EU Somalia Unit Press Release: 20 May 2013

Somalilandsun - Today, the European Union has launched the handing over phase of the Sheikh Technical Veterinary School to the Inter-Governmental Authority for Development (IGAD).

By: Yusuf M HasanNew Sheds

Somalilandsun – The Hargeisa livestock market has received a new facelift courtesy of funding from the UKAid and FAO Sustainable Employment & Economic Development-SEED program.

Somalilandsun - Under the UN Joint Programme on Local Governance and Decentralized Service Delivery, UN-Habitat has been implementing the Urban Road Classification and Road Naming in Hargeisa Project, which was initiated as a pilot project to help create a foundation for the development of an urban road network plan for fast-growing Hargeisa.

Hargeisa school for the deafBy: Mo Ali/Medeshi

Somalilandsun - Coca-Cola Foundation and Cultures of Resistance have sponsored S.A.F.E. to build a new school for Hargeisa School of the Deaf.

By: Mo Ali/Medeshi

Somalilandsun - Coca-Cola Foundation and Cultures of Resistance have sponsored S.A.F.E. to build a new school for Hargeisa School of the Deaf.

It is the only school of its kind and it will provide quality education for hundreds of deaf children who would otherwise not have the opportunity to attend school in Somalia.

Trained Midwife Sahra Abdi reviews an ante-natal patient at the Dr Alag Health Centre in BuraoBy: Elizabeth Murekio/Medair

BURAO (Somalilandsun) - It was a joyous day at the Dr Alag Health Centre on March 27. Two mothers experience difficulties deliveries – one with high-blood pressure and another with breach twins – had delivered their babies safely during the night.

Section of the Qatari funded multi-purpose complexBy: Yusuf M Hasan

HARGEISA (Somalilandsun) – A multi-purpose complex funded by the Sheikh Thani bin Abdilahi Foundation for Humanitarian Services of Qatar has been inaugurated in Hargeisa.

Somaliland Nutritional intervention CordinatesBy: Yusuf M Hasan

Somalilandsun – OCHA and FSAU availed map coordinates indicates that the number of running nutrition interventions in the 4th Quarter period of 2012 were 310 in total.

Chris Stanfield during his trek across AfricaA day of fundraising for the hospital will take place at The Yard, Ilkley, this Sunday.

Somalilandsun - An adventurer who trekked 2,000 miles across Africa is continuing his mission to raise money and awareness of a maternity hospital in Somaliland reports Telegraph and Argus.

Christopher Stanfield, of Ilkley, set off from Egypt last September and arrived at the Edna Adan University Hospital, Hargeisa, Somaliland, in January.

Dr Edna (R) attends one of the surgeriesSomalilandsun - The surgery camp at Edna Hospital is in full swing. Dr. Dick Bransford and Dr. Bill Rhodes, assisted by local doctors, have been performing surgery almost nonstop since Saturday morning. By the end of the week they will have assisted over 100 patients from all over Somaliland with issues such as hydrocephalus, clubbed feet, cleft palates and burn contractures.