Feature Stories

Photo Story: A week on the road to Sool and Sanaag

Located at the northern tip of the Horn of Africa, Sool and Sanaag are two regions known for their striking landscapes and rich, untapped natural resources.

30 Jul 2022

Catching up on human rights needs in Sool and Sanaag after four years

Ceerigaabo – Located in the remote eastern region of Sanaag, the small city of Ceerigaabo is some 560 kilometres from Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland

22 Jun 2022

Women in Somalia live through pain of displacement and trauma of conflict-related sexual violence

Mogadishu – The horrors of what happened that day still haunt Marian Osman Ali*.

19 Jun 2022

Hosh Jama Farah: "I was determined to better myself through education."

Garowe – Hosh Jama Farah says there is nothing particularly special or different about him.

18 Jun 2022

Dr. Ilyas Abdilatif Sheikh Yusuf: Working as a doctor abroad will not help my people in Somalia

Baidoa – It was December 2009, and Ilyas Abdilatif Sheikh Yusuf was in a fine mood.

02 Jun 2022

A round-up of activities of the UN system in Somalia in May 2022

31 May 2022

Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdullahi: “I have a dream to address the needs of visually impaired persons through education”

Mogadishu - Abdulkadir Mohamed Abdullahi was born in the rural area of the Mudug region, Puntland, in Somalia, in 1992, to a family of pastoralists.

At birth, he had normal vision.

24 Apr 2022

Aweys Haji Nur: Helping Somali boys today become tomorrow’s Somali football stars

Mogadishu – Like so many other boys around the world, when Aweys Haji Nur was young, he dreamed of becoming a professional footballer.

20 Apr 2022

On safer ground: Supporting efforts to make Somalia free of explosive remnants of war

Dhabad and Galdogob – Out of fear, the people of Dhabad and Galdogob, in northern Somalia, barely ventured out to the fields near their homes.

03 Apr 2022

Elections must be finalized amid worsening drought, Security Council hears

Somalia’s leaders must put aside their differences and urgently conclude a credible election process, the UN’s senior official in the country told the Security Council on Tuesday, noting that national elections are now more than a year beh

16 Feb 2022

Pages