“Now I feel safe”: From fragile shelter to a lasting home in Somalia
August 18th, 2026
For more than three decades, Mako Mohamed Mohamud Hassan lived with the fear that the place she called home could collapse at any time. At 67, she now has a permanent home where she feels safer, can…
Beachfront project a boon to Somaliland’s Sahil region
August 15th, 2023
Berbera residents’ lives lightened with new streetlights
February 17th, 2023
Hargeisa residents get a new water supply
October 26th, 2022
Hargeisa residents benefit from clean water
October 18th, 2022
UN-Habitat trainings on sustainable development planning to serve as benchmark for locally-led sustainable settlement solutions
December 22nd, 2021
Kismayo, Somalia, 22 December 2021 – Building on similar successful steps, UN-Habitat has held training workshops to provide guidance and capacity building on settlement planning so stakeholders can…
UN-Habitat strengthens support to cities facing influx of internally displaced people
September 29th, 2021
Nairobi, 29 September 2021- On the eve of the report by the United Nations Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Internal Displacement, UN-Habitat renews its commitment to furthering the…
Infrastructure Value Chain Analysis in Baidoa Could Help Strengthen Economic Opportunities
September 13th, 2021
Baidoa, Somalia, September 2021 – Policymakers, investors and partners in Somalia’s South West State interim capital City can now benefit from a UN-Habitat study that has identified the construction…
Vulnerable families in Somalia’s Kismayo receive aid to cope with COVID-19
August 30th, 2021
Kismayo, Somalia, August 2021 – As part of a multi-pronged approach to build community resiliency and support recovery efforts, residents of hardest-hit communities in western Kismayo, Jubaland,…
Mobile money transfers support vulnerable families in Somalia’s capital during the pandemic
April 22nd, 2021
Mogadishu, Somalia, 22 April 2021- UN-Habitat is overseeing a cash transfer initiative to more than 1,500 vulnerable families in the Somali capital to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.…
UN-Habitat and SIDA partner in cash transfer initiative to cushion Kismayo residents from the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic
April 14th, 2021
KISMAYO, SOMALIA 13 April 2021 - UN-Habitat has disbursed the first tranche of direct cash transfers of USD 70 each to 250 vulnerable households in Western Kismayo as part of the COVID-19 response…
UN-Habitat in property registration drive aimed at increasing revenue and better service delivery in Baidoa
March 17th, 2021
Baidoa Somali March 2021- Over 21,400 properties were mapped and registered in a recently concluded mapping exercise in Baidoa district through the Joint Programme on Local Governance (JPLG) under UN…
EU and UN-Habitat join forces to improve the response to COVID and other crises in Mogadishu
February 4th, 2021
Mogadishu, 3 February 2021- UN-Habitat today launched a COVID-19 response project in Mogadishu funded by the European Union. The USD 6.964 million (EUR 5.275 million) project will support…
UN-Habitat trained facilitators deliver the Local Leadership Management training to Somalia’s Warsheikh district council
October 8th, 2020
Hirshabelle, Somalia 8 October 2020- Twenty-nine councillors from Warsheikh district successfully completed the Local Leadership Management (LLM) training in Warsheikh, Hirshabelle State of Somalia.…