PLATFORMS

DADAAB (SoOHA) – The United Nations says fewer and fewer refugees show interest in leaving the Dadaab refugee camps in Northern Kenya and returning home to Somalia. Some of the refugees say they are concerned about violence, drought and a lack of services in their homeland. As of July, a …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – IOM Hargeisa completed a six-day ‘Training of Trainers’ as well as a three-day follow-up training on ‘Start and Improve Your Business Idea’. The training program is developed by the International Labour Organization (ILO). Thanks to the training, 12 migrant returnees, IOM Staff, government stakeholders and implementing partners …

Traders in the local cattle market located in Sharjah have been advising early customers of sacrificial animals for Eid Al Adha to wait till next week as the shipment of livestock from India arriving soon. The market situated adjacent to the Rolla Bus Station in Sharjah has been one of …

MOGADISHU (SoOHA) – Somalia has secured about 29 million U.S. dollars from the African Development Bank (AfDB) for water and sanitation and roads projects designed to improve livelihoods and boost the country’s resilience. AfDB president Akinwumi Adesina said the grants would help improve quality of life, inclusiveness and engender resilience …

BUHODLE (SoOHA) – Radio Ergo’s IDP camp series this week explores the hard road to success for two men displaced from their homes respectively by conflict and drought, who set up their own businesses in Buhodle in northern Somalia. After 12 years living in a shabby IDP camp, Yussuf Omar Mohamed can finally say he is living comfortably as a self-supporting businessman …

NAIROBI (SoOHA) – King Salman Humanitarian Aid and Relief Center (KSrelief) delivered yesterday 120 tons of dates to the World Food Programme in Nairobi to be distributed to needy people in Somalia, in the presence of Saudi Deputy Ambassador to Kenya Hamza Al-Qurashi; Head of the WFP Office in Somalia …

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 …

DADAAB (SoOHA) – Ibrahim Mohamed Mukhtar, 28, is running a thriving photography business in northeastern Kenya’s Dadaab camp and employing four other Somali refugee youth. Having lived in Dadaab since he was a baby, and coming from a poor family, Ibrahim started making a name for himself as a photographer after leaving primary school in 2017.  …

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – In this week’s report from Somalia’s IDP camps, Radio Ergo visits Nasa-Hablood camp near Hargeisa, where destitute former pastoralist families face a lost past, an empty future, and constant threats of eviction from landowners. Fear and anxiety haunt the displaced pastoralist families in Nasa-Hablood camp, on the outskirts of the …

DOHA (SoOHA) – Qatar Charity (QC) has translated the Global Report on Internal Displacement (GRID) 2019, the world’s most important annual report on monitoring internal displacement worldwide, in cooperation with the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) of the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC). Qatar Charity also announced the release of the …