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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 …

HARGEISA (SOHA) – Abdikadir Jamal Ali relished the day eight months ago when he was finally able to move his family out of their miserable displacement camp to live in a decent rented house in the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa. Ali, 26, and his four siblings had been living in the …

ADDIS ABABA (SOHA) – The ICRC and the Ethiopian Red Cross Society (ERCS) jointly distributed emergency relief assistance on February 21-22 to people displaced by ethnic violence in Eastern Ethiopia. Some 690 families displaced from different areas of East Hararghe Zone, Oromia region, and sheltered in Kore and Ali-Ethiopia localities …

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 …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Mogadishu’mayor and the Governor of Banadir region Mr Abdirahman Omar Osman (Eng.Jarisow) has today launched a project to train 400 youths from the city of Mogadishu, Baidoa and Kismayo. The project funded by UNDP is intended to benefit 400 young people of both males and females which …

 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 …

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 …