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14 December 2011
For the last two decades, the Sheikhal and Makabul conflict has persisted causing loss of lives as well as properties. The Sheikhal are from the...
Lessons learnt during the PEACE II PLA (Participatory Learning and Action) at the Somalia cluster revealed lack of youth participation in decision making activities in...
Lessons learnt during a PEACE II Participatory Planning and Action (PLA) exercise revealed that a number of youth were involved in drug and substance abuse....
22 September 2010
The Mayor of Mogadishu was so inspired by the USAID supported street clearance, that the administration will now fund lighting for Mogadishu streets. USAID’s TIS...
20 September 2011
USAID revitalizes the Via Moscow in Mogadishu: USAID’s Transition Initiatives for Stabilization (TIS) and the Benadir administration cleared sand and removed debris from the...
16 September 2011
Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) is a peanut-based food product used in emergency situations to rehabilitate severely malnourished people. The demand for RUTF by humanitarian organizations...
19 September 2011
USAID and Mercy Corps have granted a new Land Cruiser Ambulance to the Somaliland Ministry of Health, to be used to support the Mother and...
17 March 2009
In April, 2008, 19 Somali journalists graduated from a 12-week, Kenya Institute of Mass Communications (KIMC) workshop supported by USAID/EA. The training was designed to...
10 March 2009
While the security situation in Somalia remains precarious, the National Democratic Institute (NDI), with support from USAID/East Africa, is working with Somali leaders to strengthen the...
25 February 2009
U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agriculture Service and USAID Regional Economic Growth & Integration (REGI) office are working in partnership with the African Union-Interafrican Bureau...
10 January 2008
The United States Embassy in Nairobi invites you to join Ambassador John Yates, special Envoy for Somalia, in a webchat on January 17, 2008 at...
1 November 2007 | Nairobi, Kenya
The Enhanced Livelihoods in the Mandera Triangle (ELMT) Activity , part of USAID/EA’s broader Regional Enhanced Livelihoods in Pastoral Areas ( RELPA ) program,...
3 May 2012
28 February 2012 | Mogadishu , Somalia Today Minister Abdisamad Maalim Mohamud of the Somalia Ministry of Interior and...
28 February 2012 | Mogadishu , Somalia
Today the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) of Somalia and the United States Government celebrated an expansion of their partnership for stabilization in Mogadishu. This joint...
4 October 2011
Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton has asked USAID Administrator Raj Shah to visit Ethiopia and Kenya to discuss key agricultural and food security issues...
15 August 2011
U.S. Food and Agriculture Ambassadors Visit Kenya to Assess International Humanitarian Efforts to Assist Somali Refugees and Drought-Affected Kenyans NAIROBI,...
8 August 2011
THE WHITE HOUSE Office of the Vice President Dr. Jill Biden has arrived in Kenya with Senator Bill Frist, USAID Administrator Raj...
20 July 2011
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 19, 2011 Press Office: 202-712-4320 Public Information: 202-712-4810 Email: http://www.usaid.gov/ NAIROBI, KENYA - The...
1 July 2011
In response to the unfolding drought in the Horn of Africa, the U. S. Government, through the USAID Office of Food for Peace, has signed...
7 July 2011 | Washington, D.C.
USAID Responding to Crisis in the Horn of Africa
7 June 2011 | HARGEISA, Somaliland
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s Partnership for Economic Growth was launched today in Hargeisa. The Partnership is working with Somalis to improve the environment...
30 November 2010
The U.S. Agency for International Development’s East Africa Regional Mission, with the Education Development Center, have begun a two-day meeting in Djibouti focused on practical...
Somalia’s primary enrollment rate is only 28% and only 37% of students are female. USAID is helping to rehabilitate classrooms and construct new classrooms and has helped out of school children in Somaliland, Puntlan dand south central Somalia enroll in school. USAID has also helped to strengthen Community Education Committees.
USAID has provided youth with vocational training, many of whom have secured employment opportunities in part through Info Match, an internet/cellphone system where unemployed youth and employees with vacancies find each other.
USAID has promoted an integrated education and health approach and has improved sanitation and hygiene among teachers and students through the development of improved water sanitation and hygiene facilities including the construction or rehabilitation of latrines, hand wash facilities and water tanks.
USAID improved the capacity of the Transitional Federal Government, Somaliland and Puntland authorities through trainings in project management, accounting and information technology. USAID also supported the TFG’s development of a Constitution culminating in the first draft Constitution for Somalia in July 2010.
USAID/Somalia works through a variety of partners including United Nations organizations, international non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and other international and local NGOs.
Launch of ANNECA - a new Handbook on Paediatric AIDS in Africa
Photo: USAID/EA
Another scene of food distribution in Dadaab Refugee Camp that is supported by the American People.
Photo: World Food Program
As drought intensifies in the Horn of Africa, new arrivals to the Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya collect food supplies provided by the American People.
Digital devices used in promoting financial literacy among youth in Somalia.
Movie style poster advertisements are displayed in Somalia to promote financial literacy among youth.
A Somali youth using a mobile device for the financial literacy soap opera.
Young boys enjoy fresh water from a new USAID‐constructed borehole in Hargeisa, Somaliland.
Photo: USAID/Somalia
In 2010 USAID helped rehabilitate more than 3,000 classrooms in Somalia and constructed 24 new learning centers.
Photo: IRI
Citizens waiting in line to cast their vote during Somaliland presidential elections held peacefully on June 26, 2010.
Poll workers counting ballots with party agents present during Somaliland presidential elections held on June 26, 2010.
Somali children read from the USAID -supported Somalia Reader Series.
Somali youth in the English Language Practice Group at the Livelihood Resource Center.
Photo: Pact, Inc.
The Peace II Coordinator for the Somali Cluster Project and the facilitator of the workshop during the opening of the training.
Participants draw up action plans for their respective corridors during the peace leadership training.
Diff maternity ward: Peace dividend projects like the Diff Maternity Ward on the Somalia/Kenya border provide incentive for cross-border communities to prevent and resolve conflicts.
Photo: National Democratic Institute
Somali women MPs discuss the Rules of Procedure of the Women’s Caucus (SOWPA), before its formal establishment.
A group photo of participants and guests from the donor community after the signing of the Declaration for Establishment of the Somali Women’s Parliamentary Association (SOWPA).
Twenty Somali Women Beat Odds and Graduate from College.
Photo: Artist: Michele Shortley
A book cover in English and Somali languages. In War-Torn Somalia, Children’s Books Provide Outlets for Creative Provide Outlets for Creative Thinking.
Photo: Education Development Center (EDC)
The Somali Reader Series in action. In War-Torn Somalia, Children’s Books Provide Outlets for Creative Provide Outlets for Creative Thinking.
Photo: Mercy Corps
The water flows again for a Somaliland Community!
Photo: Pact Inc.
Scene from a workshop on promoting peace through African female leadership.
Scene from a workshop on promoting peace through African female Leadership.
Above: A rejuvenated Biyo Dhacay Primary School
Above: The old school in a decrepit state
USAID funded Hammar Jab Jab school in Mogadishu, Somalia.
Photo: U.S. Embassy, Kenya
Mission Directors (front row center) from USAID Ethiopia, East Africa and Kenya with participants from Women’s Regional gathering.
Photo: WFP – Peter Smerdon
WFP food distribution in El Berde, Bakool region, Somalia.
Photo: Janet Bland
Somali journalists with Cheryl Anderson, USAID/EA Mission Director, and Maura Barry, Somalia Program Manager, at the April 2008 graduation ceremony. USAID's Civil Society and Media in Transition program provided training for 19 Somali fellowship students at the prestigious Kenya Institute of Mass Communications.
Somali journalists with representatives from USAID/EA, CARE and KIMC at the April 2008 graduation ceremony. USAID's Civil Society and Media in Transition program provided training for 19 Somali fellowship students at the prestigious Kenya Institute of Mass Communications.
Through its Civil Society and Media in Transition program, USAID provided training to 19 Somali fellowship students, including ten women, at the Kenya Institute of Mass Communications.
Somalis at a Gender Training session in Burao. USAID provides assistance to help increase the participation of women in political processes.
Photo: EDC
Having fled with their families from the fighting in Mogadishu, children attend classes under trees, benefitting from USAID supported interactive radio programs.
Children at IDP camps southwest of Mogadishu take part in interactive radio instruction implemented by EDC and supported by USAID.
Adults and youth in Burtinle, in the Puntland State of Somalia, learn to read, write and calculate through USAID-sponsored radio programs.
Students participate in EDC's USAID-funded Somalia Interactive Radio Instruction Program. The distance learning tool uses songs, drama and games to engage both students and teachers in the classroom while improving the quality of learning.
Photo: WFP
Bags of food are offloaded on the beach in Somalia. Since September 2007 the U.S. government has provided over $53 million in food aid to the people of Somalia.
Photo: CARE
Women journalists participate in a USAID-sponsored media training workshop in Mogadishu. USAID, working with its implementing partners, has helped to train 487 journalists in advocating for peace and good governance.
Photo: FFP
Food For Peace beneficiaries line up for food assistance. In Somalia, USG humanitarian assistance is provided through UN agencies and NGOs.
Children wait for food distribution in Mogadishu, Somalia. Households in many parts of Somalia are now extremely food insecure.
Ambassador Ranneberger with the team from Development Alternatives Incorporated (DAI).
Participants gather at the Practical Peace Conference in October. USAID works to promote durable peace and security among cross-border pastoralist communities in the Horn of Africa.
Ambassador Ranneberger and H.E. Ali Abdullah Osoble, Minister of Planning and Statistics, speak at the signing of the $3.9 million Social Service Delivery agreement.
Ambassador Michael Ranneberger, UNICEF Representatives and Ministers from the Somalia Transitional Federal Government witness the signing of a $3.9 million agreement to support social service delivery in southern Somalia.
Pastoralists from Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia sell their livestock at the regional Peace Market in Mandera.
Pastoralists from Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia buy and sell livestock at the Peace Market in Mandera, Kenya. Community-based committees at the market help to resolve conflict disputes.
Women share a friendly conversation at the Peace Market in Mandera, Kenya. Part of the Cross-Border Peace Initiative, the market was established to help develop practical problem-solving partnerships between cross-border communities from Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Photo: DAI
Somali/Kenya Peace Dialogues held in El Wak, Somalia help lay the foundation for building trust and relationships.
A Senior Advisor meets with the Livestock Management Committee. USAID initiatives established the committee to help ensure equal access to the livestock market in the cross-border area of Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia.
Peace Co-ordinators follow the elder's discussions on peace in Mandera (Kenya) and Gedo (Somalia).
Returnees to El Wak, Somalia following the Peace Agreement. USAID initiatives are helping to build trust between communities in the region.
Photo: USAID
When schools are closed due to fighting in Mogadishu, Njamu is able to make progress in reading, math, and life skills thanks to USAID-sponsored distance learning on the radio.
Capital Mogadishu
Population 10,112,453
Area 637,657 km2
Last updated9 May 2012
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