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Somalia joined the rest of the world to mark International Women’s Day. The day was commemorated across the country, with Mogadishu, Baidoa, Kismayo and Puntland registering a huge turnout.
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Shipra Bose (left), the Gender Advisor from UNSOM, moderates a panel discussion during celebrations to mark International Women's Day in Mogadishu, Somalia
Residents of Baidoa at celebrations to mark the International Women's Day in Baidoa, Somalia on March 8, 2016
Somalia's Prime Minister, Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke lays a foundation stone for the new Mogadishu Police and Court Complex on February 18, 2016.
Peter de Clercq, the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General for Somalia, and resident Humanitarian Coordinator pins a service medal on a member of the UN Police staff.
Participants at a consultative workshop on the role of the Boundaries and Federalism Commission in federalism process held in Mogadishu, Somalia on February 09, 2016.
Walter Kälin, Special Advisor to the Deputy Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General on Internally Displaced Persons chats with local IDP women selling vegetables at Hanaana One camp during his visit to Baidoa, Somalia on February 09, 2016.
Patrick Loots, the Head of Disarmament, Demobilization and Reintegration from UNSOM, the Interim Jubba Administration Minister for Interior, Mohamed Warsame Darwish, and officials from the Germany embassy in Somalia at the site where the centre for disengaged combatants in Kismayo, Somalia will be built.
