Somalia: Free healthcare offers a lifeline to mothers and children in Mudug region
October 22, 2025When Fatima Abdi Ali, 32, experienced life‑threatening complications in her seventh pregnancy, she and her husband travelled more than 125 kilometres, crossing from Ethiopia to reach Mudug Regional Hospital in Galkayo North. It was the nearest facility equipped for such...
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The Silent Queue in Somalia
October 10, 2025By Retsat Dazang: Mental Health Activity Manager, MSF Somalia The woman didn’t come to talk about her mind. She came because she hadn’t slept in weeks and her chest felt tight, “like a hand sitting here.” In our clinics across...
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Somalia: Funding gaps and barriers to access undermine healthcare for women and children
August 12, 2025When Aisha* began haemorrhaging, experiencing heavy, potentially life-threatening bleeding, just ten days after giving birth to twins at home in Diinsoor district, her family feared the worst. The hospital where she had safely delivered her previous children was no longer...
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MSF’s green initiative brings sustainable healthcare and climate resilience to Somalia
June 3, 2025Galkayo, Somalia- In a transformative step towards sustainability and improved healthcare delivery, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) recently upgraded the solar energy system at Mudug Regional Hospital in Galkayo, Somalia. Launched in October 2024, this ambitious initiative involved expanding and rehabilitating...
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Somalia: The deadly toll of healthcare access challenges for women and children
August 9, 2024Many women and children in Baidoa, Somalia, have to undertake journeys of hundreds of miles to reach medical facilities. To make matters worse, insecurity and violence often lead to delays that exacerbate health conditions and tragically, sometimes even lead to...
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Extreme violence in Las Anod forces MSF to close activities
July 25, 2023Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has reached the difficult decision to withdraw our services from Las Anod General Hospital, Sool region, located within the internationally-recognised borders of Somalia,* due to increased volatility and repeated security incidents which have impacted the safe...
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Why is cholera killing hundreds across the Horn of Africa when it is so preventable?
July 14, 2023Cholera outbreaks are occurring with increasing frequency, and lasting for longer, across Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia. Tetiana Gaviuk, communications manager of the international medical organisation Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) questions in this piece why the death toll from...
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Measles: tackling a deadly endemic disease in Somalia
May 26, 2023As Somalia faces a severe drought and ongoing conflict, children of all ages have become increasingly vulnerable to contracting – and dying from – measles. Although the disease is entirely preventable, measles outbreaks of varying severity have become widespread across...
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SOMALIA: Malnutrition Crisis in Baidoa First-person testimony Dr Asma Aweis
November 18, 2022"We haven't had enough time between one disaster and another." Dr Asma Aweis Abdallah is the medical activity manager with Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) in Baidoa, Somalia. Here she describes the situation the team is responding to. The...
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Dadaab: Agreement on refugee repatriation should not affect aid delivery, says MSF
December 2, 2013Four in five refugees in the camps at Dadaab do not want to return to Somalia given the current climate of insecurity, finds an MSF assessment November 28, 2013: An agreement to begin the voluntary repatriation of Somalis from Kenya...
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MSF shocked and saddened by killing of staff in Somalia
August 21, 2013We will sorely miss Philippe and Kace; their energy, humour and commitment (both are 10 year MSF veterans). Our heartfelt sympathy goes out to their loved ones. MSF still doesn't have all the facts, but we can share further details...
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MSF President: Why MSF decided to leave Somalia
August 21, 2013Our announcement on 14th August that we were closing all our medical programmes in Somalia sent shockwaves through political and humanitarian communities. It came at a moment when world leaders, for the first time in decades, began making positive noises...
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