Baidoa - Somalia today launched a measles immunization campaign that seeks to vaccinate 110,000 children under the age of five against the deadly disease in the southern and central regions of the country.
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Binti Ibrahim Ali, Deputy Minister of Human Rights and Family Affairs in the Interim South West Administration.
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A Somali Police Explosive Ordnance Disposal team member puts on protective clothing assisted by colleagues before the start of a training excercise to manually disarm a mock explosive device in Mogadishu, Somalia, on April 13, 2017. UN Photo / Tobin Jones
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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