Food Security Cluster

Abdullahi Nur Osman, the president of the Hormuud Telecom Foundation, recently visited Beledweyne and other flood-affected southern Somali towns to see how local relief efforts were going.  Local businesses, including Hormuud, and local communities have raised huge amounts of cash and gathered food commodities for the flood victims.  However, there …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – A combined $18.7 million has been released from the United Nations Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) and the Somalia Humanitarian Fund (SHF) to scale up life-saving assistance to just over half a million people affected by floods in Somalia. “These funds come at a critical time, enabling humanitarian …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Somalia and the UN Development Programme (UNDP) today launched a new US$10 million climate adaptation project to help rural communities secure access to diminishing water supplies. More than 360,000 farmers and pastoralists are set to benefit from sustainable water management, expanded drought, and flood early-warning systems and …

LASANOD (SoOHA) – Pastoralists in Lasanod in the northern Somali Sool region have been forced to migrate from their homes following mudslides in the valleys where they have been grazing their livestock. Torrential rains and flash floods in recent weeks have left deep gullies and sinkholes across the grazing valleys, …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Up to 6.3 million Somalis will be facing acute food shortage by December, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) has warned calling for scaled-up donor support to avert suffering. In a situation report for October, the UN agency said climatic shocks coupled with widespread poverty and vulnerability …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – The Government of the semi-autonomous Puntland is set to send more security forces on its waters to avert illegal fishing. Puntland’s Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Farah Aisha Beeldaaje, said that the rate at which the waters were being encroached on by foreign vessels was alarming. …

ERIGABO (SoOHA) – Sixteen vast grazing reserves in Oog in the northern Somali region of Sool that had been fenced off for private development by a group of businessmen have been returned by the local authorities to communal use for pastoralists. Oog assistant district commissioner, Abdi Idan Jam’a, told Radio …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Dozens of farms in Somaliland’s Awdal region have been invaded by locusts, leaving farmers wondering how they will recoup their losses.   The farmer who spoke to Radio Ergo in Harirad, Halimale, Maralay, El-Bahay, Qoqol, Arorsel, and Wears villages said their crops of tomatoes, lettuce, pumpkins, onions, and watermelons had been totally destroyed by the locusts.   Suleiman Hassan Said, the chairperson of Halimale farmers association, said his 27-hectare farm had been stripped clean by the swarm …

GALKAYO (SoOHA) – Nuro Osman Kayman, 56, sold her last healthy goat this month to get cash to try to stave off hunger for her family of nine in Bandardseed village, some 80 kilometers southeast of Galkayo town in Mudug. Around 1,000 families living in this remote village have been …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Over 1 million children under the age of five are likely to face acute malnutrition through June 2020, including 178,400 who are likely to be severely malnourished, says the World Food Programme. Areas of concern include internally displaced person (IDP) settlements in Beletweyne, Bosasso, Qardho, Galkayo, Baidoa …