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Federal Jury Convicts Pakistani Weapons Smuggler of Transporting Iranian Advanced Conventional Weapons Destined for the Houthis in Yemen
The U.S. Attorney's Office District of Puerto Rico
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June 5, 2025
A federal jury convicted a Pakistani national today on charges related to smuggling Iranian-made advanced conventional weaponry destined for the Houthis in Yemen and threatening multiple witnesses. According to court records and evidence presented...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Update on COVID-19 in Somalia (11th October 2020)
African Press Organization
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October 12, 2020
Download logo The number of tested COVID-19, 5 last day of Somalia: 3,464 Found: 119 Puntland, Somaliland: 18 Banadir: 2 Male: 83 Female: 37 Healing: 79 Death: 0 General Number Found: 3,864 General healing: 3,089 General Death: 99Distributed by...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Urgent need to scale up mental health services in Somalia
African Press Organization
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October 11, 2020
Download logo On World Mental Health Day this year, the World Health Organization (WHO) in Somalia urged policy-makers, international and national agencies, and other civil society groups to scale up mental health services in Somalia. This request...
IMF Executive Board Completes the First Review of the Extended Credit Facility for Somalia
International Monetary Fund
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November 18, 2020
November 18, 2020 Implementation of the Extended Credit Facility (ECF) supported program is off to a good start despite the challenges posed by COVID-19, flooding and the desert locust infestation. The authorities’ swift response to the triple...
U.S. Travel Restriction on Sierra Leone – Separating Facts from Fictions
EIN Presswire
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June 7, 2025
Travel Restrictions on Sierra Leone: What Facts are Saying FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE, June 8, 2025 /EINPresswire.com/ -- In keeping with his July 2024 campaign promise to restore the travel ban and refugee admission into the United States upon...
Somalia: Maritime Partners Discuss The Future
African Press Organization
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July 26, 2018
Close relationships with key maritime partners are vital to the success of Operation Atalanta. By maintaining close links and sharing expertise, this eases the burden of covering such a large operational area and makes us work more effectively and...
Coronavirus: Somalia marks 6 months of COVID-19
African Press Organization
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September 16, 2020
Download logo Somalia is no stranger to emergencies. For decades, Somalis have passed down to younger generations their rich, vibrant culture, along with mechanisms to cope with all kinds of challenges they have faced over the years. Their...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Update on COVID-19 in Somalia (15th September 2020)
African Press Organization
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September 16, 2020
Download logo Number examined 72 hours last: 385 Found: 14 - Puntland - Male: 11 - Female: 3 - Healing: 21 - Death: 0 - General number found: 3,390 - General Healing: 2,812 - General Death: 98Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of...
Coronavirus - Somalia: As COVID-19 rages on, midwives continue to provide quality care in Somalia
African Press Organization
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September 7, 2020
Download logo Zahra Abdirisak, 24, qualified as a midwife in 2017 from Mogadishu Midwifery School which receives technical and financial support from UNFPA. She has since been playing her role as a midwife; being the primary caregiver for women...
Howgate Publishing Celebrates a Decade of Impactful, Practical, and Contemporary Military Books
GlobeNewswire, Inc.
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June 6, 2025
Portsmouth, United Kingdom, June 06, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- This year, Howgate Publishing celebrates its 10th anniversary. The boutique military publisher has become internationally known for producing some of the most relevant, practical, and...
Coronavirus - Africa: World Bank appoints New Country Director for Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda
African Press Organization
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September 7, 2020
Download logo The World Bank has appointed Mr. Keith Hansen as the new Country Director for Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia, and Uganda effective September 8, 2020. Mr. Hansen, who has over 30 years of experience in development practice, will lead an...
Somalia: United Nations expert urges action to stop children being kidnapped and used as fighters
African Press Organization
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May 7, 2018
The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, has condemned recent terrorist attacks in the country, and called for the immediate release of all children kidnapped or recruited as fighters in the...
Breakaway zone in Africa refuses main port proposal to US
MENAFN
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April 22, 2025
(MENAFN) Somaliland has firmly rejected Somalia’s attempt to grant the US exclusive control over key ports and airbases in the breakaway region, particularly in the coastal city of Berbera. Somaliland, which declared its independence from Somalia...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Training nutrition workers across Somalia to provide life-saving services amid COVID-19
African Press Organization
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August 24, 2020
Download logo Somalia confirmed its first case of coronavirus (COVID-19) in Mogadishu on March 16th, by April 14th online training for over 100 nutrition NGOs working in Somalia had begun. Somalia faces more crises and challenges than most...
Somalia: UN expert urges action to stop children being kidnapped and used as fighters
African Press Organization
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May 4, 2018
The Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Bahame Tom Mukirya Nyanduga, has condemned recent terrorist attacks in the country, and called for the immediate release of all children kidnapped or recruited as fighters in the...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Canada to support UNFPA Somalia on a New Initiative on Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights through Midwifery Education and Practice
African Press Organization
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August 28, 2020
Download logo The Government of Canada has provided CAD$ 11 million to support the Government of Somalia, through UNFPA, on a new initiative on Strengthening Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights through strengthening midwifery education and...
Coronavirus - Somalia: COVID-19 Impact Update
African Press Organization
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August 23, 2020
Situation overview Confirmed daily COVID-19 cases declined during the reporting period. Somalia has confirmed 3,265 with 2,396 recoveries as of 21 August but the number of deaths has remained at 93 for several weeks. Most cases are 20 to 60 years...
Coronavirus: Somalia Post Return Monitoring Snapshot 2020 mid-year monitoring - August 2020
African Press Organization
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August 25, 2020
This post return monitoring snapshot presents selected findings of data from interviews with Somali refugee returnees interviewed in Somalia over the past 30 months. This data set is based on interviews with 1,678 returnee households (HH) across...
Coronavirus: UNHCR Somalia - Operational Update
African Press Organization
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August 25, 2020
Widespread insecurity, political fragility and humanitarian emergencies defined July. While testing for COVID-19 remains limited, Somalia’s confirmed cases since the onset of the pandemic surpassed 3,000, among which more than 90 were fatal....
Coronavirus - Somalia: Sharp Decline in Primary Health Care Visits and Childhood Vaccinations During COVID-19 Pandemic as Infectious Diseases Surge
African Press Organization
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August 25, 2020
Primary health care visits and vaccination coverage have sharply declined in Somalia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic, raising concerns that diseases such as respiratory infections, measles, and acute watery diarrhea (AWD) as well as malnutrition...