News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

PRESS STATEMENT 05/2017 The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) in Somalia, Michael Keating strongly condemned the recent spate of terrorist incidents that have caused carnage among Somali communities. In the past ten days, at least a dozen attacks have been claimed by or…

Emergency Directors today visited Baidoa and Kismaayo to assess the impact of drought on populations in South West and Jubbaland states which are the worst affected throughout Somalia. “There are now over 150,000 people that have newly been displaced in Baidoa because of the drought. We have come…

Humanitarian partners involved in efforts to address the current drought crisis in Somalia, held a meeting Tuesday to discuss ways of strengthening partnerships to better deliver assistance to affected communities. The roundtable meeting organised by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)…

Humanitarian partners involved in efforts to address the current drought crisis in Somalia, held a meeting Tuesday to discuss ways of strengthening partnerships to better deliver assistance to affected communities. The roundtable meeting organised by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC)…

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…

When Somalia's civil war abated Binti Ibrahim Ali returned to Somalia from Kenya where she had grown up as a Somali migrant. Her aim was to help rebuild her country; but the destruction she found was astounding, she admits. “The level of destruction was unbelievable in the wake of the civil war. It…

Hussein Mohamed Qoje, the man behind a new publication causing a major buzz in Mogadishu, says he was driven by the need to bring the business community together. Qoje, the proprietor of Somali Yellow Pages, says it was the realization that people in Somalia were craving for a one-stop publication…

Amino Ali Hiirey is a police officer working in one of the most dangerous countries to police - Somalia. She is among hundreds of police officers contributing to the reconstruction of the country’s law enforcement agencies, following the collapse of the central government and public institutions, at…

Somalia’s international partners welcome the decisions taken by the Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and Federal Member States (FMS) at the recent two-day consultation meeting in Mogadishu. The United Nations, the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM), the Inter-Governmental Authority on…

Baidoa - Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo today visited the capital of South West state to assess the effects of drought on the federal member state that has been hardest hit by the crisis. It marked the first trip of President Farmaajo outside Mogadishu since he took office last February…

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. The campaign is being conducted by the federal ministry of health with support from the World…

Mogadishu - A three-day workshop to discuss the modalities of implementing Somalia’s New Policing Model in HirShabelle state commenced today in Mogadishu. The workshop contributes to the operationalization of a broader agreement known as the National Security Architecture, which was jointly endorsed…