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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 …

GARBAHARE (SOHA) – A 32-year-old man convicted of rape and murder was today executed by firing squad in Garbahare in Gedo region. Garbahare district court had sentenced the man to death and today signed off his execution after being found guilty of raping and killing a woman last month. The …

LAAS AANOOD (SOHA) – Over 20 female university students in Las-Anod town have launched a campaign to help displaced families in Sool region. 150 families displaced by clan conflicts in the region, who have been living without basic needs, have now received food and other aid for the first time …

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 …

Severe water shortage has hit some parts of Hiiraan region after boreholes and the river Shabelle dried up. Dozens of self-organised youth in Beledweyne town have started trucking water to the areas worst affected by the water shortage. Our reporter, Mohamed Hassan, has interviewed Mohamed Abdullahi Burale, one of youth …

AFGOYE (SOHA) – Hassan Mohamed, a farmer on the outskirts of Afgoye in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region, is counting huge losses for the fourth year running, after all the crops on his river-fed farm dried up due to lack of water. Hassan, who depends heavily on farming for his …

KISMAYO (SOHA) – Access to health care services including maternity is now accessible for families living in a low-income part of Kismayo in southern Somalia, following the opening of a new health centre. Around 1,500 families who returned from Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya have settled in Midnimo neighbourhood, which …

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 …