Somalia

Click a flag to see jobs in that country Job Categories Advanced Search Hello Guest HIV/AIDS Specialist (Health Systems Strengthening NOC FT) Print this job Reference Number: AJS0014087 Job Category: Public Health Preferred Degree: Masters/Advanced Degree Job Type: Regular Full Time Job Country: Somalia Job Location: Hargeisa-Somalia...Read Full Story

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 14, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The UN Independent Expert on the situation of Human Rights in Somalia, Shamsul Bari, today expressed deep shock over a new boat disaster in the Gulf of Aden that claimed the life of at least 11 Somali people while another are still 34 missing. “Smuggling and trafficking in persons in Somalia has been a sad facet of the Somali conflict,” said Mr. Bari, who reported extensively on the plight of Somali boat people in a...Read Full Story

MOGADISHU, Somalia, February 13, 2012/African Press Organization (APO)/ -- The Deputy Special Representative of the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (DSRCC) for Somalia, Honorable Wafula Wamunyinyi met with Honorable Okello Oryem, Minister of State for Foreign and International Affairs of the Republic of Uganda when the minister paid a courtesy call on him. Honorable Wamunyinyi briefed him on the political situation in Somalia and expressed appreciation to the government and people...Read Full Story

Click a flag to see jobs in that country Job Categories Advanced Search Hello Guest Health Officer, Malaria Print this job Reference Number: AJS0014056 Job Category: Public Health Preferred Degree: Bachelors Degree Job Type: FTA-Fixed Term Appointment Job Country: Somalia Job Location: Bosasso-Somalia Number of Jobs: 1 Experience...Read Full Story

Wednesday, 08 February 2012 09:16 The Board of Directors of the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), whose member national shipowners' associations represent all sectors and trades met in London on 6 February. Piracy ICS members reviewed the continuing threat to shipping from Somali pirates in the Indian Ocean. Noting that the capability of Somali pirates is actually higher than it has ever been, ICS believes that effective compliance with Best Management Practices by shipping, and...Read Full Story

Kenya — The United Nations said Friday that conditions in Somalia have improved enough to downgrade the country’s famine, but the world body’s Food and Agricultural Organization warned that continued assistance is needed to stop the region from slipping back. The world body moved the crisis from the top step of a five-point scale – based on the death rate – to the fourth step, formally reducing it from a “famine” to a “humanitarian emergency”. However, the U.N. said that 2.3 million...Read Full Story

Source: Rescued aid worker on way to United States By the CNN Wire Staff updated 10:56 AM EST, Mon January 30, 2012 Jessica Buchanan has been a regional education adviser with the Danish Refugee Council’s mine clearance unit in Somalia. STORY HIGHLIGHTS Jessica Buchanan was to depart Italy on Monday, official says She will return home on a commercial flight Buchanan and a co-worker spent three months in captivity in Somalia (CNN) — A U.S. citizen aid worker — freed in Somalia last week after...Read Full Story

A young American woman is back home safe with her family following a daring rescue in Somalia.   Do You Like this Article? Then Like Us on Facebook.   U.S. Special Forces rescued 32-year-old Jessica Buchanan and 60-year-old Danish aid worker Poul Thisted last week after being kidnapped by Somali pirates in last October. The elite U.S. Navy SEALs parachuted into the hostile East African nation. Then, under the cover of darkness, moved in on the compound housing the hostages. A fire...Read Full Story

This article titled “Somali Islamists ban Red Cross” was written by Clar Ni Chonghaile in Nairobi, for The Guardian on Tuesday 31st January 2012 21.49 UTC Hundreds of thousands of Somalis could be deprived of critical food aid after Islamist rebels banned the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) from areas under their control. The move severes a critical lifeline in the south of the country where famine still threatens 250,000 people. Rebel group al-Shabaab, which professes...Read Full Story

A Christian convert from Islam who fled hostilities in his native Ethiopia has faced attempted murder and ongoing death threats in Kenya.   Do You Like this Article? Then Like Us on Facebook.   Somali Muslim extremists in Kenya kidnapped and tried to kill Barack Hussein Kedir in July 2010, and most recently Kenyan-born Islamic extremists in contact with their co-religionists in Ethiopia sent a death threat to his cell phone on Dec. 3, the Christian told Compass. Since then...Read Full Story