PLATFORMS

BALADWEYNE – Thousands are fleeing Baladweyne town after residents of three districts were forced to evacuate and breaches allowed floods to sweep through the town in Somalia’s south. Residents say Shabelle river has been overflowing its defenses over the past few days and high tides merged with the heavy runoff …

DJIBOUTI — The IGAD Climate Prediction and Applications Centre (ICPAC) has warned that new swarms of the desert locust are forming in the Eastern Africa region. The organization says locust swarms have been reported in the last 6-weeks in northwestern Kenya, southern, northern and northeastern Ethiopia, northwest and northeastern Somalia. …

GAROWE — Somalia’s Puntland state has ordered UN and Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs) workers to pay tax or their work licenses revoked crackdown on evasion. Puntland Attorney General Mohamed Hared Farah said his office has up to 140 names of people who are working for different NGOs under the UN but …

MOGADISHU — Two UN agencies on Thursday kicked off the distribution of the more than 1,500 metric tons of life-saving food aid for refugees and asylum seekers in Somalia. The World Food Programme (WFP) and the UNHCR said the distribution has already begun in Mogadishu, Galkayo, and Bosasso, and is …

MOGADISHU — The Multi-Hazard Early Warning Center, which was funded and supported by King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) in collaboration with the World Food Programme (WFP), started its works in the Republic of Somalia. This project aims to strengthen the work of the Somali Ministry of Humanitarian …

BELETWEYNE — The African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) on Tuesday donated non-food items, to help Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) affected by recent floods in Beletweyne district, HirShabelle State of Somalia. The items, which included blankets, basins, mosquito nets and tarpaulins, were donated by Djiboutian and Ethiopian forces serving under …

MOGADISHU — Severe flooding continues to displace thousands of people in Somalia. The government in recent days issued new warnings to communities living along the Jubba and Shabelle rivers. It said rains in the highlands of neighboring Ethiopia could lead to flash floods in towns such as Jowhar and Beledweyne. …

MOGADISHU — The Italian government has approved USD six million to finance flood prevention mechanisms in Somalia Hirshabelle state. The news was confirmed during a meeting between the deputy ambassador of Italy to Somalia Fabio Masimo and the leader of Hirshabelle state Mohamed Abdi Ware in Mogadishu on Saturday. The funds …

MOGADISHU — Uganda Peoples’Defence Forces (UPDF) serving under African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have received medical support donated by “give to the world”, a US organization, in a symbolic handover function at the Sector one headquarters in Mogadishu. The medical items included medicines like; anthelmintic, antifungal, antiallergy, antibiotics (oral), …

MOGADISHU  — The Federal Government has appealed to residents of storms-affected regions in Jubbaland to be vigilant warning the situation is still unpredictable following the death of ten people Friday. The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs while condoling with families of those who lost their lives called for vigilance as storms …