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MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The Dutch government has contributed $28 million to boost relief efforts by the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) in Somalia, South Sudan and Sudan. The UN body said Tuesday the contribution was part of an initiative to scale-up resilience-based development work in countries affected by protracted crises. The …

GARBA HAREY (SoOHA) – Like many Somali herders desperate to save their drought-hit livestock from death, Hassan Hared Omar had been carrying his most feeble goats on his back on the 32 km walk to the river Juba from their village in the southwestern district of Burdhubo. The only borehole …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Mohamud Mohamed, 20, who lives in Baidoa, was pleased to collect his school certificate this month from his hometown in southern Somalia, instead of travelling to the capital Mogadishu. “I received a text informing me to collect my certificate in Baidoa,” Mohamed told Radio Ergo. “This is …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The Federation of Somali Trade Unions (FESTU) has welcomed the new comprehensive social protection policy which was launched on 17 September 2019 in Mogadishu by the Federal Government of Somalia with the presence of senior government officials, diplomats accredited to Somalia, UN agencies, development partners, trade unions and …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged to work with health authorities in Somalia to strengthen primary health care services and improve the capacity of national health workers. Ahmed Al-Mandhari, WHO regional director for the Eastern Mediterranean who ended his first visit to Somalia, said the UN …

AFMADOW (SoOHA) – Ismail Mohamed Shangolow used to keep livestock and grow crops on his six-hectare farm in Afmadow, in southern Somalia’s Lower Juba region. But following consecutive failed rains, he has been reduced to working as a middleman in a local livestock market trying to scrape together a living …

GALKAYO (SoOHA) – Kayf Mohamed Farah moved into a new two-bedroom house just outside Galkayo in central Somalia last week, putting to an end several years of displacement and uncertainty. With 12 children, Kayf’s family fled Galadi in Ethiopia’s Somali region in 2015 after losing their entire herd of 180 …

DUSAMAREB (SoOHA) – The number of girls going to school in Mudug region has more than quadrupled over the last two years as a result of free education and awareness campaigns. Mudug regional education commissioner, Ahmed Jama’a Qodeye, told Radio Ergo that the number of girls attending local schools had …

KISMAYO (SoOHA) – Dozens of families have been fleeing their homes in drought-hit villages in southern Somalia’s Gedo region, as telecommunications network outages have left them unable to buy food and water. Residents in Duya’a-Garon, Geriley, Awsquran, Darasalam, Damaso, Fafahdun, and Khadijo-haji in Elwak district have been facing intermittent network outages, …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The United Nations is warning some two million people in Somalia are at risk of starvation, amid the country’s worst drought since 2011, and is calling for more support from the international community. Speaking at the end of a two-day visit to the country, UN Under-Secretary-General Mark Lowcock said decades of …