Somalia 
Somalia: How a “life-long madness” built Somaliland’s first teaching hospital(0)
Hargeisa–Edna Adan Ismail became interested in health in the 1950s, seeing her doctor father struggle to treat the sick in the then British protectorate of Somaliland. She later became the first Somali woman to be appointed to an international civil service position in 1965 when she joined the UN World Health Organization (WHO) as a [...]
Full Story»Somalia: New taskforce to address AWD in Somaliland
Hargeisa–UN agencies and health authorities in Somalia’s self-declared republic of Somaliland have set up a taskforce to check the spread of acute watery diarrhoea (AWD), which has broken out in several regions, killing several children and infecting hundreds of people.
In a statement on 31 March, Health Minister Ahmed Hassan Ali said members of the taskforce [...]
Somalia: Round-the-clock care saves countless lives in South Galkayo Hospital
Galkayo Somalia–Located in bone-dry central Somalia, the city of Galkayo is divided in half by warring militias and separatist regional governments that continuously clash in armed confrontations. Since Doctors Without Borders/Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) was forced to evacuate its international staff in 2008 due to insecurity, MSF’s Somali staff has carried on the work of [...]
Somalia: Somalis endure violence and lack of access to healthcare
Somalia–In 2009, the Somali population continued to fall victim to indiscriminate violence, while severe drought plagued parts of the country. Millions of people urgently require health care, yet the enormous gap between the needs of Somalis and the humanitarian response on the ground continues to widen. Ongoing abductions and killings of international and Somali aid [...]
