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The Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs of the OIC Hesham Yussef, addressing participants at a meeting to scale up humanitarian relief for drought victims in Somalia. Mogadishu April 11, 2017. UN Photo
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Humanitarian partners involved in efforts to address the current drought crisis in Somalia, held a meeting Tuesday to discuss ways of strengthening partnerships to better deliver assistance to affected communities. The…
The Interim South West Administration President Sharif Hassan Sheikh Adan, flanked by Emergency Directors, addresses journalists in Baidoa on April 10, 2017. UN Photo
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Emergency Directors today visited Baidoa and Kismaayo to assess the impact of drought on populations in South West and Jubbaland states which are the worst affected throughout Somalia. “There are now over 150,000 people that…
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Hundreds of Somali youth joined the rest of the world in celebrating the International Day of Sport for Development and Peace, in the Somali capital Mogadishu on Thursday. Colorful celebrations organized by the Banadir…
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Hassan Buule Aden, is 40 years old and one of the new arrivals at Al-Adala camp for internally displaced persons seeking a quick response from government and the international community to help mitigate the devastating…
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The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Michael Keating, concluded a two-day visit to Somaliland to assess the impact of the prolonged drought on its population. Mr. Keating held…
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PRESS STATEMENT 04/2017 The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia Michael Keating welcomed the overwhelming vote on Wednesday by the Federal Parliament that approved the cabinet appointed by…
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It took Fatuma Abdi Ahmed four days to hike from Kunturwaareey district in Lower Shabelle region of the South West State of Somalia, to Mogadishu fleeing the ongoing drought which has affected thousands of families in Somalia…
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Nalo Nuura Musdhaf, 26, could not bear the pain of losing one of her children to hunger and had to flee her home in Maayla-Murug, in Lower Shabelle region, before another one died. Ms. Musdhaf is one of the recent arrivals in…
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MICHAEL KEATING SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR SOMALIA BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON SOMALIA AS DELIVERED 23 MARCH 2017 Mr. President, As the Secretary-General said on his first field visit since…
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UNSOM Police Commissioner Christoph Buik and the German Deputy Ambassador to Somalia Markus Bollmohr visited the disputed city of Gaalkacyo on 21 March to assess the implementation of a ceasefire agreement concluded by the…
Volunteers and workers at Baidoa Airport offload medical supplies from an airplane that delivered medical supplies donated by Turkey for internally displaced persons in Baidoa, Somalia, on 22 March 2017. UN Photo
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Truckloads of medical supplies are being sent to villages hard hit by drought in Somalia’s South West after a UN airlift of emergency supplies arrived in Baidoa today. The supplies were donated by the Federal Government of…