KISMAYO (SoOHA) – Dozens of families have been fleeing their homes in drought-hit villages in southern Somalia’s Gedo region, as telecommunications network outages have left them unable to buy food and water. Residents in Duya’a-Garon, Geriley, Awsquran, Darasalam, Damaso, Fafahdun, and Khadijo-haji in Elwak district have been facing intermittent network outages, …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The United Nations is warning some two million people in Somalia are at risk of starvation, amid the country’s worst drought since 2011, and is calling for more support from the international community. Speaking at the end of a two-day visit to the country, UN Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock said decades of …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Families from IDP camps in Mogadishu are being treated for free by a group of 10 local medical practitioners, who formed a group to visit people’s homes in IDP camps across the city. Abdulkadir Sheikh Hassan, the chairperson of the volunteers, said they have been treating 200 …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) on Tuesday called on donors to increase emergency humanitarian assistance to help avert further displacements in Somalia. A deadly combination of drought, conflict, and insecurity has forced more than 250,000 people in the first seven months of 2019 to leave their homes, a …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Over a quarter-million Somalis have been displaced largely due to drought and conflict in Somalia in the January-July period of this year, the UN humanitarian agencies said on Tuesday. Most of the conflict-related displacement occurred in Lower Shabelle region where armed operations by Somali security forces backed by …

LAS ANOD(SoOHA) – Abdikani Mohamed Dubba, a recent convert to farming, is delighted to have increased his harvest of vegetables by about five-fold after being exposed to training. Abdikani, who lives Waqdari village south of Lasanod, grows tomatoes, onions, green pepper, red peppers and carrots on his farm irrigated with …

ABUDWAQ (SoOHA) – Five hundred families fleeing severe drought in central Somalia’s northern Galgadud region have arrived in Dabad town, 40 km from Abudwaq, over the past month. The families from Kahandale, Qalanqal and Dha’dher villages left their homes following the failure of the last two rainy seasons. Nuro Osman …

DHOBLEY (SoOHA) – Female soldiers serving in the Kenyan contingent of the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) have launched an initiative to support families affected by drought in southern Somalia. On Friday the troops distributed rice, sugar, beans, biscuits, fruit and other food items to about 150 households. Most …

 HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Nasra Mohamud Omar, 14, an orphan in the Somaliland town of Burao, is feeling thoroughly dejected that her school days have already come to an end at her young age. Having lost both her parents and coming from a poor family, she has completed her primary education …

DHUSAMAREB (SoOHA) – Nadifo Muhyadin Hassan’s family survives on the roughly five litres of water a day that she manages to beg from neighbours. She asks those who can afford to buy water from the commercial tankers visiting their village of Seemere in central Somalia’s Mudug region to spare a …