The ongoing cholera outbreak in Somalia started in December 2017.

Source: Situation Report for Cholera, Ministry of Health, Somali Federal Republic Figure 1. Number of confirmed and suspected cholera cases in Somalia reported from February 2017 through February 2018 The ongoing cholera outbreak in Somalia started in December 2017. As of 18 March 2018, a total of 1613 cholera cases, including nine deaths (case fatality

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Agriculture Remains Key to Somalia’s Economic Growth and Poverty Reduction

The World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization  released on March 28 a new joint report titled, Rebuilding Resilient and Sustainable Agriculture in Somalia, outlining the challenges and opportunities for Somalia’s agriculture sector. According to the findings of the report, over the past three decades, Somalia’s livestock and crop subsectors have been buffeted by

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Somalia, Kenyan foreign ministers discusses on borders

Nairobi – – Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation Mr. Ahmed Issa Awad meets with Kenyan foreign minister Mrs . Monica Juma. meeting discussed bilateral relations and a number of issues in the region and the world, especially in conditions of the construction of the wall being built between Mandera and Beled Hawo and

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Sudan, Qatar Sing $4 billion deal to develop Suakin Seaport

Sudan and Qatar on Monday signed a $4-billion agreement to develop the former Ottoman port city of Suakin in northeastern Sudan. “The agreement was signed in line with instructions of the leadership in both countries on the necessity to boost joint cooperation in the fields of transport and communications,” Sudanese Transport Minister Makkawi Awad told

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Somalia, Kenyan Presidents Discuss a border dispute

The governor of Gedo region Mr. Mohamed Mahmoud Mohamed has talked about the situation in Somalia between the two countries in the conflict-ravaged country. The chairman said that a special meeting between the delegations of the two countries and discussed solutions achieve this and to implement the terms agreed upon by the President of Kenya,

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Somalia asked for UN action against UAE base in Berbera

Somalia has urged the United Nations Security Council to take action against the construction of a United Arab Emirates military base in Somaliland. Speaking at the Security Council on Tuesday, Mr Abukar Osman, Somalia’s ambassador to the UN, said the agreement between Somaliland and the UAE to establish the base in the port city of

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South Africa, Hermanus protests: More than 100 Somali spaza shops torched

About 120 Somali-owned small businesses have been torched in Zwelihle, Hermanus, in violence associated with community protests, a group of Somali shop owners said on Tuesday. “I ran with my children and my wife,” said one man who did not want to be named or photographed. “They burnt my shop, my house, and they turned

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President Mohamed receives credentials from the new Mauritinian Ambassador to Somalia

Mogadishu-President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdulahi Mohamed on Tuesday received credentials from the new Ambassador from the Islamic Republic of Mauritania,H.E. Wadad Walid Sayid who was appointed to represent his country here in Mogadishu-Somalia, The Ambassador conveyed a message from the President of the Republic of Mauritania, Mr. Muhammad Wald Abdul-Aziz

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State Minister for foreign affairs is looking for thorny files with the UAE Ambassador.

Mogadishu -The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation of the Somali Government . Mr. Abdulkadir Ahmed Kheir Abdi, today welcomed the ambassador of the United Arab Emirates Mr. Mohammed Ahmed Othman Al Hammadi. During the meeting there discussed several issues including the agreement illegal between the government and the company, DP World with the

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Angola charges son of ex-president dos Santos with fraud

The son of Angola’s ex-president, José Filomeno dos Santos, has been charged with fraud relating to a $500 million transaction out of an account belonging to the central bank, the prosecutor general’s office said on Monday. Dos Santos is the highest profile figure to be charged since President Joao Lourenco succeeded former leader Jose Eduardo

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