Two graduates from Jazeera University in Mogadishu have initiated a new method of growing animal fodder to help pastoralists in central Somalia to manage their livestock during periods of drought. The method known as hydroponics is a way of growing crops in water rather than in soil. Hydroponics farming is a …

JOWHAR (SOHA) – A group of young farmers in Jowhar district of Middle Shabelle region is trying to revive the homegrown variety of rice, which had almost fallen out of production in Somalia. Severe drought and water shortages in the last three years, and flooding prior to that, had forced …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The humanitarian situation in Somalia continues to be unpredictable and volatile and is among the most complex and long-standing protracted crisis in the world. It is predicted that at least a third (4.2 million) of Somalia’s (12.3 million) people will require humanitarian and protection services in 2019. …

GAROWE (SOHA) – Severe soil erosion in Balley Valley, on the outskirts of Garowe town in Somalia’s Puntland region, is threatening the livelihoods of livestock farmers as their herds of livestock lack pasture and water. The farmers are blaming unregulated quarrying for rocks in the area. Ahmedweli Hirsi Gelle has …

DADAAB (SOHA) – After four years of hard work in secondary school, Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, a teenage Somali refugee in northern Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, faces an uncertain future as the results of his exams were declared null and void over alleged cheating. Ahmed sat for his Kenya Certificate of …

ADAADO (SOHA) – Residents of a drought-stricken village in Galgaduud region of central Somalia can now access clean, fresh water thanks to the discovery of an aquifer. The aquifer, discovered by a Turkish water drilling agency in Gideys village, is said to contain water reserves to last for many years. …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Mayor of Mogadishu and the governor of Banadir Region honorable Abdirahman Omar Osman (Eng. Yarisow) has said that the internally displaced people`s policy will focus on a process aimed at resettling those internally displaced persons and creating a better life for them that will allow them to …

MOGADISHU(SOHA) – The Federal Government of Somalia and aid agencies operating in the country have today launched the 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP) and called on donors to provide sufficient and early funding to sustain aid operations in Somalia in 2019. The response plan seeks $1.08 billion to provide life-saving …

DHUSAMAREEB (SOHA) – At least 4,000 families in Dhusamareeb in central Somalia are facing acute water shortage after the borehole that has been serving the area for about 30 years collapsed. Drilled in 1986 by the Siad Barre government, the borehole caved in, forcing thousands of families in Gabon village …

BALA’AD(SOHA) – Measles outbreaks in rural parts of two regions of central and southern Somalia are causing concern due to the lack of access to adequate health care facilities in both places. The measles outbreaks in Bala’d in Middle Shabelle region and Dhusamareeb in Galmudug region both began last December. …