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Mohamed Ibrahim Hadraawi

Somali Nation Mourns Hadraawi Passing

Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame “Hadraawi”, Somalia’s most revered poet and intellectual, passed away today in Hargeisa. He succumbed at the age of 79 to a long illness that had eaten away at him for some years. Born in Burco in 1943, Mohamed Ibrahim “Hadraawi” moved to Yemen at the age of 10. He studied and spent […]

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Dr. Fawsiya Abikar Nur: Outstanding Somali Person of March

The Kormeeraha magazine team is pleased to nominate Dr. Fawsiya Abikar Nur, Somali Minister of Health and Social Affairs, as the person who made the biggest impact in March through her hard work and positive contribution to Somalia. Her extraordinary work came at a time when the current political crisis is garnering all the attention […]

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Somalia Started Vaccinating Its Population

On Monday, Minister of Health, Dr. Fawsiya Abikar Nur, accompanied by the United Nations Special Representative for Somalia, Mr. James Swan, received the delivery of 30,000 doses at the Aden-Ade airport in Mogadishu. Somalia received the first shipment of 1.2 million doses facilitated through the World Health Organization’s COVAX initiative. The AstraZeneca-Oxford COVID-19 vaccine, produced […]

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President Farmajo Receives COVID-19 Vaccine

The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo receives the Covid-19 vaccine recently delivered by COVAX. He has reaffirmed our strong commitment to the people and the government to save the health and life of our country. The President reiterated his concern that there is a low level of vigilance on the […]

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First Batch Of COVID-19 Vaccine Delivered

The first batch of 300,000 doses of COVID-19 vaccine arrived in Somalia today, FGS Minister of Health Fowziya Abikar Nur, UN Special Representative to Somalia James Swan and other officials witnessed the launch of the vaccine Oxford Astrazeneca. Today was the first phase of WHO’s delivery of 1.2 million doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to […]

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Canadian School Renamed After Hodan Nalayeh

The Vaughan Secondary School was renamed Hodan Nalayeh Secondary School last week after the York Region District School Board trustees voted 10-2 in favour. Hodan Nalayeh was a Somali-Canadian media executive, a community activist, and an entrepreneur who had lost her life in the Asasey Hotel Attack in Kismayo, Somalia, in 2019. Among several other […]

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Former President Ali Mahdi Died From COVID-19 Complications

Ali Mahdi Mohamed, the first interim president after the collapse of the Siyad Barre regime, and the 4th president since the independence has died in a Nairobi hospital today from COVID-19 complications. President Ali Mahdi Mohamed, was born in the village of Addow-uul in the Middle Shabelle region in 1938. President Ali Mahdi went to […]

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Somalia’s COVID-19 Cases On The Rise

The Somali Federal Government’s Ministry of Health said in a daily report on Corona virus data that 117 new cases of COVID-19 have been recorded in the past 24 hours, seven people died and 36 recovered. The Minister of Health and Social Welfare of the Federal Government of Somalia, Ms. Fowzia Abikar Nur, confirmed that […]

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