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MOGADISHU — The recent torrential rains across Somalia have affected around 166,000 people, the United Nations humanitarian agency said on Monday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said while the rains have reduced in some areas, it is alarming that Somalia has been hit by a …

MOGADISHU — The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations and the French Government on Tuesday announced a partnership in kind, which will allow FAO and other organizations to strategically focus their flood response efforts with innovations in technology and satellite imagery. In a statement FAO said the …

BELEDWEYNE — Travel to the regional capital of Hirshabelle has been cut off after intense flooding rendered the roads unusable, according to local officials and residents. Hirshabelle administration Minister of Relief and Disaster Management Abdimahad Abdullahi Qoorgaab told VOA that floods have cut off roads on both sides of the …

MOGADISHU — The European Union today hosted a groundbreaking ceremony to launch the Berbera Beach Development project, part of an EU-funded urban development project launched in 2020. Part of the Beach to be carried out in the coming years by Berbera and UN-Habitat. Seven months will focus mainly on inclusion …

MOGADISHU — Hundreds of people have been displaced & large farmlands of newly sown crops destroyed by floods after a Shabelle river burst its banks in Baarey & Moyko villages near Jowhar officials said, as the Food and Agricultural Organizataion warned rising water levels along the Juba and Shabelle Rivers …

MOGADISHU — The United Nations warns Somalia faces a perilous future as drought followed by torrential rains have destroyed this year’s planting season. Somalia is one of the countries in the world most prone to the erratic and calamitous impacts of climate change. It has been hit by a double …

MOGADISHU — At least 25 people have been killed in the past seven days due to heavy rains pounding several parts of Somalia, the United Nations humanitarian agency said in a statement on Sunday. The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said among the dead include 14 …

MOGADISHU — More than 250,000 people have been displaced in the past two weeks in violence and generalized insecurity in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, and its environs, the United Nations humanitarian agency has said. The displacement took place in Banadir, Berdale and Badweyn, including nearly 200,000 in Mogadishu, in Banadir …

ADDIS ABABA — The African Risk Capacity (ARC), a provider of parametric disaster insurance products to countries and now other entities in Africa, is targeting adding Somalia to its risk pool, signing an MoU with the Government to help it work through the on boarding process. The Government of the …

MOGADISHU — The Turkish Red Crescent on Sunday distributed food packages to the needy across Somalia, an official said. A total of 1,420 food packages, including 420 in KM4 area of Hodan district in the capital Mogadishu, Orhan Kokcu, the organization’s head in the East African country, told Anadolu Agency. Over …