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Somalia is clawing back more and more territory from Al-Shabaab. The hard part is to ensure there is strategic "hold-and-build" plan & resources to stabilise recovered areas. The Somali Wire looks at the challenge of winning the peace, imperative for strategic stabilisation.

Viste du at Somalia står midt en sultkatastrofe? Somalias spesialutsending Abdirahman Abdishakur er i Norge

I kveld er både Marian Hussein Ola Elvestuen og Abdirahman Abdishakur , representanter fra Redd Barna og Norges Røde Kors og somalisk sivilsamfunn samlet for å diskutere den pågående tørken i Somalia og mobilisere ressurser.

Asylsøkere får utbetalt så lite penger at mange ikke har råd til å skaffe seg nok mat og varme klær. Det skal ikke være frivillighetens oppgave å sørge for at asylsøkere er varme og mette. Regjeringen og Stortinget må øke stønadene til asylsøkere! #statsbudsjettet

Tonight was the last evening of Kayd Somali Week Festival Thank you so much Ayan Mahamoud MBE Looking so much forward to next year😉💞🌸🙌

& that’s a wrap!!! Over 30 events in 10 days we’ve had so much fun hosting you all! If you’ve missed any events or want to rewatch - do check out our YouTube & Instagram Kayd #swf2022

Grateful to Ifrah Foundation for having given us this opportunity for a conversation- we look forward to further collaboration including on the Dear Daughter Campaign. Africa Swedish MFA Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs Sida

Cars carrying the bodies of #Syrian refugees killed in the earthquake in southern #Turkey to be buried by their relatives in #Idlib

Vi har skrevet om lokalt ledet utvikling i bistanden. Les og kom på seminar da vel!😉 Norad

Det er vanskelig å høre forsvarsminister Gram snakke om holdninger og seksuell trakassering, uten å tenke på at han var en av de seks trønderne på hyttetur hvor ingen (!) av dem sendte trakasserende sms til Navarsete. #nrkdebatt #debatten

wrote my first reported piece for Atlas Obscura on how truck driving is like a traditional somali nomadic lifestyle & how we’re always finding home in the most unlikely places: atlasobscura.com/articles/somal…

Find below the link for the 2023 Somali Studies Conference in Sweden. The theme of the conference is “Diaspora, Development, and Strengthened Social and Political Stability in the Horn of Africa” gu.se/en/event/ssia21

A nurse-midwife who founded both a hospital and university in her home city of Hargeisa, Somaliland, Edna Adan has spent more than 40 years championing women’s health in East Africa, including campaigning for an end to the practice of female genital mut... churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2023/…

- Gjør ditt beste hjemme, på arbeidsplassen, i borettslaget og i idrettslaget. Men vit også dette: Det er ikke din jobb å løse klimakrisen alene. Din viktigste jobb er å kreve mer av dem som bestemmer. bt.no/btmeninger/deb…

Timely article for the humanitarian aid agencies working in SSC. thenewhumanitarian.org/news-feature/2….

In 1988 a brave, conscientious Somali Air Force pilot refused to bomb Hargeisa. Instead, he flew his MiG and crash landed on a beach in Djibouti. Story of Cpt Ahmed M. Hassan has never been told on radio. BBC's history programme Witness tells story. bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3…

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz