Somalia

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Somaliland, Education Cannot Wait and UNICEF launch multi-year programme to provide education to more than 54,000 children affected by crises

Education Cannot Wait allocates $6.7 million in seed funding to launch $64 million three-year education programme for children

13/07/2019

A child walks past buildings that have been destroyed in West Mosul, Iraq.

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World has failed to protect children in conflict in 2018

Widespread violations against children in conflict continue in shocking year-on-year trend

27/12/2018

A child amongst a crowd is given an injection

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Taking the vaccines to children in hard-to-reach communities

Zeila District, Somalia

19/11/2018

Sihaam Said Dahir, 9, is a student at a UNICEF-supported school for children from the IDP (internally displaced persons) camps in Afgooye corridor, Lower Shabelle Region.

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Sihaam’s story

Overcoming loss through education in Somalia

06/11/2018

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Acknowledging bold steps to save Somali children from polio

World Polio Day 2018

24/10/2018

Fatuma Liban (right), a community mobilizer, looking at a polio vaccination campaign poster together with a colleague, with the Dolow camp in the background.

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Meet Fatuma Liban

A community mobilizer in Somalia working in the fight against polio

11/10/2018

Minister Fawzia Abikar Nur at microphone

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Somalia commemorates World Breastfeeding Week 2018

Somalia continues to mark significant gains in exclusive breastfeeding for the first six months

01/08/2018

Mohamed speaks to his classmates as the head of the Child-to-Child Club in his school. KM 13 area, Mogadishu.

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Child-to-child club brings hope in Somalia

for a better future to out-of-school children

07/06/2018

Muna, 6, is vaccinated against measles at the vaccination post in Bay Regional Hospital in Baidoa, Bay Region. She came with three of her sisters, accompanied by their mother.

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Measles vaccination campaign in Somalia

Reaching the most vulnerable children affected by drought

07/06/2018

Community support worker - Zeinab Elmi (Centre in White) GBV coordinator for TASS, a partner of UNICE that does advocacy work around FGM takes part in a community meeting where FGM is being discussed in Shabelle camp for displaced people in Garowe.

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Community discussions point the way forward

Eradicating female genital mutilation (FGM) in Somalia

21/04/2018

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