Somalia is located on the east coast of Africa on and north of the Equator and, with Ethiopia, Eritrea, Djibouti, and Kenya, is often referred to as the Horn of Africa. It comprises Italy's former Trust Territory of Somalia and the former British Protectorate of Somaliland. The capital is Mogadishu.
A general term encompassing three types of excision of the external female genitalia - Sunna, clitoridectomy, and infibulation. It is associated with severe health risks and has been declared illegal in many places, but continues to be widely practiced in a number of countries, particularly in Africa.
A plant genus of the family CELASTRACEAE. The leafy stems of khat are chewed by some individuals for stimulating effect. Members contain ((+)-norpseudoephedrine), cathionine, cathedulin, cathinine & cathidine.

Analysis of mtDNA HVRII in several human populations using an immobilised SSO probe hybridisation assay. (1/105)

Several populations were typed for the hypervariable region II (HVRII) of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) control region using immobilised sequence-specific oligonucleotide (SSO) probes. A total of 16 SSO probes was used to type 1081 individuals from eight different ethnic groups (African Americans, Somali, US Europeans, US Hispanics, Bosnians, Finns, Saami and Japanese). Data was compared with already published sequence data by analysis of principal components, genetic distances and analysis of the molecular variance (AMOVA). The analyses performed group the samples in several clusters according to their geographical origins. Most of the variability detected is assigned to differences between individuals and only 7% is assigned to differences among groups of populations within and between geographical regions. Several features are patent in the samples studied: Somali, as a representative East African population, seem to have experienced a detectable amount of Caucasoid maternal influence; different degrees of admixture in the US samples studied are detected; Finns and Saami belong to the European genetic landscape, although Saami present an outlier position attributable to a strong maternal founder effect. The technique used is a rapid and simple method to detect human variation in the mtDNA HVRII in a large number of samples, which might be useful in forensic and population genetic studies.  (+info)

Progress toward poliomyelitis eradication during armed conflict--Somalia and southern Sudan, January 1998-June 1999. (2/105)

In 1988, the Regional Committee of the World Health Organization (WHO) for the Eastern Mediterranean Region adopted a resolution to eliminate poliomyelitis from the region by 2000. Somalia and parts of southern Sudan have persons living in areas where there is ongoing armed conflict and poor infrastructure (e.g., health-care facilities, schools, roads, and power plants). Under these conditions, conducting National Immunization Days (NIDs) and acute flaccid paralysis (AFP) surveillance is difficult. This report summarizes NIDs in Somalia during 1997 and 1998 and in southern Sudan during 1998 and 1999 and establishment of AFP surveillance in northern Somalia and southern Sudan.  (+info)

Helicobacter pylori in immigrants from East Africa. (3/105)

This study determines the prevalence of Helicobacter pylori infection in a group of immigrants from East Africa with dyspepsia symptoms. Costs of treatment (including financial costs, adverse effects of treatment, and complexity of care) are compared for empiric treatment and treatment guided by serologic testing. Of the symptomatic patients, 93% had H. pylori antibodies. Empiric treatment of all patients with dyspepsia could reduce the cost of care by approximately half, with minimal risk to uninfected patients.  (+info)

Tuberculosis diagnosed during pregnancy: a prospective study from London. (4/105)

BACKGROUND: A study was undertaken to characterise the presentation of tuberculosis in pregnancy and the difficulties in diagnosis in an area of the UK with a high incidence of tuberculosis. METHODS: A prospective case series was investigated at Northwick Park Hospital, a university affiliated district general hospital in Brent and Harrow health authority in north-west London which incorporates a regional infectious diseases unit. Patients diagnosed with tuberculosis over the study period were included if the onset of symptoms occurred during pregnancy. RESULTS: Thirteen patients were diagnosed during a 30 month period from December 1995 to May 1998 during which 9069 mothers were delivered, a prevalence of 143.3/100 000 deliveries. Symptoms began at a median of 22 weeks gestation (range 9-40 weeks). All patients were recent immigrants of Indian subcontinent or Somali origin and their median duration of residence in the UK was 31 months (range 1-72). Prevalence broken down for racial origin of mothers was 466.3/100 000 for mothers of black African origin and 239.1/100 000 for mothers of Indian origin. Nine of the 13 patients had extrapulmonary tuberculosis. Four patients with widely disseminated disease had a negative Mantoux response and five with localised disease had a strongly positive Mantoux response. HIV co-infection was absent. The median delay between the onset of symptoms and diagnosis was seven weeks (range 2-30). The response to standard treatment was excellent and all patients were cured. CONCLUSIONS: Tuberculosis occurring in pregnancy is common in recent immigrants. Diagnosis during pregnancy is delayed because the disease is frequently extrapulmonary with few symptoms.  (+info)

Prevalence of serum antibodies against bloodborne and sexually transmitted agents in selected groups in Somalia. (5/105)

Somalia has suffered from a civil war during the last 10 years. In this period the use of whole blood has increased at least twofold in Mogadishu, Somalia compared with pre-war. Screening possibilities are limited. Recent data concerning the prevalence of infections with blood-borne and sexually transmitted agents are not available from this country. To investigate the spread of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV-1/2) and other blood-borne or sexually transmitted agents we tested a total of 256 serum samples collected in the summer of 1995 from blood donors, hospitalized children and adults in Mogadishu. The hepatitis B surface antigen (HbsAg) carrier rate was 191%, 5.6% and 21.3 % among blood donors, hospitalized children and hospitalized adults, respectively. However, no children under 2 years of age were HbsAg positive. The overall presence of antibodies against hepatitis C virus (HCV) was 2.4% (6/256). In blood donors this was 0.6% (1/157). In none of the samples tested, antibodies against HIV 1 and 2 or human T-cell lymphotropic viruses (HTLV I and II) were detected. Our results indicate that, during the civil war in Somalia, no evidence of an increase of HIV infections was found. Our findings indicate that preventive measures in Somalia should focus mainly on prevention of HBV-infections. HBV-vaccine could be administered within the framework of the expanded programme on immunization, as none of the children less than 2 years of age were HbsAg positive.  (+info)

Malaria, intestinal parasites, and schistosomiasis among Barawan Somali refugees resettling to the United States: a strategy to reduce morbidity and decrease the risk of imported infections. (6/105)

In 1997, enhanced health assessments were performed for 390 (10%) of approximately 4,000 Barawan refugees resettling to the United States. Of the refugees who received enhanced assessments, 26 (7%) had malaria parasitemia and 128 (38%) had intestinal parasites, while only 2 (2%) had Schistosoma haematobium eggs in the urine. Mass therapy for malaria (a single oral dose of 25 mg/kg of sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine) was given to all Barawan refugees 1-2 days before resettlement. Refugees >2 years of age and nonpregnant women received a single oral dose of 600 mg albendazole for intestinal parasite therapy. If mass therapy had not been provided, upon arrival in the United States an estimated 280 (7%) refugees would have had malaria infections and 1,500 (38%) would have had intestinal parasites. We conclude that enhanced health assessments provided rapid on-site assessment of parasite prevalence and helped decrease morbidity among Barawan refugees, as well as, the risk of imported infections.  (+info)

A novel hepatitis C virus (HCV) subtype from Somalia and its classification into HCV clade 3. (7/105)

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) sequences from throughout the world have been grouped into six clades, based on recently proposed criteria. Here, the partial sequences and clade assignment are reported for three HCV isolates from chronic hepatitis C patients from Somalia, for whom conventional assays failed to identify the genotype. Phylogenetic analysis of the sequences of the core, envelope 1 and part of the non- structural 5b regions suggests that all three isolates belong to a distinct HCV genetic group, tentatively classified as subtype 3h. This novel HCV subtype shows the highest sequence similarity with HCV isolates from Indonesia. Despite the fact that these patients were infected with HCV clade 3, none of them responded to standard interferon treatment.  (+info)

Risk of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission in a low-incidence country due to immigration from high-incidence areas. (8/105)

Does immigration from a high-prevalence area contribute to an increased risk of tuberculosis in a low-incidence country? The tuberculosis incidence in Somalia is among the highest ever registered. Due to civil war and starvation, nearly half of all Somalis have been forced from their homes, causing significant migration to low-incidence countries. In Denmark, two-thirds of all tuberculosis patients are immigrants, half from Somalia. To determine the magnitude of Mycobacterium tuberculosis transmission between Somalis and Danes, we analyzed DNA fingerprint patterns of isolates collected in Denmark from 1992 to 1999, comprising >97% of all culture-positive patients (n = 3,320). Of these, 763 were Somalian immigrants, 55.2% of whom shared identical DNA fingerprint patterns; 74.9% of these were most likely infected before their arrival in Denmark, 23.3% were most likely infected in Denmark by other Somalis, and 1.8% were most likely infected by Danes. In the same period, only 0.9% of all Danish tuberculosis patients were most likely infected by Somalis. The Somalian immigrants in Denmark could be distributed into 35 different clusters with possible active transmission, of which 18 were retrieved among Somalis in the Netherlands. This indicated the existence of some internationally predominant Somalian strains causing clustering less likely to represent recent transmission. In conclusion, M. tuberculosis transmission among Somalis in Denmark is limited, and transmission between Somalis and Danes is nearly nonexistent. The higher transmission rates between nationalities found in the Netherlands do not apply to the situation in Denmark and not necessarily elsewhere, since many different factors may influence the magnitude of active transmission.  (+info)

I'm sorry for any confusion, but "Somalia" is not a medical term. It is a country located in the Horn of Africa. If you have any questions about medical terms or health-related topics, I would be happy to try and help answer them for you.

Female circumcision, also known as female genital mutilation (FGM), refers to the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injuries to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons. The procedure can cause serious physical and psychological harm, and it is widely recognized by medical organizations as a violation of human rights.

There are several types of FGM, classified into four categories by the World Health Organization:

* Type I: partial or total removal of the clitoris and/or the prepuce (clitoridectomy)
* Type II: partial or total removal of the clitoris and the labia minora, with or without excision of the labia majora (excision)
* Type III: narrowing of the vaginal opening by creating a covering seal, which is formed by cutting and repositioning the labia minora and/or the labia majora, with or without removal of the clitoris (infibulation)
* Type IV: all other harmful procedures to the female genitalia for non-medical purposes, such as pricking, piercing, incising, scraping, and cauterizing the genital area

FGM is practiced in many parts of the world, including Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. It is usually carried out on young girls, often before the age of 15, and it is often motivated by cultural, religious, or social reasons. The practice is illegal in many countries, including the United States, and international organizations have called for its elimination.

'Catha' is a plant species also known as Khat, Kat, or Qat. It contains psychoactive compounds that can cause stimulant-like effects when chewed, brewed into tea, or taken in other forms. The main active compound in Catha is cathinone, which is similar in structure and effects to amphetamines.

The use of Catha can produce feelings of euphoria, increased alertness, and talkativeness, but it can also cause side effects such as increased heart rate, blood pressure, and anxiety. Long-term use of Catha has been associated with a number of health problems, including tooth decay, gastrointestinal issues, and mental health disorders.

It's worth noting that the legal status of Catha varies by country and region. In some places, it is legal and widely used, while in others, it is considered a controlled substance and its use is restricted or prohibited.

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The Human Rights Crisis in Somalia. Statement prepared by Human Rights Watch for the "Arria formula" meeting on Somalia ... The situation in Somalia is one of the worlds starkest and most neglected tragedies. In basic human terms the scope of the ... While Somalia has long been wracked by violence and lawlessness, numerous serious crimes by members of state armed forces and ... This is particularly important now given that Somalia is at a transitional moment. There is an urgent need for the TFG and the ...
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  • Somalia has an estimated population of around 17.1 million, of which over 2 million live in the capital and largest city Mogadishu, and has been described as Africa's most culturally homogeneous country. (wikipedia.org)
  • The same month, the Federal Government of Somalia was formed and a period of reconstruction began in Mogadishu, despite al-Shabaab frequently carrying out attacks there. (wikipedia.org)
  • A report compiled for the Security Council found that Iran is one of seven countries breaking a UN arms embargo by providing weapons to the Islamic radicals who control most of southern Somalia, including the capital, Mogadishu. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • UNICEF has been working in Somalia since 1972 when its first office opened in Mogadishu. (unicef.org)
  • FILE - A soldier walks past rubble in the aftermath of an attack on the Afrik Hotel in Mogadishu, Somalia, Feb. 1, 2021. (voanews.com)
  • The Ethiopian army has crossed into Somalia as tensions build between the transitional Somali government and the Islamic militia that controls Mogadishu. (truthdig.com)
  • The aborted Somalia operation came 20 years after the famous "Black Hawk Down" battle in Mogadishu, in which a mission to capture Somali warlords went wrong when militia forces shot down two US helicopters and killed 18 American soldiers. (yahoo.com)
  • This impromptu refugee camp is the base for ICU fighters who go into Mogadishu, and another group or two that drive around central Somalia, raiding pro-government towns for food, guns, fuel and whatever can be carried away in a pick-up truck. (strategypage.com)
  • In December 2006, Ethiopian forces with US support ousted the coalition of Islamic Courts from Mogadishu and other areas of south-central Somalia in a lightning offensive. (hrw.org)
  • United Nations (CNN) -- Three more regions of Somalia have now been struck by famine, including the capital, Mogadishu, the United Nations announced Wednesday. (cnn.com)
  • Relief efforts in Somalia have been hindered by the ongoing battle between Islamist rebels and Somalia's transitional government, which holds little sway beyond Mogadishu. (cnn.com)
  • A Somali baby is given a polio vaccination in Mogadishu, Somalia,in this file photo. (arabnews.com)
  • JEDDAH: An event was held in Mogadishu on Monday to mark three years since the last detected case of polio in Somalia. (arabnews.com)
  • In a recent visit to Somalia, journalist Jeremy Scahill reported in a July 12 Nation article that he had uncovered a CIA base near Mogadishu airport where victims of renditions from Kenya and Ethiopia are interrogated. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Determinants of maternal near miss events among women admitted to tertiary hospitals in Mogadishu, Somalia: a facility-based case-control study. (bvsalud.org)
  • Therefore, this study was designed to identify determinants of maternal near miss incidents among women hospitalized to tertiary hospitals in Mogadishu, Somalia . (bvsalud.org)
  • He has worked in and on Somalia and the Somali territories of the Horn of Africa for twenty years, in various applied research capacities, including for his PhD research which focused on transnational and diaspora aspects of the Somali. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The official languages of Somalia are Somali and Arabic. (wikipedia.org)
  • Somali presidential spokesman Yusuf Mohamed Ismail said 24 countries - including the United States, Italy, German and Saudi Arabia - have pledged to send relief to Somalia. (foxnews.com)
  • Pentagon officials have described the move, which will see fewer than 500 U.S. special operators working out of Somalia, as a repositioning, noting U.S. troops had been flying into the country to periodically work with the Somali military. (voanews.com)
  • Somali officials have also said they hope a persistent U.S. military presence in Somalia will lead to an uptick in airstrikes against the group. (voanews.com)
  • I am calling on the Somali people to wage a holy war against Ethiopians in Somalia. (truthdig.com)
  • Somali journalist Hassan Kafi Hared was killed on 28 January when a mine exploded on a road in southern Somalia. (pressgazette.co.uk)
  • Hassan, who is believed to be 27 years old, was born in Somalia but spent part of his life in Minnesota, the state where the U.S. government settled thousands of Somali refugees and immigrants in the 1990s. (globalsecurity.org)
  • When Somali militant group al-Shabab pledged recently to go after any foreign troops operating in Somalia, nobody, probably even the militants themselves, expected that it would be the French. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • So far, the Central Bank of Somalia has licensed 13 locally owned commercial banks, among them Salaam Somali Bank and Dahabshil Bank. (zawya.com)
  • Somalia is rich in resources, and tapping them, innovative people need capital and financial injections that large banks can afford," said Abdullahi Nur Guled, a Somali Tanzanian businessman, talking to The EastAfrican on the phone. (zawya.com)
  • The eastern African nation of Somalia is the site of an unfolding humanitarian nightmare ― a massive famine that has cost tens of thousands of Somali lives in the past few months, the United Nations says. (greenleft.org.au)
  • But a hefty portion of what the US allocates for Somalia comes in the form of military assistance, both for the Somali government and the 9000-strong African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) force, composed mainly of troops from Uganda and Burundi. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The oldest evidence of burial customs in the Horn of Africa comes from cemeteries in Somalia dating back to the 4th millennium BCE. (wikipedia.org)
  • Somalia is also home to WFP's largest use of anticipatory action in Africa, helping drought-affected households to prepare for a potential fourth poor rainy season with cash transfers and an information campaign. (wfp.org)
  • The United States has targeted al-Qaida-linked fighters in Somalia, launching its first airstrike since announcing U.S. special operations forces would again be based in the Horn of Africa nation. (voanews.com)
  • So far this year, U.S. Africa Command has publicly confirmed only one airstrike, on February 22, against al-Shabab fighters near Duduble, Somalia. (voanews.com)
  • Fears of war in the Horn of Africa grew sharply yesterday after Ethiopia sent troops into Somalia to "protect" its neighbour's fragile government against an advancing Islamist militia. (truthdig.com)
  • As of 2020, Somalia is placed the second highest in the Fragile States Index. (wikipedia.org)
  • Somalia is suffering the effects of the 2020-2023 drought - its longest on record - compounded by conflict and now, in some areas, flash floods. (wfp.org)
  • Friday's airstrike against al-Shabab is the first since the U.S. announced in mid-May that it would reestablish what it described as a 'small, persistent U.S. military presence' in Somalia, following a December 2020 decision by the previous U.S. administration to pull out troops that had been stationed in the country. (voanews.com)
  • In 2020 there were fifty of these UAV airstrikes and 280 in Somalia in the last decade. (strategypage.com)
  • And in March 2020, Somalia cleared its arrears to the Bank Group, fully reestablishing its regular access to IDA resources for the first time in three decades and paving the way to receive debt relief under both the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative and the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative. (worldbank.org)
  • Sheikh Hassan Dahir, an Islamist leader in Somalia, has called for 'holy war' in response to the involvement of Ethiopian troops. (truthdig.com)
  • Now, as Ethiopian troops withdraw from Somalia and the piracy becomes more subdued, there is hope the issue can be properly investigated and resolved. (theecologist.org)
  • Ethiopia's intervention in Somalia is closely linked to regional security concerns, including a proxy war with Eritrea and the presence of two Ethiopian rebel movements in Somalia. (hrw.org)
  • Hassan says he left Minnesota in August 2008 because of the Ethiopian intervention in Somalia. (globalsecurity.org)
  • In 2019, Somalia had the lowest HDI in the world, and in the same year, 69% of Somalia's population was living below the poverty line. (wikipedia.org)
  • The second Istanbul Conference on Somalia's was a milestone for his country, said Somalia President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed in his speech at the event yesterday. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • During the London Somalia Conference last Thursday, world leaders reached an agreement on seven key areas to put an end to Somalia's precarious situation, including security, piracy, terrorism, humanitarian assistance, local stability, a reinstallment of the political process and international cooperation. (ipsnews.net)
  • Accordingly, it has sent about 2,500 troops into Somalia. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • The compound has now been secured and is in the hands of AU troops, the official Twitter account of the African Union Mission to Somalia said. (cnn.com)
  • approximately 60% of all Army troops sent to Somalia originally were stationed at Fort Drum. (cdc.gov)
  • SOMALILAND, June 17, 2019 - Sirad Suldan has survived one of the worst droughts to hit Somalia in years. (worldbank.org)
  • Somaliland has since controlled the northwestern portion of Somalia, just over 27% of the latter's claimed territory. (wikipedia.org)
  • Through the program, 2.1 million people in rural Somalia helped to build resilience against future drought and famine. (worldbank.org)
  • Daily Mirror special correspondent Tom Parry has spoken of the personal and professional challenges of reporting from famine-stricken Somalia. (pressgazette.co.uk)
  • The United Nations issued a famine declaration for two districts of southern Somalia in June. (cnn.com)
  • In the midst of a famine seizing Somalia, the extremists are choosing to focus on killing, not saving life,' said Lt. Col. Paddy Ankunda, a spokesman for the peacekeeping mission. (cnn.com)
  • WFP, the largest humanitarian agency in Somalia, saves lives by providing food and nutrition assistance to people in crisis. (wfp.org)
  • Somalia has still not recovered from its last humanitarian crisis. (ipsnews.net)
  • For more than twenty years foreign armies have been coming in and going out of Somalia, without any success," Tidhar Wald, Oxfam's EU humanitarian policy advisor told IPS. (ipsnews.net)
  • Military actions in Somalia have never improved the humanitarian situation," he said. (ipsnews.net)
  • Insecurity and inaccessibility are key challenges for humanitarian partners operating in Somalia, particularly in the southern and central zones. (arabnews.com)
  • Antonio Guterres, head of the UN refugee agency, said in July that Somalia was the "worst humanitarian disaster'' on the globe. (greenleft.org.au)
  • The lack of food stockpiling in Somalia reflects badly on the international humanitarian community," Tony Burns, director of operations for Saacid, the oldest NGO in Somalia, told the Guardian . (greenleft.org.au)
  • As I have mentioned before, finalizing the draft Constitution before the May deadline must be a top priority now," wrote the UN special Representative for Somalia, Ambassador Augustine Mahiga in a letter published on Jan 26th. (pravda.ru)
  • It is a time for everyone to pull together to help those suffering and to work towards a better future for all,' Augustine Mahiga, the U.N. special representative for Somalia, said in a letter addressed to Somalis abroad. (cnn.com)
  • The Security Council is due to discuss the 1,500-member African Union mission in Somalia and proposals to turn the mission into a UN force. (hrw.org)
  • Field research in Somalia by Zainab Hassan, a former fellow at the University of Minnesota and Environmental Justice Advocate, has brought to light a whole range of chronic and acute illnesses suffered by Somalis. (theecologist.org)
  • NAIROBI, Kenya - Somalia ( search ) appealed Monday for international aid to victims of the deadly tsunami ( search ) that slammed its shores, with an official saying at least 50,000 people urgently need food, water, shelter and medical help after losing their homes and livelihoods. (foxnews.com)
  • WFP changes lives in Somalia by helping to build sustainable, long-term resilience at community, state and national level against recurrent shocks like drought and flooding. (wfp.org)
  • We are very happy that relief supplies have arrived in Asia, which was hit the hardest by the tragedy, but Somalia - which has been ravaged from a 13-year civil war, drought and political neglect - also needs emergency help to deal with the latest calamity," Yusuf told The Associated Press. (foxnews.com)
  • To help families struck by drought and hunger get back on their feet, the World Bank and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations teamed up with the government of Somalia and other partners for the Somalia Emergency Drought Response and Recovery Project (SEDRP ) , which provided cash and livelihood support to local communities while improving their disaster preparedness. (worldbank.org)
  • Cereal prices in Somalia were 240% higher in May over the previous year, further worsening the dangers posed by drought. (greenleft.org.au)
  • Kenya, Ethiopia and Djibouti extended military assistance to Somalia, Ahmed said, stressing that military and security assistance was important to end terrorism in the country. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • These displaced children are now separated from their families, living in towns and cities across Somalia deprived of parental care, living in insecurity and poverty while parents at home live in fear of Al Shabaab retaliation. (unicef.org)
  • An investigation into the murder of the Italian journalist Ilaria Alpi in Somalia in 1994 quotes the warlord Boqor Musa as saying, 'It is evident those ships carried military equipment for different factions involved in the civil war', and it is widely believed that Alpi was assassinated because she had incontrovertible evidence of the guns-for-waste trade. (theecologist.org)
  • Since early 2017, when AFRICOM increased its use of armed UAVs over Somalia, there have been about 172 UAV airstrikes that have killed nearly a thousand al Shabaab and ISIL (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) members. (strategypage.com)
  • Somalia stopped endemic polio transmission in 2002, but was since twice affected by imports of the virus. (arabnews.com)
  • Recent reforms in Somalia have helped mobilize revenue, improve public finance management, and establish the basic legal foundations for a market economy. (worldbank.org)
  • Iran tried to obtain uranium from Somalia in return for supplying weapons to the anarchic country's Islamist movement, the United Nations said yesterday. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • There were many reasons for withdrawing the peacekeepers and one was that it was very dangerous to be a peacekeeper in Somalia. (strategypage.com)
  • At least 3,500 peacekeepers have been killed in Somalia over the past 16 years. (strategypage.com)
  • The peacekeepers have been in Somalia since 2007 at a cost of over three billion dollars. (strategypage.com)
  • Despite this there was never a problem obtaining peacekeepers for duty in Somalia, paid for by the AU and a long list of African and Western donors. (strategypage.com)
  • About 300,000 men served as peacekeepers in Somalia, receiving an average annual compensation of $9,100 each. (strategypage.com)
  • This was not the case in Somalia, where about three percent of peacekeepers were killed or badly (disabled) wounded. (strategypage.com)
  • While there certainly are domestic factors that keep Somalia divided, nothing has exacerbated the downward spiral to balkanization more than Ethiopia and United States' respective policies toward that nation. (pravda.ru)
  • United States officials have blamed the mass starvation on al-Shabab rebels who control southern Somalia. (greenleft.org.au)
  • National governments and NGOs decried their actions as an affront to international maritime law, but few examined the pirates' claim that a far greater crime continues in Somalia: the illegal dumping of toxic waste. (theecologist.org)
  • The Greenpeace report briefly made the news and was followed up by the European Green Party tabling a question in the European Parliament about 'the dumping of toxic waste from German, French and Italian nuclear power plants and hospitals' in Somalia. (theecologist.org)
  • It doesn't address the cost of human suffering, however, and ignores the fact that the dumping of toxic waste in Somalia continues to this day. (theecologist.org)
  • WFP urgently needs US$332 million for its response in Somalia, to help those people most in need. (wfp.org)
  • Close to 3 million people are displaced across Somalia by armed conflict and natural disasters. (worldbank.org)
  • This reform progress will need to be sustained towards the HIPC Completion Point, with increased focus on delivering tangible benefits to the people of Somalia, especially the most poor and vulnerable. (worldbank.org)
  • On behalf of the United States of America, I congratulate the people and Government of Somalia on your 62nd National Day. (state.gov)
  • The absence of cases of polio in Somalia today is testament to the leadership, commitment and hard work of the government and people of Somalia, and the effective support and collaboration of many partners," Fikri said. (arabnews.com)
  • The BBC said on August 6 that roughly 640,000 children are acutely malnourished in Somalia, and 3.2 million people need immediate life-saving assistance. (greenleft.org.au)
  • All this breaches a UN embargo placed on Somalia. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • Ethiopia's Building Blocks or Frag-D-Frag approach (fragmenting the fragmented) offers military trainings and weapons to any and all political actors on the ground, despite the UN weapons embargo on Somalia (92). (pravda.ru)
  • Since the collapse of the military government 21 years ago, Somalia went through various levels of problems perpetuated by clan militias, warlords, economic-lords, religious-lords, regional-lords, and a group that I would refer to as the Ghost-lords . (pravda.ru)
  • When Somalia slipped into civil war in 1992, the waste exporters had to negotiate with local clan warlords, who demanded guns and ammunition to allow the dumping to continue. (theecologist.org)
  • U.S. military personnel were first deployed to Somalia in late December 1992 as part of Operation Restore Hope. (cdc.gov)
  • In 2013, the Multi-Partner Fund for Somalia was established with donor countries to facilitate coordinated financing for the country's sustainable reconstruction and development. (worldbank.org)
  • Ironically, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) that theoretically represents Somalia in the United Nations and is recognized by all international institutions is placed in a political straitjacket that practically handicapped its decision-making authority. (pravda.ru)
  • Despite this, insurgents still control much of central and southern Somalia, and wield influence in government-controlled areas, with the town of Jilib acting as the insurgents' de facto capital. (wikipedia.org)
  • The federal government of Somalia recognized as crime the dissemination of terrorist messages and encouraging their acts of brutality - by any media or person on social media. (voanews.com)
  • Pirates were recently seen with a female hostage "in a notorious pirate den hundreds of miles inside Somalia," according to the Times, which did not publish the name of the town at the request of the British government. (thedailybeast.com)
  • The biggest achievement of the Bank has been to walk slowly, side-by-side, shoulder to shoulder, with the government, through a process of reform," notes Kristina Svensson, the Country Manager for Somalia. (worldbank.org)
  • Sources inside Somalia, including those of NYT reporter Jeffrey Gettleman (who has written about Somalia for FP ) suggest that the kidnappers were renegade soldiers from the government forces the French agents were supposed to be working with. (foreignpolicy.com)
  • But, when the Supreme Revolutionary Council (SRC) overthrew the civilian government in October 1969, all foreign banks in Somalia were nationalised under an order of the SRC on May 7, 1970. (zawya.com)
  • A Pentagon spokesman confirmed that US military personnel had been involved in a counter-terrorism operation against a known al Shabaab terrorist in Somalia, but did not provide details. (yahoo.com)
  • The vaccine scheduler table summarizes the current vaccination schedule for young children, adolescents, and adults in Somalia. (who.int)
  • The last twenty years have seen numerous military interventions in Somalia," Aydris Daar, CEO of the Wajir South Development Association (WASDA) in Juba, Somalia, told IPS. (ipsnews.net)
  • We thank our donors and urge the international community to continue to support efforts to keep Somalia polio-free, and other much-needed health interventions in the country. (arabnews.com)
  • But he said Somalia needed economic stability to cut youth unemployment. (yahoo.com)
  • The United States supports your efforts to build resilient communities, foster inclusive economic growth, and increase security for Somalia and its neighbors. (state.gov)
  • The CRP in Somalia is the newest of all of the CRP country programme and, as such, is building its foundations rather than building on previous work. (lse.ac.uk)
  • Dr Nisar Majid manages the Somalia country programme. (lse.ac.uk)
  • In 2018, the Bank Group's Board of Executive Directors endorsed a four-year Country Partnership Framework for Somalia-the first development strategy for the country since the early 1990s. (worldbank.org)
  • The polio program in Somalia has fought hard to raise population immunity levels (against polio) across the country, and to improve surveillance system sensitivity to pick up traces of the disease," said Fikri. (arabnews.com)
  • US special forces have aborted a mission to capture an al Shabaab leader in Somalia after coming under heavy attack. (yahoo.com)
  • He praised the 17,000-strong African peacekeeping force in Somalia for improving security and fighting al Shabaab, who he said were now weakened. (yahoo.com)
  • Somalis living abroad use it to send money to their relatives back home as there are no other banking systems in Somalia since the downfall of the Siad Barre regime in 1991. (bbc.co.uk)
  • Note that, last year, some 7,000 Somalis died in the religious, clan and crime based violence, compared to Afghanistan, where 6,000 died (in a nation with four times the population of southern Somalia). (strategypage.com)
  • The Group of Friends of Children Affected by Armed Conflict (CAAC) of Somalia express deep concern that data from the Secretary General's annual reports on CAAC shows that Somalia is now the most dangerous conflict on the planet for children. (unicef.org)
  • Aggregated data of all parties to the conflict shows that Somalia has the highest number of abducted children (6,553), highest number of child survivors of rape and other forms of sexual violence (1,606) and second highest number of child recruitment and use cases (9,533). (unicef.org)
  • Somalia has the 5th highest number of children who have been killed or maimed in conflict (4,883). (unicef.org)
  • All parties to the conflict to implement, enforce and strengthen existing action plans and command orders to end grave child rights violations in Somalia. (unicef.org)
  • Salman has over five years' experience in the private sector in Somalia. (lse.ac.uk)
  • For years the AU played down the high casualty rates in Somalia, reporting less than a third of the actual deaths. (strategypage.com)
  • The CRP Somalia team has convened a small group of researchers, some of whom currently work for the CRP on specific assignments, and others who have been collaborating informally. (lse.ac.uk)
  • The Group of Friends of CAAC insists that child rights must be brought to the forefront of international efforts to achieve lasting peace in Somalia. (unicef.org)
  • We, the undersigned, endorse and support this statement as the CAAC Group of Friends of Somalia. (unicef.org)
  • A former U.S. resident arrested in Somalia has confirmed he belonged to militant group al-Shabab but is denying alleged links to Islamic State. (globalsecurity.org)
  • Human Rights Watch urged the UN Security Council during its current deliberations on Somalia to include a strong civilian protection mandate in any peacekeeping mission. (hrw.org)
  • Saving Somalia from the current tragedy and founding a habitable state is the common will of conference participants, Ahmed said. (hurriyetdailynews.com)
  • Senior U.S. administration officials last month called the decision by former President Donald Trump to end the persistent U.S. presence in Somalia a mistake, arguing it gave al-Shabab, already seen as the largest, wealthiest and most dangerous al-Qaida affiliate, a chance to regenerate. (voanews.com)
  • In return, Hizbollah dispatched five advisers to Somalia to provide advanced military training. (telegraph.co.uk)
  • For many governments involved in Somalia, military action is seen as a means of providing security and stability, but reports from inside tell a different story. (ipsnews.net)
  • In addition, through late June, malaria was diagnosed in 83 military personnel following their return from Somalia. (cdc.gov)
  • This report summarizes the occurrence of malaria in returning personnel and underscores for health-care providers the importance of considering malaria in the diagnostic evaluation of military personnel returning from Somalia and in other persons who have traveled to malarious areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Editorial Note: Most U.S. military personnel who developed malaria in Somalia or after their return to the United States had been stationed in the southern riverine area of Somalia, where malaria transmission is intense and is characterized by seasonal exacerbations from May through August and during November and December. (cdc.gov)
  • A new provisional constitution was passed in August 2012, reforming Somalia as a federation. (wikipedia.org)