ERIGAVO (SoOHA) – Hopes of a good harvest of dates after a year-long wait for farmers in a village in northern Somalia’s Sanaag region were dashed last week after a fire spread through their farms reducing everything to ashes. 50-year-old Habib Haji Yusuf was expecting to harvest dates from his …

LASANOD (SoOHA) – Mohamoud Diriye, 25, used to herd his own livestock, but for the time being, he is happy enough being paid to look after somebody else’s camels as he plans a way to rebuild his family’s past life. Mohamoud’s motivation in taking a job as a camel keeper …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Education Minister Abdullahi Barre has cancelled the form four final exams and announced social media shut down at the end of May when a retake will be conducted. Barre made the announcement Monday night as papers set for today- Biology and English were circulating in social media …

The decision to close Kenya’s largest refugee camp – home to almost a quarter of a million people – is raising difficult questions, says Mollie Gerver. Dadaab refugee camp, in eastern Kenya, was established almost 30 years ago. It currently hosts around half of the country’s refugees – 230,000 of …

LONDON (SoOHA) – A record 41.3 million people were uprooted within their own countries last year due to conflicts and violence, data showed on Friday, with two-thirds displaced in just 10 countries including Syria, Colombia and Somalia. The increase in internally displaced people (IDPs) – which was 1 million higher …

JOWHAR (SoOHA) – As part of its ongoing series, Radio Ergo visited a camp for the displaced in Jowhar and found many households headed by children. Some of them are orphans, whilst others have parents incapable of making ends meet without their children working.  The children take on whatever jobs …

MOGAISHU (SoOHA) – The Ministry of Health (MoH) of Somalia has announced 36 new suspected cases of cholera, with no deaths, for epidemiological week 17 (22 to 28 April) in 2019. No cases were reported between epidemiological weeks 1 and 7 due to closure of the main cholera treatment center, …

GENEVA (SoOHA)  – Today is World Red Cross and Red Crescent Day, a time to celebrate the bravery and achievements of our volunteers and staff around the world, whose life-saving and life-changing services ensure that we keep our commitment to humanity every day. One in 65 people in the world is helped …

 PARIS (SoOHA) – Humanity is rapidly destroying the natural world upon which our prosperity — and ultimately our survival — depends, according to a landmark UN assessment of the state of Nature released Monday. Changes wrought by decades of pillaging and poisoning forests, oceans, soil and air threaten society “at …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – Hopes of a good yield to bring a return on his more than $2,500 farm investment have been dashed for Somali farmer Ahmed Hussein Isse, after long periods of drought in his village in Garowe. Ahmed, who is assistant chief of the village of Timir, 78 km …