Maulid Warfa from UNICEF Somalia reflects on the huge amount achieved for the country's children since last July. But the battle is not over yet, he warns.
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This month, a Save the Children and Oxfam report was published with a stark and timely message for us all about the need to act quickly when a humanitarian disaster looms. Highlighting the difficulties faced by humanitarian aid agencies like UNICEF when responding to the Horn of Africa food crisis, the report, A Dangerous Delay, stresses how important it is for governments and donors to respond swiftly when the early warning signs for emergencies appear.
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Today we met one of the most important men working to coordinate getting our lifesaving supplies and out to vulnerable children in Somalia. Maulid Warfa is UNICEF’s Emergency Specialist. Of Ethiopian origin, he has an insatiable energy and passion...
Nimco and her three children lived in Baidoa District in southwestern Somalia until June of this year. Then, last month, having borrowed some money from relatives, they travelled by car to Galkayo, approximately 900 km away. The journey took them 15 days...
GALKAYO, SOMALIA – We leave the UNICEF compound in Galkayo on Saturday to travel to Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) camps in this area. Most of the roads are dirt and gravel tracks, and the very few concrete roads are filled with pot holes, making...
Right now over 550,000 children in Somalia are malnourished because they don’t have enough food to eat, and if they get any, it’s not nutritionally balanced. This deteriorating situation is alarming and will impact millions of children long...
We have just arrived in Nairobi, Kenya and are on our way to the UNICEF Somalia office to meet Lars, the Senior Security Officer who will brief us for our trip. Lars is the kind of guy you’d want around when you're in serious trouble – the...
Hi, my name's Jessica Mony, and I work as the International Project Liaison for UNICEF UK. I'm currently in Somalia with Kate Vigurs, who also works for UNICEF at our London office. (That's us in the little profile picture above, with Kate on the left...
A Somali child waits with others to register for aid in the Ifo refugee camp in North Eastern Province, near the Kenya-Somalia border. © UNICEF/NYHQ2011-1005/Holt UNICEF writer Michael Klaus reports back from the refugee camps in Kenya. DADAAB, KENYA...