MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Forty-five children suffering from acute malnutrition are being treated in Banadir Hospital after being brought from IDP camps in the Somali capital Mogadishu. Dr Aweys Olow Hassan, a pediatrician at Banadir hospital, said the children are mostly under five and in poor condition. “The children are from …

Ahead of the onset of Gu’season in parts of Somalia, Jubbaland state has embarked on rehabilitation of Jubba river banks to avert flooding as witnessed last year. Radio Ergo’s reporter in Kismayo, Ahmed Abdi Toronto, asked Jubbaland deputy minister for agriculture, Mahdi Muhyadin Mohamed, what measures the government was putting in …

CAIRO (SoOHA) – Arab states are facing a water supply emergency they need to coordinate an urgent response to, with per capita resources expected to fall by 50 percent by 2050, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday. The Middle East and North Africa have suffered more …

LASANOD (SoOHA) – Some 300 pastoralist families living in Kulal village, 200 km away from Lasanod town in the northern Somali region of Sool, are relieved to have their only source of water flowing again, thanks to the quick response of an NGO to a Radio Ergo broadcast. Radio Ergo’s …

NAIROBI (SoOHA) – Around 10.7 million people are currently food insecure across Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Karamoja region in Uganda. Although the food insecure population is lower than numbers observed during the drought of 2017 (15.3 million people), there is a high risk of a worsening situation due to forecasted …

LASANOD (SoOHA) – A village in northern Somalia’s Sool region has banned the use and sale of plastic bags, imposing penalties for offenders. The local administration of Bo’ame village, around 70 km east of Lasanod, announced a ban on plastic bags on 5 March, according to assistant chief area, Ahmed …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Qatar Charity (QC) signed a cooperation and partnership agreement with the Ministry of Health and Social Care, the Federal Republic of Somalia. The pact, signed at the Ministry headquarters in Mogadishu, came as part of Qatar Charity’s keenness to coordinate and co-operate with all its government partners …

BAIDOA (SoOHA) – Over 4,000 families displaced by drought have arrived in Baidoa town since the beginning of the year. The families, who were pastoralists and farmers, fled from Ufurow, Gof-gadud Shebelow, Hawen, Idale, Misir, Buray, Gof-gadud Burey, Mora-gabay, El-garas villages in districts bordering the South West state capital, Baidoa. …

DADAAB (SoOHA) – A team of young women and men living in Dadaab town in northeastern Kenya have set up a brick-making business that has started to take off.  Having struggled to earn a living, and coming from pastoralist backgrounds, they are now supporting their families and dreaming of expanding …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) released a combined US$45.7 million today to scale up life-saving assistance in Somalia, where over 4.2 million people need urgent humanitarian assistance this year, including 900,000 acutely malnourished children. “These allocations will enable …