PLATFORMS

Diaspora groups – migrants, refugees and their descendants – are important development actors in countries affected by protracted conflict and poverty. Their assistance ranges from remittances to disaster relief and development projects, providing a lifeline in crisis and contributing to long-term processes of change. Somali-Swedish engagement is a case in …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) has handed over 600 gas cylinders, 300 fuel-efficient cooking stoves, and 20 tons of briquettes to the Federal Government for distribution to IDP communities and communities in Mogadishu, for use in cooking as an alternative to charcoal. The donation of equipment …

BORAMA (SOHA) – The University of Amoud, in partnership with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and with funding from the Global Environment Facility (GEF), has launched a first of its kind Master Programme in Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability, with thirty students from Somaliland, Puntland, Jubaland, Galmudug, South West, …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) –  H.E.Abdirahman Omar Osman (Eng. Yarisow), the Mayor of Mogadishu & Governor of Benadir Region has launched an urgent appeal to save lives of Internally Displaced People (IDPS) in the capital city of Mogadishu who are facing the worst humanitarian crises as the rain season intensifies. Mayor Yarisow …

MOGADISHU ( SOHA) – The African Development Bank has launched the Say No to Famine – Short-Term Regional Emergency Response Project, STRERP, for Somalia. As a response to food security, the Bank has supported the people of Somalia, mobilizing approximately $34 million, from both the Transition Support Facility of the …

BAIDOA (SOHA) – Qatar Charity (QC) has started the distribution of dry food to more than 6,000 families affected by drought in Baidoa city of Somalia. Thousands of Somali families have been displaced from affected remote areas to nearby villages and towns, due to the drought, which has frequently occurred …

TIMISOARA, ROMANIA – Somali refugee Fadumo Nour Zein, 81, sits on a metal bed in a UNHCR centre in western Romania, patting the knee of her 46-year-old daughter Fatima on her left and grandson Ali on her right. After years of uncertainty, she is finally happy. For 20 years Fadouma did …

Dadaab (SOHA) – The UN top envoy in Somalia ended a two-day visit to Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camp where he highlighted the gradual progress made in the Horn of Africa nation. Michael Keating, UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia, who met with camp residents and some about to return to Somalia, …

NIAMEY, NIGER –  Somali mother of two Amina* was strong and vigorous before she fell into the hands of Libyan traffickers. After more than a year of relentless beatings and electric shocks, she is now broken and unable to walk. ”When I arrived in Libya, I was walking, nobody had …

BAIDOA (SOHA) – Qatar Charity (QC) has started distribution of dry food to more than 6,000 families affected by drought in Baidoa city of Somalia. The drought has displaced thousands of Somali families from remote areas affected to nearby villages and towns. In a statement, Qatar Charity said the dry …