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LONDON — UK Minister for Africa Vicky Ford has announced a new £25 million ($31.4 million) aid package to provide vital services to almost a million people in Somalia, as the country teeters on the brink of widespread famine, the Foreign Office said on Tuesday. Speaking at a roundtable event …

GENEVA — Today in Geneva, the United States announced more than $200 million in additional assistance to respond to humanitarian needs in the Horn of Africa, including from the devastating drought and to address the needs of refugees, internally displaced persons, and conflict-affected population in the region. This assistance, through …

MOGADISHU —  King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) yesterday distributed 6,364 food baskets weighing 427 tons in Banadir region, Mogadishu, Somalia, targeting the districts of Karan, Kahada, Daynili and Gersabali , benefiting 36,000 people. This comes within the food security support project implemented by the center in Somalia, …

UNITED NATIONS — United Nations partners are taking a different approach to famine prevention in Somalia: focusing on collaboration with local authorities and communities in at-risk areas, UN humanitarians said on Friday. “In 2016/2017, a similar shift coupled with timely and scaled up humanitarian assistance averted famine in Somalia,” the …

BAIDOA — Somalia’s South West State (SWS) Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management (MoHADM) has delivered Food Aid to Huddur town. The aid included rice, flour, sugar, oil and dates which was donated by local leaders, businessmen and other local people. South West State is one of the States …

NAIROBI — Several parts of Somalia is expected to receive heavy rain falls in the coming days according to International organization. In a statement posted on its platform on Wednesday, the Intergovernmental Development on Authority (IGAD) Climate Prediction and Applications Center (ICPAC) forecasted the imminent rainfall in the Horn of …

MOGADISHU — Jubbaland State Minister of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management Abdirahman Abdi Ahmed met with Swedish Ambassador to Somalia Per Lindgärde. The meeting took place on April 14 in the Kenya’s capital Nairobi. The Minister briefed the Ambassador about the current drought situation in Jubbaland State and ways in …

GENEVA — UN agencies are calling on international donors to act now and provide the funds needed to prevent another potentially devastating famine in Somalia. Millions of Somalis are in need of life-saving assistance. Three years of extreme drought has brought Somalia to its knees. Some six million people or 40 …

MOGADISHU — Turkish Red Crescent (TRC) has disbursed food packages to 500 needy families living in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu on Tuesday. The humanitarian organization said it will continue distributing more food parcels and organize iftar dinners for needy people during this holy month of Ramadan. Mogadishu hosts a number of …

NAIROBI — Millions of people in Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia are experiencing a drought of a length not experienced in the last 40 years, the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) said Monday. IGAD, which has an eight-country trade bloc in Africa, through its Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) said at …