Food Security Cluster

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – About 2.1 million people in Somalia face acute food insecurity through December due to severe drought that has ravaged several parts of the country, the United Nations food agency said on Monday. According to assessment results by Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU), which was managed by …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The European Commission is mobilizing $55.9 million for emergency humanitarian funding to help people hit by drought in four countries in the Horn of Africa. The biggest portion of humanitarian aid package goes to Somalia as $27.9 million will support drought-affected communities, Ethiopia receives $22.3 million, Kenya …

BAIDOA (SoOHA) – Southwest state president Abdiaziz Hassan Mohamed Laftagareen has today received delegates from the World Food Program (WFP) led by the newly appointed country director of the United Nations (WFP) in Somalia, Mr Cesar Arroyo to explore the situation of Southwest Somalia. President Laftagreen accompanied by some of …

GALKAYO (SoOHA) –  Yasmin Abdi Mohamed, a vegetable vendor, has to split her small income between her immediate family and her displaced relatives living in a camp in the northern Somali town of Galkayo.    She sends food every week to her brother and parents in Doha-Mudug camp. But the earnings from her kiosk do not stretch far enough.  “I have …

ERI GABO (SoOHA) – In our series on Somalia’s IDP camps, Radio Ergo’s reporter in Sanag spoke with displaced pastoralist families living in a village camp near the town of Hingalol. They receive no aid or assistance, other than handouts from relatives who have something to spare. They feel dejected and miss their former lifestyle. Shamis Eidid Warsame settled in Sibbayevillage …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Hussein Mudey has hit on a successful way to earn a living, as well as enhancing the environment, by selling small trees and pot plants in Mogadishu.   The father of three from Afgoye, in Lower Shabelle region, can be seen pushing his wheelbarrow loaded with young trees and pot plants in bags around the streets of Mogadishu, selling to hotels, offices, and home-owners. …

A 2018 global report on food crises by the United Nations has listed Somalia as one of the four countries that experienced the worst food crises. Together with Somalia in the list are Nigeria, Yemen, and South Sudan. According to the report, around 124 million people in 51 countries face …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Swarms of locusts have stripped large tracts of farmland across 10 districts in Somaliland, leaving farmers without any crops left to harvest.  The locusts have eaten crops including pumpkins, pepper, tomatoes, lettuce onions, pawpaw, and oranges, in districts in Sahil, Marodi-jeh, Awdal and Sanag regions.  Somaliland’s minister of agriculture, Ahmed Mumin Seed, told Radio Ergo they had assigned a committee to assess the losses caused …

NAIROBI (SoOHA) – King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) delivered yesterday 120 tons of dates to the World Food Programme in Nairobi to be distributed to needy people in Somalia, in the presence of Saudi Deputy Ambassador to Kenya Hamza Al-Qurashi; Head of the WFP Office in Somalia …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – Rough terrain and impassable roads are reducing profits for small scaleSomali coffee farmers in Puntland.  The farmers in the Al–Madow mountain range, stretching west from Bossaso to the northwest of Erigavo, are forced to use donkeys to transport their coffee beans to an accessible transit point, where they pay commercial lorries for onward transport to the northern port city of Bossaso.  Mukhtar Abdullahi Isse, who lives in Dadan village, has two plots measuring 2.5 hectares …