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08 May 2015
Nairobi/Hargeisa - Two staff members of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization working for the fisheries sector in Somalia, have been killed in car crash in a remote area in the north west of the country. On Wednesday 29 April, the two FAO staff members died in a road traffic accident in...
Nairobi/Hargeisa - Two staff members of the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization working for the fisheries sector in Somalia, have been killed in car crash in a remote area in the north west of the country. On Wednesday 29 April, the two FAO staff members died in a road traffic accident in...
29 April 2015
Long-term sector investment boosts country's trade with Gulf States Somalia in 2014 exported a record 5 million livestock to markets in the Gulf of Arabia thanks to heavy investments in animal disease prevention backed by the European Union and the United Kingdom, FAO said today. This is the highest number of live...
Long-term sector investment boosts country's trade with Gulf States Somalia in 2014 exported a record 5 million livestock to markets in the Gulf of Arabia thanks to heavy investments in animal disease prevention backed by the European Union and the United Kingdom, FAO said today. This is the highest number of live...
29 January 2015
Nearly 203,000 children are acutely malnourished January 29, 2015, Nairobi/Washington – Despite improved food security following the Deyr harvest, improved livestock conditions, and mostly stable staple food prices, a large number of people across Somalia will be acutely food insecure through June 2015. Many children remain acutely malnourished, despite a small...
Nearly 203,000 children are acutely malnourished January 29, 2015, Nairobi/Washington – Despite improved food security following the Deyr harvest, improved livestock conditions, and mostly stable staple food prices, a large number of people across Somalia will be acutely food insecure through June 2015. Many children remain acutely malnourished, despite a small...
31 October 2014
Nairobi/Rome - After a poor rainy season, parts of southern Somalia are now being hit by severe bouts of floods, further aggravating the already alarming food security situation in the Horn of Africa nation, experts at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) have warned. With the devastation of the...
Nairobi/Rome - After a poor rainy season, parts of southern Somalia are now being hit by severe bouts of floods, further aggravating the already alarming food security situation in the Horn of Africa nation, experts at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN (FAO) have warned. With the devastation of the...
02 September 2014
Nairobi/Washington A 20 percent increase since January 2014 The gradual recovery and gains made since the end of the famine in 2012 are being lost as poor rains, conflict, trade disruptions and reduced humanitarian assistance led to a worsening of the food security situation across Somalia. Acute malnutrition increased in many parts of...
Nairobi/Washington A 20 percent increase since January 2014 The gradual recovery and gains made since the end of the famine in 2012 are being lost as poor rains, conflict, trade disruptions and reduced humanitarian assistance led to a worsening of the food security situation across Somalia. Acute malnutrition increased in many parts of...