Humanitarian Affairs

GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU: Four million people will face acute food shortage this year owing to the combined effects of disease and climate shocks, the UN and Somali Government Monday have said as…

By   AFP|TIGRAY: The Ethiopian Red Cross said Wednesday that 80 percent of the country’s conflict-hit Tigray region was cut off from humanitarian assistance and warned tens of thousands could starve…

GOOBJOOG NEWS|BAKOOL:   A plane carrying humanitarian supplies landed in Hudur this morning amid an ongoing crisis that has plunged residents into starvation as the militant group Al-Shabaab maintains a decade-old…

By UNDP Somalia Somalia is no stranger to floods and droughts — or to the crop failure and hunger that they bring. In 2011, more than 250,000 people died of…

By UNDP Somalia  MOGADISHU:  As recently as 2012, Puntland had no women lawyers working in any of its courts. So 60-year-old Safiya Jama Gayre from Puntland’s major city of Garowe decided…

INTERSOS, a UN-funded NGO that provides healthcare and other services to hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia, is pulling out of the country after an investigation uncovered “systematic fraud”…

By  The number of people hit by seasonal flooding in East Africa has increased more than five fold in four years, according to UN figures. Nearly six million people have…

Sub-Saharan loses up to $4 billion annually in food losses owing to inadequate storage facilities and insufficient agro-processing skills. In marking the first-ever International Day of Awareness of Food Loss…

By  Abs, Yemen — The doctors and nurses at the malnutrition ward in Abs Hospital are used to scrambling — there is rarely enough time in the day to see the number of…