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The UN Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) closed its operations on 31 October 2024, and was succeeded by the UN Transitional Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNTMIS) as of Friday, 1 November, in line with the UN Security Council’s resolution 2753.

The change reflects the progress in the country and is also in line with the request of the Federal Government of Somalia for a two-year transition of UNSOM’s functions to the United Nations Country Team by October 2026.

While the new UNTMIS website and social media platforms are being finalized, relevant UNTMIS communications will be available here:

UNTMIS’s Facebook account – https://www.facebook.com/UNTMIS

UNTMIS's X account - https://x.com/UNTMIS_

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The Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs of the OIC, H.E. Ambassador Hesham Yussef, giving an opening address at the Humanitarian Coordination Meeting for the Renewed Commitment to Prevent Famine in Somalia in the capital of Mogadishu on April 11, 2017. UN Photo

Organisation of Islamic Cooperation and Muslim Charities Forum meet International partners to scale up relief assistance to victims of drought

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.

11 Apr 2017

Emergency Directors visit Baidoa and Kismaayo to assess humanitarian needs of drought victims

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.

10 Apr 2017

Somalia marks International Day of Sport for Development and Peace

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.

07 Apr 2017

Hassan Aden desperate to stay alive as drought continues to bite

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 drought.

05 Apr 2017

Somalia IDPs appeal for more humanitarian aid to avert hunger

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. She fled with five children, after losing two to hunger.

30 Mar 2017

Nalo Musdhaf remains hopeful in the face of severe drought

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.

29 Mar 2017

UNSOM Police Commissioner visits Gaalkacyo

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 President of Puntland state Abdiweli Mohamed Ali “Gaas” and the then Presi

22 Mar 2017

UN and Somali federal authorities collaborate to airlift doctors and medical supplies to Somalia’s drought-stricken South West state

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.

22 Mar 2017

UN opens regional drought operations coordination centre in Baidoa

The UN has opened a drought operations coordination centre in Baidoa, the administrative capital of South West state, to promote effective and timely delivery of humanitarian assistance in the region.

19 Mar 2017

47 children die from hunger-related diseases in Mogadishu hospital as youngsters bear brunt of drought

Forty-seven children have died from hunger-related ailments in Banaadir Hospital in the Somali capital over the last two months, according to the head of the hospital’s pediatric unit, Dr. Luul Mohamud Mohamed.

09 Mar 2017

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