During the Somali Civil Society Summit 2025, the Deputy UN Special Representative UNTMIS , Amb. Raisedon Zenenga, delivered his remarks and conducted a booth-showcasing tour, engaging directly with the civil society organizations exhibiting on the sidelines of the #CSSummit2025

Exhibition at the #CivilSocietySummit2025 reminds us that civil society is not only a driver of advocacy and service delivery: it is also a hub of innovation, cultural energy, and local ingenuity. 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 UNDP Somalia ⁦UNTMIS⁩

Amid the final day of the #CivilSocietySummit2025, our Chairperson of Somali Non-State Actors, Osman Moallim, joined partners including @LionelLaurens_, Resident Representative UNDP Somalia, for a tour of the exhibition spaces. They spent time exploring how Somali CSOs are

“Humanitarian crises in Somalia are no longer one-off emergencies. They are part of a repeating cycle driven by climate change. If we want communities to withstand the next shock, we must move beyond temporary relief and invest in long-term, resilient solutions.” —

The Civil Society Summit 2025 officially concluded today, successfully wrapped up by 𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐚 𝐍𝐨𝐧-𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐀𝐜𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐬 and UNDP Somalia after a productive three-day convening of ideas, collaboration, networking, and dialogue. #CSSummit2025 The summit provided a platform to present and add

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Red Sea paradox: The world’s strongest navies are vulnerable in the world’s narrowest waters.

Under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), littoral/coastal states have defined maritime zones: 1. Territorial Sea (0–12 nautical miles) 2. Contiguous Zone (12–24 nm) 3. Exclusive Economic Zone – EEZ (up to 200 nm) 4. Continental Shelf

The Director General of the Ministry of Interior, Federal Affairs and Reconciliation, Mr. Abdulkadir Elmi Ali, today met with a delegation led by the UNDP Country Representative to Somalia, Mr. Lionel Laurens. The discussions focused on reconciliation, inclusive politics, and

From Exclusion to Identity: UN Development has successfully completed a pilot initiative in Baidoa -- a fast-tracked, cost-effective and scalable legal ID registration model for IDPs. Over 38,000 IDPs registered in one month, showing the potential of scaling up this model to register

From exclusion to identity: In Baidoa, Somalia, UNDP Somalia has successfully piloted an initiative that has enabled over 38,000 internally displaced people to obtain their national ID, achieving an average cost of under US$1 per registration. Learn more: bit.ly/49nf6JV

How #Somalia is using strategic foresight to map local disputes and modernize conflict prevention. In this week’s #SomaliaBlogSeries, UN Development's @AmjadBhatti72 and team unpack Somalia's #ConflictNavigator: undpsom.medium.com/innovating-pea…

How can local governance reform serve as an anti-corruption strategy? The newest post in the #SomaliaBlogSeries by Allan Poston & Mohamed Adow explores this, showcasing the tangible results of the #DowladKaab programme. #Accountability 👇 undpsom.medium.com/how-dowlad-kaa… Ministry of Interior, Federal Affairs & Rec

How #Somalia is preparing a modern, nationally-owned early-warning ecosystem for conflict prevention. In #SomaliaBlogSeries, read UNDP Somalia's Amjad Bhatti and team unpack Somalia's #ConflictNavigator: go.undp.org/5TZ

The Director General of the Ministry of Interior, Federal Affairs, and Reconciliation, Abdulkadir Elmi Ali, held a meeting with the UNDP SRSP project team to review the status of the project, achievements to date, and the 2026 outlook. During the meeting, the Director General

Sir don’t you think that Humayun vs Sher Shah isn’t “hero vs villain” or “native vs foreign”? Timurid Mughal vs Afghan Suri: two rival imperial projects battling over conquered land and people. Same prize: Delhi. Same logic: extraction, control, subjugation. Both Sunni Muslims.

Going through Tuzk-e-Babri, a great memoir indeed, one can smell an Oriental arrogance against the Indian homestead in the voice of a homeless but an ambitious Mughal, who seems to have invoked ‘jihad’ tactics when it came to his campaign against Rana Sanga at Khanwa (1527).

Discussions underscored the importance of alignment with national development frameworks, including the National Transformation Plan, and coherence with the UN Cooperation Framework. The 2026 Annual Work Plan was endorsed and will be submitted to the Programme Steering Committee

After the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the last Mughal emperor Bahadur Shah Zafar was captured by the British and exiled far from Delhi to Rangoon (present-day Yangon, Myanmar). There, the once-powerful “King of Delhi” lived out his final years not in a palace, but under guard in a