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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 …

MOGADISHU ( SoOHA) – The Somali Health and Nutrition (SHINE) programme comes at a critical point in Somalia’s history with the aim of improving the health and nutrition status of Somalis, with a particular focus on women and children. The UKAid funded programme commenced in 2016 and will run through to …

Ahead of the onset of Gu’season in parts of Somalia, Jubbaland state has embarked on rehabilitation of Jubba river banks to avert flooding as witnessed last year. Radio Ergo’s reporter in Kismayo, Ahmed Abdi Toronto, asked Jubbaland deputy minister for agriculture, Mahdi Muhyadin Mohamed, what measures the government was putting in …

CAIRO (SoOHA) – Arab states are facing a water supply emergency they need to coordinate an urgent response to, with per capita resources expected to fall by 50 percent by 2050, the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said on Thursday. The Middle East and North Africa have suffered more …

LASANOD (SoOHA) – Some 300 pastoralist families living in Kulal village, 200 km away from Lasanod town in the northern Somali region of Sool, are relieved to have their only source of water flowing again, thanks to the quick response of an NGO to a Radio Ergo broadcast. Radio Ergo’s …

NAIROBI (SoOHA) – Around 10.7 million people are currently food insecure across Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Karamoja region in Uganda. Although the food insecure population is lower than numbers observed during the drought of 2017 (15.3 million people), there is a high risk of a worsening situation due to forecasted …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Qatar Charity (QC) signed a cooperation and partnership agreement with the Ministry of Health and Social Care, the Federal Republic of Somalia. The pact, signed at the Ministry headquarters in Mogadishu, came as part of Qatar Charity’s keenness to coordinate and co-operate with all its government partners …

DADAAB (SoOHA) – A team of young women and men living in Dadaab town in northeastern Kenya have set up a brick-making business that has started to take off.  Having struggled to earn a living, and coming from pastoralist backgrounds, they are now supporting their families and dreaming of expanding …