World not delivering quality maternal health care to poorest mothers – UNICEF

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Millions of mothers at risk due to prohibitive health care costs, lack of access to services and skilled professionals, and child marriage NEW YORK/ VANCOUVER,...

Somali politicians must think of Community Engagement beyond Ramadan

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Ramadan is a time of self-reflection, purification, improvement and meaningful engagement between people and communities. It is also a time to organize discussions, debates...

How Somalia’s internal politics fuels obstinacy on boundary row with Kenya

Kenya's President Uhuru Kenyatta (right) with his Somalia counterpart Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed at State House, Nairobi. Behind Kenya-Somalia dispute, analysts say, are economic and political interests of others.
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By AGGREY MUTAMBO When Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo flew to South Africa last week to attend the inauguration of President Cyril Ramaphosa, he avoided...

Somaliland: Regional partnership underway to help Somalia enforce the ban on illegal charcoal trade

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Seven years ago in 2012, a United Nations Security Council Resolution placed an embargo on the export of charcoal from Somalia. The embargo sought...

Kenya, Somalia tiff simmers amid ‘offensive maps’

President Uhuru Kenyatta with Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo, during inauguration ceremony in Mogadishu, on Febraury 22, 2017. [File, Standard]
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A mere promise by Somalia to “revisit” the actions of an international company at the core of maritime dispute between Kenya and Somalia is...

NUSOJ demands the release of Somali journalist arrested over Facebook posts

journalist Ali Aden Mumin arrested in Mogadishu after posting comments on his Facebook account
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PRESS STATEMENT: The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today called for the immediate and unconditional release of a journalist Ali Aden Mumin...

Ethiopia investigating how an erased map of Somalia got published

Ministry spokesperson, Nebiyat Getachew
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Ethiopia seemingly treating publication of the map that shows Somalia as part of Ethiopia as suspicious and has started an investigation into it. The Ministry of...

Three in four children in Puntland face acute food shortages, warns Save the Children

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GAROWE, PUNTLAND 23 May 2019: Just one in four children in Puntland, Somalia, have access to sufficient food, a new assessment by Save the Children...

A welcome verdict for Aisha Ilyas’ family – and a hard prod to push the National Sexual Offences Bill in Somalia

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A Joint Statement by CORD and  SIHA NETWORK This week has been momentous for the justice system of Puntland state with a plausible ruling in the case of Aisha Ilyas where...

NGOs warn of looming hunger in Somalia

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Mogadishu, May 19h, 2019   At least 1.7 million people in Somalia face acute food shortages due to delayed and insufficient seasonal rainfall, humanitarian aid...