Food Security Cluster

KAMPALA (SoOHA) – Regional experts on Monday started a three-day meeting to devise means of improving the livelihood and self-reliance of refugees and host communities in eastern Africa. A joint statement by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD), a regional body, and the Ugandan government said the meeting is attended …

NAIROBI (SoOHA) – The Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) on Friday warned that drought will worsen in parts of Horn of Africa due to persisting dry conditions and unusually high temperatures. “In some parts of Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia persisting drought is affecting water availability, grazing pastures and food security,” …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Sporadic, below average rains and persistent drought since 2016 sees an estimated 1.7 million people in critical need of humanitarian assistance in Somaliland, a figure ballooning by hundreds of thousands in recent months. Communal water resources are drying up at an alarming rate, forcing communities to truck …

KISMAYO (SOHA) – King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) has distributed 1,000 food baskets, weighing 74 tons, to needy people in the Kismayo province of Jubaland, Somalia, benefiting 6,000 people. This aid comes within the humanitarian and relief efforts provided by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through King Salman Center …

KISMAYO (SOHA) – The King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center distributed here yesterday 3,000 emergency food baskets, weighing 270 tons, to flood-affected people, benefiting 18,000 individual . This assistance comes within the humanitarian and relief efforts offered by the Kingdom, represented the Center, to help many needy people in …

GAALKAYO (SOHA) – The construction of market places in central and northern Somalia is helping hundreds of women traders to improve their businesses. Rent-free stalls have been allocated to around 100 women traders after the construction of markets in Harfoin Mudug region, and Dangoroyo in Nugal region. Local authorities in …

JOWHAR (SOHA) – New chaff-cutting machines are helping farmers in southern Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region to use locally available resources to prepare animal fodder to keep their animals fed in the dry season. Sixty machines, provided by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), were distributed in 47 villages in the …

 DADAAB (SOHA) – A small scale farming initiative supported by a local NGO in Dadaab refugee camp in northern Kenya is gradually improving the lives of refugees by developing a sustainable source of basic food and income. A group of 82 families in the refugee camp has ventured into farming …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – The Norwegian Refugee Council NRC has warned that lack of rain has worsened the drought situation in parts of Somaliland leaving 725,000 people at risk of hunger and in urgent need of aid. “The time to act is now, or the costs will increase, both in economic …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – A new flour milling plant in Somaliland is providing a reliable source of income for farmers to sell their grain, as well as affordable flour for the consumer market. The plant, set up by investors in Somaliland, sources raw grain from farmers and mills maize, millet, and …