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ATMIS urges police to enhance vigilance to bring peace to Somalia

Xinhua 23 Mar 2023

"We are here to bring peace to Somalia. We are also here to ensure Somali Police officers can stand on their own and execute their duties effectively," she noted in a statement issued in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia ... ATMIS urges police to enhance vigilance to bring peace to Somalia.

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Inside Somalia's hidden world of sex work

Yahoo Daily News 23 Mar 2023

Mogadishu's Lido Beach is a thriving part of the capital's life, but nearby there is a hidden side. Two women in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, have been talking to the BBC about how they got drawn into the underground world of sex work in a city living under the threat of violence following years of civil war.

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Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year

NewstalkZB 21 Mar 2023

NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) — A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid Somalia’s longest drought on record last year and half of them likely were children under 5 years old ... The hardest-hit populations are in Bay and Bakool in southwest Somalia and displaced people who have fled to the capital, Mogadishu.

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World can still avoid worst of climate collapse: IPCC

Taipei Times 21 Mar 2023

People in September last year arrive at a displacement camp amid a drought on the outskirts of Dollow, Somalia. During a conference in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa on Monday, leaders of African countries hit hard by climate change discussed finance options that would allow ...

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UN says some 43,000 deaths may have occurred in Somalia in 2022 due to drought

Xinhua 20 Mar 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO), UNICEF, and the Ministry of Health and Human Services of Somalia said in a joint report released in Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia, that half of the drought-related deaths occurred among children under the age of five ... UN says some 43,000 deaths may have occurred in Somalia in 2022 due to drought.

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Somalia drought claimed as many as 43,000 lives last year

Victoria Advocate 20 Mar 2023

Rains in Somalia — one of ... While a military offensive has freed a large swathe of territory from the al-Qaida-linked group’s control over recent months, it still has strongholds in central and southern Somalia and maintains a presence just 10 miles outside the capital, Mogadishu.

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Somalia drought may have killed 43,000 in 2022, half under 5: UN

Al Jazeera 20 Mar 2023

Somalia’s ongoing record drought may have killed as many as 43,000 people last ... “These results present a grim picture of the devastation brought on children and their families by the drought,” UNICEF’s Wafaa Saeed said as he presented the report in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu.

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Somalia's drought killed 43,000 last year, half under five - study

Reuters 20 Mar 2023

"These results present a grim picture of the devastation brought on children and their families by the drought," Wafaa Saeed, the United Nations children's agency representative said while presenting the report in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.

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Somalia’s drought killed 43,000 last year, half under five – study

FX Empire 20 Mar 2023

NAIROBI (Reuters) – Somalia’s ongoing ... “These results present a grim picture of the devastation brought on children and their families by the drought,” Wafaa Saeed, the United Nations children’s agency representative said while presenting the report in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.

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Somali bank acquires 62.5 pct stake in Kenyan bank

China.dot.org 17 Mar 2023

"The acquisition will strengthen the trade and investment ties between Kenya and Somalia," the CBK said in a statement issued in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya.

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IOM says climate change fueling displacement in Horn of Africa

China.dot.org 15 Mar 2023

Over two million people have been internally displaced in Djibouti, Ethiopia and Somalia amid a prolonged dry spell, IOM said in a statement issued in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, citing statistics from humanitarian agencies.

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The growth of Africa’s towns and small cities is transforming the continent

Economist 09 Mar 2023

Ruiru, home to 400,000 on the fringes of Nairobi, Kenya’s capital, is the sixth-fastest-growing city in Africa ... Hargeisa, the capital of Somaliland, an autonomous territory that wants to become an independent country, has a sophisticated property tax that allows the region to make up for a lack of funding from Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital.

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Military court in Somalia executes 13 men by firing squad

Anadolu Agency 08 Mar 2023

Thirteen people from the terrorist group al-Shabaab and ISIS/Daesh were executed by firing squad in Somalia’s northeastern semiautonomous state of Puntland on Wednesday ... local time (0500GMT) in the cities of Galkayo, Garowe and the state’s commercial capital of Bosaso, simultaneously.

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US court convicts two men in 2012 journalist kidnapping in Somalia

Arab News 08 Mar 2023

Two men have been found guilty of cooperating with the pirates who abducted reporter Michael Scott Moore in Somalia, US prosecutors said on Tuesday ... 21, 2012, in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles northeast of the capital of Mogadishu, and held hostage for about 30 months.

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US citizen, Somali convicted in journalist's hostage-taking

Chatanooga Times Free Press 08 Mar 2023

Michael Scott Moore, a German-American journalist, was abducted in January 2012 in Galkayo, Somalia, 400 miles (643.7 kilometers) northeast of the capital of Mogadishu ... In a 2018 book Moore wrote about his captivity, he said that Tahlil got in touch with him from Somalia by ...