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LAS ANOD (SOHA) – A clean-up campaign by youth in Hingalol village in northern Somalia’s Sanaag region is fast transforming the once dirty streets and inspiring locals to keep their environment clean. The clean-up launched last month is attracting many volunteers intent on taking responsibility for their environment. Ahmed Bile …

ADDIS ABABA (SOHA) – In his address at the 32nd Session of the Assembly of Heads of States and Governments of the African Union, the President of Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo raised the timely need for progressive refugee laws and policies across the continent. “Even as we …

MARKO (SOHA) – Hundreds of families who have left villages in southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region in the past two weeks because of drought are camping on the outskirts of Mogadishu without access to any services. The assistant chief of Garasbaley, Abdullahi Abdi Mohamud, told Radio Ergo that people had …

The Somali government and humanitarian agencies last week launched the 2019 Humanitarian Response Plan (HRP). The plan states that $1.08 billion is needed to stave off a humanitarian crisis in Somalia, following continued drought effects and other factors such as protracted conflicts in various parts of the country. Radio Ergo’s …

KISMAYO (SOHA) – A joint initiative by a Qatari organisation and an American humanitarian agency is helping to create jobs for youth in the coastal city of Kismayo in southern Somalia. FadumaMoalim Ali, 27, has been jobless for a couple of years but she is now one of the young …

NAIROBI (SOHA) – Countries have been challenged to adopt education as a means of managing migration and displacement and offering those in need a second chance. United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Assistant Director General for Education Ms.Stefania Gianini said that education is a human right and a …

JOWHAR(SOHA) – About 1,000 families displaced by clan clashes in Somalia’s Hirshabelle state are facing hunger and lack of access to basic services. Local officials said the families uprooted from their homes are now camping in Elbaraf town with little humanitarian assistance. Deadly clan clashes over pasture and water resources …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – The humanitarian situation in Somalia continues to be unpredictable and volatile and is among the most complex and long-standing protracted crisis in the world. It is predicted that at least a third (4.2 million) of Somalia’s (12.3 million) people will require humanitarian and protection services in 2019. …

DADAAB (SOHA) – After four years of hard work in secondary school, Ahmed Abdullahi Hassan, a teenage Somali refugee in northern Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps, faces an uncertain future as the results of his exams were declared null and void over alleged cheating. Ahmed sat for his Kenya Certificate of …

MOGADISHU (SOHA) – Mayor of Mogadishu and the governor of Banadir Region honorable Abdirahman Omar Osman (Eng. Yarisow) has said that the internally displaced people`s policy will focus on a process aimed at resettling those internally displaced persons and creating a better life for them that will allow them to …