Food Security Cluster

JEDDAH (SOHA) –  Close to 30,000 sheep and goats from Somalia were turned back after health authorities in Saudi Arabia detected Rift Valley Fever disease, the Gulf nation has said defending its move to reject the animals barely a month after it lifted the two year ban. A statement from …

GROWE (SOHA) – Reports from the Puntland state say that a dead body of a Somali fisherman was found in the coastal area, as well as five others crew members were reported to be missing. The Puntland Ministry of Fisheries has confirmed that the body of the deceased was found …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – Harvests from 550 farms in Salahley, 80 km south of Somaliland’s capital Hargeisa, have been destroyed by pests. The crops were planted in April and May when the Gu seasonal rains resumed in Salahley, after the long period of drought. Mustafe Abdiqadir, an expert working with a …

SOOl (SOHA) – Around 1,800 impoverished internally displaced families living in four camps in Ari-adeye, 32 km north of Lasanod in the northern Somali region of Sool, have not received any food aid in the last six months because of a power struggle among the camp leaders. On four occasions, …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Saudi Arabia has lifted a ban on livestock imports from Somalia, paving the way for export of livestock to the Middle East nation. Saudi Arabia, formerly the biggest buyer of Somali livestock, lifted the two-year ban this week to secure meat supplies from Somalia, according to Somali ministry …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – Former pastoralist Ibrahim Ismail Ige, 39, lives in the Somaliland capital Hargeisa, and earns a living as a grave digger. It is a far cry from the life he used to lead, when he had a large herd of 60 camels and 200 goats in the rural …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – The sugar wars that are threatening to unravel the Jubilee ruling coalition have focused mostly on the product that is imported by scores of licensed traders. But, unknown to many Kenyans, a significant amount of sugar consumed in the country is contraband Brazilian product imported via the …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – For the first time in 30 years Somalia has begun exporting fish to neighbouring Kenya, thanks in part to a reduction in the level of piracy off the Somali coast. The civil war in Somalia has prevented many businesses from developing, but fish traders in the port …

ELBARDE (SOHA) – A combination of food shortages and the collapse of the Somali shilling are making life extremely hard for the most vulnerable families living in Elbarde, southern Somalia’s Bakool region. Halimo Hassan Mohamud and her six children are internally displaced in Halul, after losing their entire herd of …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – Around 3,500 fishermen in Somaliland have been put out of a living by the tropical cyclone Sagar that struck northern parts of Somalia on 18 May. Fishermen in Lughaya, Berbera, Sayla, Laas-qoray and El-Sheikh are struggling to feed their families after losing equipment and the damage of …