HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Lul Hassan Matan has faced hostility, harassment, and detention in her lifelong struggle to help street children in Somaliland. A mother of six, Lul’s mission to provide shelter, love, and care to abandoned and vulnerable children in Hargeisa has earned her the nickname of ‘mother of homeless …

BOSSASO (SoOHA) – As part of an ongoing series on IDP camps in Somalia, Radio Ergo’s local reporter in Bossaso visited a camp where cash assistance is making a big difference to families using it to invest in business and education. Halima Bile Ali is working hard to move her family out of …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Up to one million people in Somalia will receive lifesaving food and clean water to help stop starvation and malnutrition thanks to new UK funding announced today. Minister for Africa Andrew Stephenson has announced that UK aid will provide extra food, water, and medicine to help vulnerable …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The fifth annual Mogadishu Book Fair opens today in Mogadishu bringing together a host of local and international authors, readers and literary enthusiasts from within and outside the country. The three days event which started in 2015 and gradually grew into an annual literary festival in Mogadishu …

NEW YORK (SoOHA) – Every year on World Humanitarian Day, people across the globe rally support for humanitarian aid workers who dedicate their lives to helping the most vulnerable. It marks the day in 2003, when the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, was attacked by terrorists, killing 22 people, including …

BAIDOA (SoOHA) – Qureisha Abdi Ali, a mother of seven, is relieved to be living in her own house in the southern Somali town of Baidoa at last, after facing the trauma of being evicted three times in the last three years. Qureisha and her family are among the 920 …

BAIDOA (SoOHA) – Southwest state president Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen has today received delegates from the World Food Program (WFP) led by the newly appointed country director of the United Nations (WFP) in Somalia, Mr Cesar Arroyo to explore the situation of Southwest Somalia. President Laftagreen accompanied by some of …

GALKAYO (SoOHA) –  Yasmin Abdi Mohamed, a vegetable vendor, has to split her small income between her immediate family and her displaced relatives living in a camp in the northern Somali town of Galkayo.    She sends food every week to her brother and parents in Doha-Mudug camp. But the earnings from her kiosk do not stretch far enough.  “I have …

Somali graduates are proud, inquisitive and, in many cases, innovative. They are certainly ambitious and should be confident about their future in a country blessed with so much natural resources and potential.   Yet, at the best of times, there is a tragic disconnect between the jobs available and the …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – A 14-year old boy, whose parents fled the civil war in southern Somalia two decades ago, has emerged the top student in the just-released Puntland State national examinations. Shueyb Hassan Ali was named top student by the Puntland education ministry after scoring 676 out of a possible …