Somalia Health Financing: Puntland launched a health cost recovery policy aimed at making healthcare funding more sustainable, a move that could affect how families pay for services and how facilities plan budgets. Drought & Malnutrition: UN agencies say severe drought is worsening in Somalia, with hundreds of thousands needing water and food support and acute malnutrition rising among children, while reproductive health and emergency obstetric care remain limited. El Niño Health Threats: An intensifying El Niño is raising the risk of floods, disease outbreaks, and heat stress across East Africa, including Somalia, with fears of contaminated water and higher cholera and acute watery diarrhea risk. Polio Surveillance in the Region: Kenya’s frontline community health volunteers are tracking vaccine-derived polio in remote, mobile areas—an important reminder for Somalia’s own immunization and surveillance gaps. Newborn Care Support: Catholic aid group Trócaire highlights Kangaroo Mother Care at Dollow Hospital in Somalia’s Gedo region, helping mothers manage fragile newborns where incubators and specialist services are scarce. Global Health Risk Factors: A new study links alcohol intake and smoking as top shared risk factors for breast cancer and atrial fibrillation, reinforcing prevention as a major public health lever.