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Coronavirus - Somalia: COVID-19 supplies from ACF - Somalia
African Press Organization
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May 19, 2020
The Ministry of Health – Somalia received COVID-19 supplies from ACF - Somalia. Dr Abdirizak Yusuf Ahmed, HSS Team Lead of Ministry of Health – Somalia thanked ACF – Somalia Country Director, for this timely support.Distributed by APO Group on...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Update on COVID-19 in Somalia (18 May 2020)
African Press Organization
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May 18, 2020
Download logo New cases confirmed today: 34 Somaliland: 18 Benadir: 14 Hirshabelle: 2 Male: 21 Female: 13 Recovery: 11 Death: 1 Total confirmed cases: 1455 Total recoveries: 163 Total deaths: 57Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of...
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...
Coronavirus - Somalia: COVID-19 Preventive Equipment for Sool and Sanaag region
African Press Organization
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May 17, 2020
Today, Ministry of Health – Somalia dispatched COVID-19 preventive equipment to Sool and Sanaag.Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health & Human Services, Federal Republic of Somalia.
Coronavirus - Somalia: Federal Ministry of Health Somalia Partners with Nomad Innovation Lab for COVID-19 Data Monitoring Dashboard
African Press Organization
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May 16, 2020
Download logo Today, the Federal Ministry of Health Somalia has launched its new webpage with integrated new COVID-19 data-monitoring dashboard. The integrated dashboard will allow the public to get access of the latest updates on the covid-19...
Coronavirus: Somalia faces another desperate situation as COVID-19 cases spiral, IRC calls for increased support to save lives
African Press Organization
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May 6, 2020
Download logo With more than 750 confirmed COVID-19 cases in Somalia, the IRC warns that many cases are going untested and undetected. Somalia has faced decades of violence and cycles of drought and floods, leaving its health care system ill...
Coronavirus - Kenya: 43 cases have recently crossed the border from neighbouring Somalia and Tanzania
African Press Organization
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May 16, 2020
Download logo Among the positive cases that have been registered in the country this week, a total of 43 cases have recently crossed the border from neighbouring Somalia & Tanzania. By yesterday Wajir had 14, Isebania 10, Namanga 16, Lungalunga 2...
Coronavirus - Somalia: WHO and European Union unite to fight a common enemy to humanity
African Press Organization
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May 8, 2020
Download logo The WHO country office and the Delegation of the European Union (EU) to Somalia have joined hands under a new collaboration in the country to strengthen operational response activities for COVID-19. The new collaboration aims to...
Coronavirus - Africa: Dealing with COVID-19 in Somalia and Somaliland amidst an ongoing humanitarian crisis
African Press Organization
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May 13, 2020
Download logo The COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis. Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) is doing all it can to respond in Somalia and Somaliland, as we strive to keep essential life-saving activities running...
Coronavirus - Somalia: WHO supports accelerated response efforts for contact tracing in Somalia as cases surge
African Press Organization
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May 12, 2020
As the laboratory-confirmed cases of COVID-19 surge in Somalia, the country has also intensified its operations response to contain the epidemic. The WHO country office in support of this intensified response operations has deployed over 4000...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Update on COVID-19 in Somalia 11 May 2020
African Press Organization
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May 11, 2020
Download logo New cases confirmed today: 35 Benadir: 24 Puntland: 8 Somaliland: 3 Male: 25 Female: 10 Recovery: 3 Death: 1 Total confirmed cases: 1,089 Total recoveries: 121 Total deaths: 52Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health...
Coronavirus: Somalia's COVID-19 response: a shift to online learning in Somali higher education
African Press Organization
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April 28, 2020
Download logo Nowadays, the much-admired gardens and once-full classrooms at the campus of Plasma University in Mogadishu are empty. Like the rest of Somalia’s higher education institutions, the university – with more than four thousand students...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Update on COVID-19 in Somalia 10 May 2020
African Press Organization
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May 10, 2020
Download logo New cases confirmed today: 57 Benadir: 23 Puntland: 17 Somaliland: 17 Male: 41 Female: 16 Recovery: 8 Death: 3 Total confirmed cases: 1,054 Total recoveries: 118 Total deaths: 51Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of...
Coronavirus - Somalia: UNHCR provides critical assistance to flood victims in Somalia amidst the COVID-19 pandemic
African Press Organization
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May 5, 2020
Download logo The Federal Government of Somalia (FGS) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency have airlifted vital humanitarian assistance to approximately 8,100 Somalis affected by flooding in South-West,Jubaland and Puntland States this past week....
Coronavirus - Somalia: Migrants headed to Arabian Gulf stranded in Somalia as COVID-19 spreads
African Press Organization
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May 9, 2020
Hundreds of migrants are stranded in Bossaso, Puntland, Somalia, as a result of border and sea-crossing closures brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. Every year scores of migrants, mainly from landlocked Ethiopia, pass through Bossaso seeking to...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Early Warning, Alert and Response Network (EWARN) May 2020 - COVID-19 information note 2
African Press Organization
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May 9, 2020
Download logo As disease surveillance in Somalia needs to be scaled up during COVID-19, EWARN rolls out during this difficult time of responding to COVID-19, being ahead of the curve is the only way to stop transmission and limit the spread of the...
Coronavirus - Somalia: 55 New confirmed cases
African Press Organization
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May 8, 2020
07 May 2020: Update on COVID-19 in Somalia. New cases confirmed today: 55 Benadir: 41 Puntland: 13 Hirshabelle: 1 Male: 37 Female: 18 Recovery: 19 Death: 5 Total confirmed cases: 928 Total recoveries: 106 Total deaths: 44 Distributed by APO Group...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Risk of undetected COVID-19 in camps for displaced
African Press Organization
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June 16, 2020
Download logo There have been an estimated 200,000 confirmed cases of Covid-19 across Africa. The World Health Organisation believes the virus is accelerating across the continent, spreading out from densely populated urban areas. Cases have been...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Update on COVID-19 in Somalia 6 May 2020
African Press Organization
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May 7, 2020
New cases confirmed today: 38 Benadir: 35 Somaliland: 3 Male: 30 Female: 8 Recovery: 12 death: 1 Total confirmed cases: 873 Total recoveries: 87 Total deaths: 39Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health & Human Services, Federal...
Coronavirus - Somalia: Update of COVID-19 as of 6th May 2020
African Press Organization
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May 6, 2020
New cases confirmed: 38 Benadir: 35 Somaliland: 3 Male: 30 Female: 8 Recovery: 12 Death: 1 Total confirmed cases: 873 Total recoveries: 87 Total deaths: 39Distributed by APO Group on behalf of Ministry of Health & Human Services, Federal Republic...