Food Security Cluster

LUQ  — Luul Mohamed Isaq, 42, a mother of seven, has been living in Kulmiye camp in Luq, in the southern Somali region of Gedo, under appalling conditions since she fled from neighbouring Ethiopia last June. Luul and her children have been sleeping rough, sheltering under a flimsy shack made …

MOGADISHU — Somalia’s federal authorities and international partners today launched a plan requiring more than $1 billion to provide much-needed humanitarian aid to some three million Somalis this year. “As we launch this plan, we must reflect on the nature of the humanitarian crises that Somalia continues to suffer. Just …

ADDIS ABABA — The most serious outbreak of locusts in 25 years is spreading across East Africa and posing an unprecedented threat to food security in some of the world’s most vulnerable countries, authorities say. Unusual climate conditions are partly to blame. The locust swarms hang like shimmering dark clouds on …

HOBYO  — Nearly 100 fishermen in the Somali coastal town of Hobyo, Mudug region, have stopped going out to sea because the town lacks electricity to power cold storage facilities. Two of the three power companies that had been providing electricity to Hobyo pulled out three months ago, citing the …

DINSOR — The International Bank of Somalia (IBS) and SOS Somalia have partnered to provide collateral-free loans to 87 small businesses in Dinsor town, Bay region, which is under an Al-Shabaab blockade. Kataba Ma’alin Abdulqadir, a local businesswoman, told Radio Ergo that she has received an $800 loan to buy …

BELETWEYNE  — Farmers in central Somalia’s Hiran region, whose farms were submerged by recent floods, are having to contend with swarms of locust devouring whatever they have planted since then. Kadiye Abdi Gadod, a farmer in Hodug, 34 km west of Beletweyne town, told Radio Ergo that locust swarms have …

MOGADISHU — Galmudug state Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the federal ministry of Agriculture has launched a plan to combat locusts in the area. The initiative also aims to fight against the locusts which landed on crops and destroyed animal pasture in generally. Various farmers and pastoralists have called …

ROME (SoOHA) – Somalia faces the worst Desert Locust outbreak in over 25 years, according to an emergency update issued today by the country office of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations in Somalia and FAO’s Desert Locust Information Service in Rome. Desert Locust breeding is ongoing in Galmudug (Mudug), Puntland and …

ADADO (SoOHA) – Somali women are making inroads into the traditionally male domain of livestock marketing in the central Somalia town of Adado. Sirad Ibrahim Abdulle was one of the first local women to venture into the business with an initial investment of $1,000 four years ago. Sirad told Radio …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – 12 fishing vessels with inboard diesel engines were handed over by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) to the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Puntland State turned them over to active fishing co-operatives working on the Puntland coast. “The vessels are another contribution …