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Baidoa – Muhiyadin Husni’s life story reads like a profile in courage that has unfolded against the backdrop of Somalia’s turbulent history in recent years.
Internally displaced women and children at a World Food Programne centre in Mogadishu, Somalia. Credit: Giles Clarke for UNOCHA
Last year, extraordinary prevention efforts by donors, the Government of Somalia and humanitarian partners helped stave off a famine.
When we met Leila Ali Abdullahi, she was busy guiding the sketching efforts of three young art students in a studio filled with draft paintings, color palettes and pencils.
The Deputy Constitutional Minister of the Federal Government of Somalia, Hussein Abdi Elmi, speaks at the signing ceremony of the political agreement on Justice and Corrections System for Somalia in Jowhar, on 24 January 2018. UN Photo
Jowhar - A new agreement seeking to streamline the justice and corrections systems in Somalia has been endorsed by the country’s Federal Government and Federal Member States.
The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representatives are constantly on the go.
Mogadishu – Once, in the 1960s and 70s, it was known as the “Pearl of the Indian Ocean.” That was before decades of armed conflict and instability drove visitors away from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, leaving a once-thriving tourism a distant memory.
In a country which has only recently started making renewed headway against patriarchal traditions, 23-year-old Hamdi Mohamed Ali is passionate about education for girls and women’s rights.
Law enforcement was not a feasible career option for most Somali women when Nura Jama Ali was growing up in the 1970s.
The arresting images of young women and men in white T-shirts and red ribbons tied around their heads clearing debris at the 14 October bomb blast site in Mogadishu was uplifting to victims of the heinous terror attack against innocent civilians.
Mogadishu – The Somali Police Force (SPF) today marked the 74th anniversary of its founding in a ceremony held at the same location where a suicide bomber killed more than a dozen of the force’s members just six days ago.