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Dahabshiil Group lauded for role in Drought relief & recovery support

#Dahabshiil Group lauded for role in #Drought relief & recovery support

Dahabshiil Group of firms was lauded for its visible support to drought relief and recovery activities carried out in the span of two years to save over 1,000,000 drought-devastated inhabitants from certain demise since 2016.

At an Iftar ceremony held at the Presidential Palace where the Somaliland National Drought Recovery (formerly ‘Relief’) Committee (SNDRC) returned accounts of revenue and…

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Somaliland: At least 25 people starve to death in eastern regions

#Somaliland: At least 25 people starve to death in eastern regions #SomalilandDroughts

At least 25 people have died in Somaliland’s eastern region Sanaag over the past few days, a Somaliland official said on Tuesday.

According to the Governor of Sanaag, Mohamed Abdi Falay, the devastating drought has killed the victims within the last 48-72 hours. Falay confirmed the deaths to a VOA Somali reporter stationed in the country.

Falay also stated that 80% of the region’s livestock have…

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Somaliland and Somalia drought "extremely worrying," UN aid official warns

#Somaliland and #Somalia #drought "extremely worrying," #UN aid official warns

Humanitarians are racing against time to meet the needs of hundreds of thousands of Somalis who are facing severe drought and water shortages.

Last week the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for the country, Peter de Clercq, explained that a prolonged drought in Puntland and Somaliland, located in the north, has deepened and spread to southern and central regions of the country.

He said aid groups are…

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Somalia/Somaliland: Urgent scale-up of humanitarian assistance needed amid severe drought

#Somalia #Somaliland: Urgent scale-up of humanitarian assistance needed amid severe #drought @UNdeClercq

The Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Peter de Clercq, today made an urgent appeal for humanitarian assistance amid worsening drought conditions that have left hundreds of thousands of Somalis facing severe food and water shortages.

He made the call during a briefing with the international community in Nairobi, highlighting the urgency of responding to the drought situation in Somalia.…

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Somaliland: President Silanyo Calls for Urgent Humanitarian Assistance in Face of Severe Drought

#Somaliland: President #Silanyo Calls for Urgent Humanitarian Assistance in Face of Severe #Drought

The Government of Somaliland is declaring the existence of serious drought conditions in the country. The El Nino phenomenon has had a devastating effect on Somaliland. For the past 2-3 years, the rains were well below average and sporadic in the regions of Sanaag, Sool, Togdheer and Sahil.

According to the most recent seasonal assessment by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU)…

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Somaliland: World Food Program WFP & FSNAU Failed Their Fundamental Purposes Office!

#Somaliland: World Food Program @WFP & #FSNAU Failed Their Fundamental Purposes Office! @WFPSomalia @FAOnews @faoinsomalia

Somaliland Delivered Successfuly Aid To Eastern Regions Of Sanaag & Togdheer Families That Has Been Severely Affected By Drought While World Food Program WFP & FSNAU Failed Their Fundamental Purposes Office!

International Communities and U.N. are pissed because we didn’t asked aid food from them but we organized our selves as a community and collected donations from Somalilamd population, who…

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Somaliland: A schoolmaster saves the day for students affected by drought in Somaliland

#Somaliland: A schoolmaster saves the day for students affected by #drought in Somaliland

In the Horn of Africa, the year-long drought caused by changing El Nino weather patterns hit Somaliland hard as the autonomous state struggled to cope with the death toll as well as the decimation of livestock. Children of pastoralists suffered, and their plight caused one schoolteacher in rural Abdiqadir village to take action.

“We saw these people moving with their children with nothing to…

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Somaliland: Aid worker Sofia Buncy launches fundraising campaign to save lives in drought-stricken Somaliland

#Somaliland: Aid worker #Sofia_Buncy launches fundraising campaign to save lives in drought-stricken Somaliland

Aid worker Sofia Buncy launches fundraising campaign to save lives in drought-stricken Somaliland.

Dedicated Huddersfield woman Sofia Buncy, who works for Muslim Hands, needs £4,000 to build a well in the partially recognised state of Somaliland in eastern Africa, where hundreds of thousands of people are in desperate need of emergency help.

Sofia, who lives in Greenhead, has just returned from…

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