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A Somali Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal team member puts on protective clothing assisted by colleagues before the start of a training excercise to manually disarm a mock explosive device in Mogadishu, Somalia, on April 13, 2017. UN Photo / Tobin Jones

A team of 10 Somali police officers from Jubbaland state are being trained by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Explosive Ordinance Disposal to help boost security in Somalia’s federal states. Officials say…

PRESS STATEMENT 05/2017 The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Somalia, Michael Keating strongly condemned the recent spate of terrorist incidents that have caused carnage among Somali communities…
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

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 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

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

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…

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…