped by gunmen in the south-west of the country. Reports indicate that the aid workers were abducted on the outskirts of Baidoa, which lies some 250 kilometers southwest of the capital Mogadishu. They were on a …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) –  Five Red Crescent aid workers were kidnapped by suspected al-Shabaab militants in southwestern Somalia on Thursday, officials said. Mohamed Isak Ibrahim Aflow, director for NISA, the Somali national intelligence and security agency, in the southwestern Bay region, told reporters that the Red Crescent humanitarian workers were kidnapped …

ADEN (SOHA) – Jacqueline Parlevliet, Head of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, UNHCR, Sub Office in Yemen, has extended deep thanks to the Emirates Red Crescent, ERC, for supporting its commissioners. Parlevliet also hailed the ERC’s partnership with the UNHCR, to provide humanitarian assistance to the Somali refugees in …