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BURAO (SOHA) –  Close to 150 drought-displaced families in Burao town in northern Somalia’s Togdheer region are facing hunger and lack access to basic services. Local officials said the pastoralist families uprooted from their homes are now camping in Dudub-dilo village, 180km east of Burao town. Mohamed Ahmed Hassan, Dudub-dilo …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – A government driven blood donation campaign in Somaliland has generated 60,000 units of blood to jumpstart the first ever national blood bank in the capital, Hargeisa. The one-month long campaign targeting major towns in Somaliland aims to equip the national blood bank with sufficient blood to meet …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Somali farmers and exporters have started selling local agricultural produce to a new market in Turkey, with the first exports of lemons and sesame recently shipped from Mogadishu. Bashiir Abdirabbi Hassan heads a Somali company that has started exporting lemons. He says the new trade route with …

DHUSAMAREB (SOHA) – In a remote village 50km north of the central Somali town of Dhusamareb town, Ali Abdikadir, a medical officer, is going to people’s homes trying to control an outbreak of diarrhoea. Since the closure last March of the health centre in Hananbur, after funding from the NGOSWISSO-KALMO …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – More than 400 children can now resume their education after the African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM) completed renovation works of a school destroyed in a bomb attack three years ago. Dr Qamar Primary School – established in 2009 in memory of Dr Kamar Aden Ali, a former minister …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – Countries have been challenged to adopt education as a means of managing migration and displacement and offering those in need a second chance. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Assistant Director General for Education Ms.Stefania Gianini said that education is a human right and a …

Most residents live more than two hours from a surgeon, and many cannot afford care, Baylor University researcher says Children in Somaliland suffer a significant burden of health conditions — particularly congenital deformities and wound-related conditions — that could be bettered by surgery, but most of these needs are being …

Two graduates from Jazeera University in Mogadishu have initiated a new method of growing animal fodder to help pastoralists in central Somalia to manage their livestock during periods of drought. The method known as hydroponics is a way of growing crops in water rather than in soil. Hydroponics farming is a …

JOWHAR (SOHA) – A group of young farmers in Jowhar district of Middle Shabelle region is trying to revive the homegrown variety of rice, which had almost fallen out of production in Somalia. Severe drought and water shortages in the last three years, and flooding prior to that, had forced …

GAROWE (SOHA) – Severe soil erosion in Balley Valley, on the outskirts of Garowe town in Somalia’s Puntland region, is threatening the livelihoods of livestock farmers as their herds of livestock lack pasture and water. The farmers are blaming unregulated quarrying for rocks in the area. Ahmedweli Hirsi Gelle has …