Horn of Africa

The United Nations Support Office in Somalia (UNSOS) has handed over medical equipment to a health facility operated by the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) in Mogadishu. The health facility located within the AMISOM Halane Base…

MOGADISHU, Somalia – At least 90 people were killed and 147 injured on Saturday in a truck bomb explosion in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. It is one of deadliest attacks in the capital after a truck loaded with explosive detonated at…

MOGADISHU, Somalia – The European Commission is providing an additional €3 million in emergency aid after heavy flooding put the lives of many vulnerable people at risk in Somalia. The EU says funding would be provided through…

MOGADISHU, Somalia – At least ten people have been killed and scores went missing when a small boat carrying 30 people overturned in the flood-waters in central Somalia. A rescue operation has been ongoing since Monday after the boat…

MOGADISHU, Somalia – At least four people have gone missing when a boat carrying over a dozen capsized in the flood-waters in Baladweyne town, some 330km north of the Somali capital, Mogadishu. The floods caused by heavy rains on the…

Flooding linked to heavy rainfall along Somalia’s two major rivers, the Shabelle and the Juba, has affected thousands of people. By 21 October the floods had displaced 72,000 from Belet Weyne town, one of the worst-affected areas. OCHA…

MOGADISHU – Somali Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire has met with Kenyan delegation led by Ababu Namwamba, Kenya's chief administrative secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the capital, Mogadishu. Mr. Namwamba arrived in the…