News (Consolidated) - UNSOM

This is the first attempt by UNSOM to quantify casualties and assess the toll of the conflict on civilians covering the period between 1 January 2016 and 14 October 2017. During this period, ground and air attacks inflicted heavy casualties, caused damage to public and private infrastructure, and…

Mogadishu – Al-Shabaab militants continue to pose the biggest threat to civilians in Somalia, according to a new UN report that was launched in the Somali capital today. The report, which was issued to coincide with the international observance of Human Rights Day, attributes 60 per cent of all…

Mogadishu – Somalia’s electoral authorities today launched a five-year roadmap – known as the Strategic Plan – to guide the management and administration of the country’s 2020-2021 elections, also known as the ‘one-person, one-vote’ elections. “The Strategic Plan will be the baseline for the ongoing…

United Nations staff in Somalia today observed a moment of silence in memory of the UN peacekeepers killed recently in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), with the world body’s flag flown at half-mast in remembrance of the fallen “blue helmets.” Speaking at the event held on UN premises in the…

UNSOM celebrated the closing ceremony of the 16 Days of Activisms and the International Human Rights Day at the Puntland State University (PSU) in Garowe. The event was organized in collaboration with the Ministry of Women Development and Family Affairs (MOWDAFA) and the Puntland Human Rights…

Mogadishu - A group of women federal parliamentarians said they will launch public awareness campaigns aimed at promoting peace and reconciliation in Somalia during a working meeting in Mogadishu yesterday. The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Michael Keating…

Mogadishu - Somali prosecutors from the federal government and federal member states held their first annual conference in Mogadishu this week, and they agreed to establish a Somali Prosecutors Association to strengthen the role that prosecutors play in the country’s justice system and better…

Mogadishu – Hundreds of youth representatives from around Somalia have gathered in the capital city for talks on the future development of young Somalis, who make up more than two thirds of the east African country’s population. A key part of the gathering – the country’s second Somali National…

Mogadishu – What’s a 27-year-old Sri Lankan woman doing in the middle of Somalia’s capital of Mogadishu, a city rebuilding after many years of chaos and civil war? In the case of Jayathma Wickramanayake, she’s doing her job. Ms. Wickramanayake is the United Nations Secretary-General’s Envoy on Youth…

The devolution of authority in Somalia’s federal system took another step forward in the city of Baidoa this week as senior officials of the country’s South West State launched the formation of local councils in the districts of Barawe and Baidoa. At the launch, the Speaker of the South West State…

Mogadishu – The Somali Police Force (SPF) today marked the 74 th anniversary of its founding in a ceremony held at the same location where a suicide bomber killed more than a dozen of the force’s members just six days ago. The bomber, disguised as a policeman, killed the officers at the country’s…

The arresting images of young women and men in white T-shirts and red ribbons tied around their heads clearing debris at the 14 October bomb blast site in Mogadishu was uplifting to victims of the heinous terror attack against innocent civilians. The young women and men who came together under the…