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As poll preparations begin, Somali journalists undertake training on elections reporting

Mogadishu – Ahead of Somalia’s elections, the importance of the media’s role in the upcoming electoral process was centre-stage as a group of journalists gathered for an intensive, United Nations-backed training on strengthening their reporting on elections and voter education.

09 Nov 2020

Rallying to vaccinate every child against polio - Community mobilizers inform and prepare communities for vaccinators

Fahima Ahmed Hassan is a 25-year-old community mobilizer who goes the extra mile to ensure parents of children under the age of five are well informed of the polio vaccination campaign and ready to vaccinate their children.

02 Nov 2020

Mohamed Muse Hassan: Scaling up women’s entrepreneurship education in Somalia

Mogadishu – Despite its progress over recent years, Somalia remains a far from easy place for business and commerce, especially for women.

Mohamed Muse Hassan is spearheading efforts to change this.

02 Nov 2020

Amina Abdi Ali: Improving literacy among Somali women

Kismayo – Amina Abdi Ali started an adult literacy programme for women in the southern Somali city of Kismayo in 2016 with high hopes of making a difference in the lives of her fellow Jubalanders. 

15 Oct 2020

Starting in Somalia’s Benadir region, hundreds of thousands of children are immunized against measles and polio

Mogadishu - In Somalia, one in seven children dies before their fifth birthday and, in many cases, these deaths are preventable by use of vaccines.

07 Oct 2020

Shaping peace together: Somali youth as change-makers

Mogadishu – Somalia’s youth need to be change-makers and actively take part in politics, reconciliation, peace-building, elections and ongoing efforts to help develop their countr

23 Sep 2020

Reconciliation in Marka: Foes turned friends recall road to peace

Mogadishu – In early 2012, heavy fighting broke out in the historic coastal city of Marka, in the Lower Shabelle region, located about 90 kilometres south of Somalia’s capital city of Mogadishu.

21 Sep 2020

Somalia’s efforts with youth, peace and security highlighted at special meeting of UN Security Council

Mogadishu – The key role that young Somalis play in helping develop their country came under the spotlight recently at a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council on youth, peace and security.

11 Sep 2020

Interview with the UN Environmental Advisor to Somalia, Christophe Hodder

10 Sep 2020

Mohamed Ali Hassan: A role model for youth seeking a political voice in Somalia’s South West State

Baidoa – Somalia has one the world’s biggest ‘youth bulges’ - that is, around 60 percent of its estimated population of some 15.9 million people is under the age of 30, according to the World Population Prospects, produced by the United Nati

08 Sep 2020

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