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Scaling up active surveillance for COVID-19 and training community health workers to contain its spread

Scaling up active surveillance for COVID-19 and training community health workers to contain its spread
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SOMALIA: Election Certain, Now the Focus is Women Seats, Security

Somalia election certain, now the focus is women seats, security

The East African Monday May 31 2021 A protest in Somalia. The country, which faced its worst political crisis in recent years after the failure to hold planned elections in February, will hold elections in 60 days. PHOTO | FILE Advertisement The political agreement signed in Somalia this past heralds not just a new democratic dawn but also one of equity and inclusivity by raising the quota of women in the formal political space to at least a third of the bicameral federal legislature. With a provision for 30 percentage quota, it means Somalia must get at least 115 women into parliament, something it has failed to do in the past, despite having the quota set from 2012. In 2016, 80 women were selected for parliament, making 24 percent of the 329 seats in the combined houses.

Drought, Torrential Rains Devastate Somalia – Puntland Post

By Lisa Schlein GENEVA, SWITZERLAND – The United Nations warns Somalia faces a perilous future as drought followed by torrential rains have destroyed this year’s planting season. Somalia is one of the countries in the world most prone to the erratic and calamitous impacts of climate change.  It has been hit by a double climate disaster for more than two weeks that is likely to worsen its already acute situation of food insecurity. The drought, which was declared on April 25 was soon followed by torrential rains that caused flash floods and rivers to overflow. The U.N. organization for the coordination of humanitarian affairs reports the rains came too late for the planting season.

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