A recent report by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) indicated that at least 4.2 million people in Somalia need urgent life-saving humanitarian support. By July, the number may rise to a staggering 5.4 million people – including 1 million children. We need action now. The …

BORAMA (SoOHA) – Women living in rural areas of Somaliland have been commending the new health services made available under a health programme that has seen the opening of 65 maternal and child health clinics in remote places. Halima DahirIge delivered her baby in December at one of the clinics …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) —  Severe drought in Somalia is putting more than two million people at risk of starvation and forcing thousands out of villages and into a relief camp outside the capital. The United Nations has called for emergency aid to help those in need, including nearly a million Somali children …

 MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Today on Menstrual Hygiene Day, we stand with Somali women and girls and commit towards providing more support towards national health systems, which promote menstrual health and provide treatment to girls and women suffering from menstrual disorders. Poverty and humanitarian crises can limit women’s and girls’ access …

Water they say is life, free of cost like breathing air, but when the commodity becomes all you need to survive, rarely will the thoughts of even good food cross your mind. Not to mention any other basic human needs. Such is the agony of millions of children, women and …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A shortage of vegetables has led to sharp price rises in the markets of the Somali capital Mogadishu, as a consequence of the long drought affecting the bread-basket production areas around the River Shabelle. The River Shabelle provides crucial water for irrigation for the farms in the …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Thousands of students are sitting for final exams afresh today after the previous one was cancelled over what the ministry of education termed as ‘widespread leakage’. The security of the all more than 100 examination centers was heightened to prevent cheating and leakage as previously witnessed. According to …

BURAO (SoOHA) – A single teacher is keeping classes going for 120 children at Gebagebo village school, in an extremely remote hilly area, some 90 km north of the Somaliland town of Burao. Public vehicles venture only once a week up to this village, which is mourning the recent death …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Farmers in a village near Hargeisa have seen their fields of vegetables and other crops washed away by flash floods that came unexpectedly after months of severe drought in much of Somaliland and other parts of Somalia. Ibrahim Aw Isman, the chairman of the local farmers’ association, …

LONDON (SoOHA) – Islamic Relief has launched an urgent humanitarian appeal to help people pushed to the brink by a protracted drought in Somalia. Some 4.5 million people in the most severely affected areas now need critical lifesaving aid. Seasonal Gu rains haven’t produced the rainfall the country hoped for, …