It is eight o’clock in the morning. As punctual as ever, Jamila Ali Hassan, 30, opens the creaking door of the Dairy Retail Cooperative in the Melkadida refugee camp, ready to receive the farmers who ...

Through its partnership with SOMWA and Somali authorities, UNESCO pledged to continue supporting freedom of expression and journalist safety - ensuring that women journalists can keep telling the ...

FGM remains a deeply rooted practice among Sudanese and Somali refugees. Though it has gone underground because of legal ...

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) has today launched a new report titled "Targeted Online, Unsafe Offline: Gender-Based Violence and Impunity Against Women Journalists in Somalia", ...

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed (foreground right) meets women leaders in Mogadishu [Photo: UNSOM] MOGADISHU, Somalia - Women from the federal republic of Somalia have been challenged to ...

Women's rights groups, prominent businesswomen and female politicians in Somalia are urging the country's male-dominated parliament to pass a bill reserving 30% of seats for women in next year's ...

ARCHIVE PHOTO: Women walk past a clothes shop in the market of Eastleigh, a suburb in Nairobi predominantly inhabited by Somali immigrants, October 4, 2013. REUTERS/Siegfried Modola As climate ...

* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. Tweet Widget Facebook Like Email Somalia's new cabinet should urgently adopt meaningful reforms to ...

I want to use the occasion of International Women’s Day to heap praise on the contribution of our women both at home and abroad. Somali women have been at the forefront in fight against poverty and ...

GAROWE, Somalia, Jan 11 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Nearly a third of Somalia's parliamentary seats will be reserved for female lawmakers in an election next month, the prime minister said, a ...

UNITED NATIONS, Sept. 28 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy on Tuesday called for efforts to improve political stability and national unity in Somalia in order to boost women's full participation in ...