Shelter & NFIs Cluster

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Radio Ergo’s IDP Camp series this week looks at the threat of rape and sexual violence facing women living in the camps, who are forced to take casual domestic jobs such as washing clothes to earn a living. Our local reporter met two women in a camp in Mogadishu who shared their stories …

BAIDOA (SoOHA) – Qureisha Abdi Ali, a mother of seven, is relieved to be living in her own house in the southern Somali town of Baidoa at last, after facing the trauma of being evicted three times in the last three years. Qureisha and her family are among the 920 …

BELEDWEYNE (SoOHA) – Bedridden and poor, 55–year–old Ahmed Farah Gedi embodies the hardships faced by disabled people and their families living in IDP camps in Somalia. In this part of our series, Radio Ergo visits Kulmiye camp in Beledwyene, Hiran region. Ahmed Farah Gedi, 55, is one of the people living with disabilities in Kulmiye camp, Beledweyne. He was previously a proud …

BAIDOA (SoOHA)  – IOM has started the relocation of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) who were at risk of eviction to the newly developed public site in Baidoa. Some 682 households, consisting of 3,914 individuals drawn from 12 out of 15 targeted IDP sites have been relocated to the new Baidoa public …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The UN migration agency said Friday it plans to relocate some 24,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) at risk of eviction to public sites in Baidoa, southwestern Somalia. International Organization for Migration (IOM) said the regional South-West State has provided public land to humanitarian partners for development and …

GALKAYO (SoOHA) – In part three of our series on life in Somalia’s IDP camps, Radio Ergo meets a displaced woman whose daughter and grandson were born in the same camp in Galkayo.  The internal displacement crisis has endured across three generations in this family and many other families, who …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – Seventy families have been forced to spend cold nights out in the open after their shelters in an internal displacement (IDP) camp in Hargeisa were destroyed by fire. The fire on 2 April burnt the whole of Nasahablod B camp, as strong winds fanned the flames. Fire …

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 …

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 …

NAIROBI (SoOHA) – Kenya plans to shutter the world’s largest refugee camp, home to nearly a quarter of a million people, in the next few months, according to an internal UN document seen by AFP on Tuesday. The three-decade-old Dadaab camp in eastern Kenya, which shelters mostly Somalis, would be closed …