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Logistics/Procurement Job in Somalia about Health, requiring 0-2 years of experience, from Save the Children; closing on 20 Jan 2021

English Situation Report on Somalia about Agriculture, Contributions, Drought, Epidemic and more; published on 31 Dec 2020 by OCHA

Administration/Finance Job in Somalia, requiring 3-4 years of experience, from CARE; closing on 25 Jan 2021

GOOBJOOG NEWS|MOGADISHU:    ­­­­­The Federal Government is rolling out elections in three Federal Member States allied to Villa Somalia in the backdrop of mixed signals from President Mohamed Farmaajo and unrelenting pressure from opposition for talks, Goobjoog News can authoritatively report. Sources privy to the proceedings at Villa Somalia have indicated that Farmaajo has ordered elections to proceed in South West, Galmudug, HirShabelle and Banaadir and Gedo regions even as a section...

Program/Project Management Job in Somalia about Education, requiring 0-2 years of experience, from Save the Children; closing on 22 Jan 2021

Somalia Humanitarian Bulletin, November 2020 [EN/SO] Format HIGHLIGHTS Cyclone Gati has aggravated the humanitarian situation in Puntland. The cyclone affected nearly 200,000 people, of whom 42,000 were displaced by associated rainfall. Despite an increasing humanitarian caseload, transport access in some parts of the country remains a challenge. FAO warns of a spread of the desert locust infestation to the southern parts of the country as widespread hatching and hopper growth continue. Funding...

But today Somalias once-lawless pirate towns are aiming for a more honest future - as freight ports. Three of the most notorious pirate havens - Hobyo, Eyl and Garacad - are all now earmarked for port construction projects, which will let them cater to the shipping trade they once preyed upon. It is hoped the ports will finally bring prosperity to the so-called "pirate coast", which lies on one of the most remote and impoverished parts of Somalia. "With this project, Somalia will firmly establi...

Somalias pirate coast to develop international ports with foreign money Ports that once preyed on passing shipping earmarked for projects designed to end decades of poverty A pirate on the shore of Hobyo in 2012 Credit: AP A decade ago they were the buccaneering capitals of the 21st century, haunts of modern-day Blackbeards armed with Kalashnikovs rather than cutlasses. Today, Somalias once-lawless pirate towns are aiming for a more honest future - as freight ports. Three of the most notorious ...

COVID-19 isolation area for pregnant and lactating women established in Puntland Format Mariam Muhammad (not real name), 23, from Garowe, Puntland was eight-months pregnant when she started feeling severe flu-like symptoms at the beginning of November 2020. Her situation worsened three days later when she started having a fever. Her husband rushed her to Garowe General Hospital. “I was taken into an isolation centre for pregnant and breastfeeding mothers. The doctors carried tests on me inclu...

By MAX BEARAK | The Washington Post | Published: December 29, 2020 NAIROBI — The United States has invested billions of dollars in Somalia over the past decade, in part to build and train Danab, the only effective, apolitical fighting unit in the countrys war against al-Qaida-affiliated al-Shabab. Now, with hundreds of the U.S. troops who trained them leaving Somalia under orders from the Trump administration, current and former Danab officers are fearful that diminished American supervisio...