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ELBARDE (SoOHA) – Four people have died in the past three weeks in a measles outbreak in southern Somalia’s Bakool region, in an area close to the Ethiopian border. According to Dr Asar Adan Mohamed, who operates one of two maternal and child health services (MCH) clinics in Elbarde town, …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Form four final exams will start next month in various parts of the country, the Ministry of Education has said in a newly released timetable. The Deputy Minister of Education Feysal Omar Guled, told the media that the 2018/2019 form four final exams will kick off on …

HAVANA (SoOHA) – Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel spoke by phone on Thursday with his counterparts in Kenya and Somalia about negotiations for the release of two Cuban doctors abducted a week ago in Kenya. Diaz-Canel said via Twitter that he spoke with Kenya’s Uhuru Kenyatta and Somalia’s Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed …

GAALKAYO (SoOHA) – Over 60 goats and sheep have died and hundreds are infected in a sheep measles outbreak in northern Somalia’s Mudug region, according to local herders. Sheep measles, which is caused by a tapeworm parasite, hasspread to Bajela, Eldibir, Budbud, and Hingod villages in Mudug region. The director …

HUDUR (SoOHA) – Large numbers of people have been displaced and livestock have died in severe drought conditions being witnessed in part of Bakool region in Somalia’s South West state. The local authorities in Qurajome, in the north-eastern part of Elbarde district, say the situation is deteriorating as the rains …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The UK-supported 4-day workshop drew participants from Somali National security institutions across the country, Ministries of Defence, Internal Security, Justice and Women and Human Rights Development in both the national and federal government. Those trained will now go back to their institutions, and train their colleagues on …

In the first part in a new weekly series investigating conditions in IDP camps across the country, a Radio Ergo reporter visited Barwaqo camp in Guriel. Despite existing for eight years, Barwaqo lacks all basic amenities and does not have even a single toilet, nor a borehole.The people living there …

DADAAB (SoOHA) – Nearly half of recently surveyed Somali residents of the Dadaab refugee complex say they have no intention of returning to their homeland due to concerns about violence, drought and lack of services. Their stated determination to remain in Dadaab until conditions dramatically improve in Somalia appears to …

BAIDOA (SoOHA) – Butchers in Baidoa, in southern Somalia’s South West state(SWS), have been following new rules set by the government requiring veterinary approval before the slaughter of animals for meat sales. According to the director of the livestock ministry, Hassan Ismail Isack, the state has succeeded in implementing new …

KISMAYO (SoOHA) – For the first time in decades, Abdi Ahmed Ali and his family are living in their own modern house in Kismayo thanks to a resettlement project in southern Somalia. Abdi and the eight members of his family returned to Somalia from Kenya’s largest refugee camp Dadaab in …