PLATFORMS

JOWHAR (SoOHA) – Residents of Jowar-bile suburb in the southern Somali town of Jowhar have been accessing free medical services for the last eight months thanks to an initiative by young medical graduates in the town. Thirteen doctors have joined hands to set up Hantiwadag mother and child health care …

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 …

TORONTO (SoOHA) – Canada Border Services Agency has suspended the imminent deportation of a former child refugee and fosters child to Somalia at the request of the United Nations. Abdilahi Elmi, 34, arrived in Toronto in 1995 after fleeing Somalia and living in a refugee camp. He and his mother …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Sahro Adan Mohamed, 44, can now use her mobile phone, search for names in her phone contacts, and read SMS texts without any help. For as long as she can remember, Sahro has relied on her children to help her use her phone, but now she feels …

BOSSASO (SoOHA) – As part of an ongoing series on IDP camps in Somalia, Radio Ergo’s local reporter in Bossaso visited a camp where cash assistance is making a big difference to families using it to invest in business and education. Halima Bile Ali is working hard to move her family out of …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Up to one million people in Somalia will receive lifesaving food and clean water to help stop starvation and malnutrition thanks to new UK funding announced today. Minister for Africa Andrew Stephenson has announced that UK aid will provide extra food, water, and medicine to help vulnerable …

NEW YORK (SoOHA) – Every year on World Humanitarian Day, people across the globe rally support for humanitarian aid workers who dedicate their lives to helping the most vulnerable. It marks the day in 2003, when the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, Iraq, was attacked by terrorists, killing 22 people, including …

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 …

GALKAYO (SoOHA) –  Yasmin Abdi Mohamed, a vegetable vendor, has to split her small income between her immediate family and her displaced relatives living in a camp in the northern Somali town of Galkayo.    She sends food every week to her brother and parents in Doha-Mudug camp. But the earnings from her kiosk do not stretch far enough.  “I have …

BRUSSELS (SoOHA) – The European Commission announced on 7 August a further €50 million in emergency humanitarian funding to help the people hit by drought in the Horn of Africa. The funding will support drought-affected communities in Somalia (€25 million), Ethiopia (€20 million), Kenya (€3 million) and Uganda (€2 million). With many …