JOWHAR(SOHA) – A mass livestock immunisation campaign has begun in Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region targeting over one million goats and sheep. The vaccinations started in 100 villages in Jowhar, Mahaday, Bal’ad, Warsheikh, and Adale amid an outbreak of sheep measles (Cysticercusovis) and sheep and goat pox (SGP). Omar Adan Samatar, …

HERGEISA(SOHA) – Despite excelling academically, Suleiman Mohamed Hassan, 34, has failed to get a job because of negative perceptions by employers about hiring people with disability. Suleiman, who lives in Hargeisa, Somaliland, has two bachelor’s degrees in accounting and information and communications technology (ICT). But he has made 150 job …

WASHINGTON DC(SOHA) – President Trump recently made an excellent move to promote the education of children in developing countries. His administration freed resources already appropriated within the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) to be given to privately run schools. This will allow for a higher population of genuinely …

By Mariaelena Agostini LONDON(SOHA) – Water scarcity affects almost half the world’s population, a number that is expected to rise in the coming decades even as global warming, population growth, urbanisation and rising agricultural needs put further strain on supplies. The issue was on Friday’s agenda in the Polish town …

BAIDOA(SOHA) – Internally displaced families living a precarious life in the southern Somali town of Baidoa have succeeded in purchasing their own plots of land to escape from the constant threat of eviction. The communities in two IDP camps set up a scheme allowing people in the camp to deposit …

BUHODLE(SOHA) – Dozens of patients suffering from mental disorders have been sent home from Buhodle Mental Hospital because their families in the drought-hit region of northern Somalia failed to pay the medical bills. Jama Ahmed Salad took his brother and his nephew to the hospital after they became ill.  They were …

BURHAKABA(SOHA) – The strain of having to walk long distances to fetch water has led to several miscarriages among pregnant women in Burhakaba, southwestern Somalia, where a protracted water shortage has been causing much suffering. With a population of 58,000 families, all five wells in Burhakaba town are producing only …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – A Turkish-based aid agency built an educational complex for orphans in Somalia, according to a statement on Tuesday. The Deniz Feneri Association said the complex — which includes a cafeteria, dormitory, library and masjid — was built in the town of Buuhoodle, north of Somalia, has a …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – A sustained water system was launched on Sunday by Somaliland, the EU and the UN children’s fund (UNICEF) in northern Somalia. According to a joint statement issued in Mogadishu, some 800,000 people will now have sustainable access to safe drinking water thanks to the concerted efforts by …

MUDUG(SOHA) – Some of the pastoralist families worst affected by the recent devastating drought in Somalia’s Mudug region are rebuilding their lives and livelihoods with the gift of some new goats. The re-stocking programme run by CESVI, an Italian NGO, is distributing a total of 300 goats among 60 impoverished …