A team of 10 Somali police officers from Jubbaland state are being trained by the United Nations Mine Action Service (UNMAS) in Explosive Ordinance Disposal to help boost security in Somalia’s federal states. Officials say this course is timely given the increasing use of improvised explosive d
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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
![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](https://unsom.unmissions.org/sites/default/files/styles/380x220/public/field/image/2017_04_11_humanitarian_coordination_meeting-1_33161102893_o.jpg?itok=1fsAnU5-)
The Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs of the OIC Hesham Yussef, addressing participants at a meeting to scale up humanitarian relief for drought victims in Somalia. Mogadishu April 11, 2017. UN Photo