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  • UN Envoy for Somalia welcomes release of hostages, calls for all remaining captives to be released.

    news UNSOM, 09 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    Mogadishu, 7 June 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay welcomed the release today of 11 crew members of the ship MV Albedo, held hostage since November 2010, and called for all remaining captives still being held by Somali pirates to be relea...
  • Floods threaten Somalia's refugees

    news Aljazeera, 09 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    Families in Somalia are facing the threat of disease after a camp for internally displaced people was flooded. Food is scarce and medical supplies are running low. Al Jazeera's Tim Friend reports.
  • Statement of USG for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos

    news UNSOM, 09 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    New York, 4 June 2014 - Security Council briefing on the humanitarian situation in Somalia Mr. President, Thank you very much for the opportunity to brief the Council on the humanitarian situation in Somalia. Since the establishment of the Federal Government of Somalia in 2012, optimism over ...
  • UN Envoy for Somalia pledges support, calls on Somalis to unite for progress

    news UNSOM, 09 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    Mogadishu, 3 June 2014 – Speaking at an event to mark the first anniversary since the launch of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Somalia (UNSOM) the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, pledged the UN’s continued support for Somalia and called ...
  • Crew kidnapped by Somali pirates in 2010 free

    news Aljazeera: Agencies, 08 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    Eleven sailors held hostage by Somali pirates for more than three years have arrived safely in Kenya, mediators who helped secure their freedom said. The 11 men - from Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Iran - were crew of the Malaysian-owned cargo vessel MV Albedo, which was hijacked 1,500km of...
  • Scores of migrants drown off Yemeni coast.

    news Aljazeera: AFP, 06 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    At least 60 migrants from Ethiopia and Somalia along with two Yemeni crew members drowned on May 31 in the worst such tragedy off the coast of Yemen this year, the UN has said. "The tragedy is the largest single loss of life of migrants and refugees attempting to reach Yemen via the Red Sea and t...
  • Kenya turns up the heat on Somali refugees.

    news irinnews, 04 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    JOHANNESBURG/NAIROBI, 4 June 2014 (IRIN) - As security forces in Kenya continue to round up and detain thousands of migrants, refugees and asylum seekers, most of them Somali, an agreement between the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) and the Kenyan and Somali governments on the voluntary repatriation of So...
  • Aid agencies access new areas to get a grip on humanitarian needs

    news UNSOM, 03 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    Aid agencies, led by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), travelled to Maaxas in Hiraan Region on 28 May to assess the humanitarian situation on the ground. Maaxas is the fifth of ten newly accessible areas recovered from Al Shabaab control by the Somalia Na...
  • US to name first envoy to Somalia in decades.

    news Aljazeera, 03 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    President Barack Obama is set to announce the first American ambassador to Somalia since the civil war erupted more than 20 years ago, according to a US diplomat. "As a reflection both of our deepening relationship with the country and of our faith that better times are ahead, the president will ...
  • Somalia: Late, erratic rainfall raises concerns about harvest prospects and food security

    news UN Food and Agriculture Organisation, 01 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    2 June 2014, Mogadishu/Rome - Late rains and erratic weather patterns in Somalia have raised concerns over a worsening of the food security situation, as food stocks from the last, poor harvest become depleted and prices continue to rise sharply, a new FAO report says. The situation is being exac...