WASH Cluster

GALKAYO (SoOHA) – An acute water shortage in a village in central Somalia’s Mudug region is affecting more than 1,000 families, some of whom have left their homes in search of water.  Hirsi Omar Hassan, the chief of Tulo-Barwaqo, said the borehole pump broke down two weeks ago and could not be repaired. They tried to raise money locally but the price for a new pump …

GAROWE (SoOHA) – A newly built dam in northern Somalia’s drought-ravaged Nugal region is giving a reprieve to thousands of families who have lived through perennial water shortages. The dam, with a capacity equivalent to 120,000 barrels, was opened last month by Puntland’s ministry of water in Salahley village in …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The continued drought in Somalia has left an estimated 2.2 million people in urgent need of food, the Norwegian Refugee Council has said. The humanitarian organization said that the below average rains since last October has rapidly led to a deterioration of the humanitarian situation in Somalia. …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – The United Nations in Somalia has raised alarm over what it termed as low humanitarian funding response amid a deteriorating humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa nation as drought effects continue to bite. UNSOM deputy George Conway has said the anticipated funding under the Humanitarian Response …

DHUSAMAREB (SoOHA) – Five villages to the east of Dhusamareb town in central Somalia’s Galgadud region have emptied as the pastoralist families living there have run out of water. Four boreholes in the area have dried up, leaving the villages of Qansahley, LabiRaac, Aweys-Raac, Meehanaw, and Galo without any access …

KISMAYO (SoOHA) – The Jubbaland government supported by the UN children’s fund UNICEF has been delivering water to 14 villages hit by severe water shortage around the southern Somali town of Kismayo. Water reservoirs and boreholes in Lower Jubba region have dried up after rains failed, leaving many communities in …

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 …

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 …

NEW YORK (SoOHA) – Children under the age of 15 living in countries affected by protracted conflict are, on average, almost three times more likely to die from diarrhoeal diseases caused by a lack of safe water, sanitation and hygiene than by direct violence, UNICEF said in a new report today. …