{"id":2838,"date":"2019-05-02T08:12:22","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2019-05-02T08:12:22","modified_gmt":"2019-05-02T08:12:22","slug":"drought-empties-villages-in-galgadud-as-pastoralist-families-search-for-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/05\/02\/drought-empties-villages-in-galgadud-as-pastoralist-families-search-for-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Drought empties villages in Galgadud as pastoralist families search for water"},"content":{"rendered":"

DHUSAMAREB (SoOHA) –<\/strong> Five villages to the east of Dhusamareb town in central Somalia\u2019s Galgadud region have emptied as the pastoralist families living there have run out of water.<\/p>\n

Four boreholes in the area have dried up, leaving the villages of Qansahley, LabiRaac, Aweys-Raac, Meehanaw, and Galo without any access to water for livestock or people.<\/p>\n

Saed Ali Mire, the chief of Galo village, around 55 km from Dhusamareb, told Radio Ergo that people in the area were feeling desperate.<\/p>\n

He said many animals had died forcing herders to flee to Dhusamareeb town or to other remote areas to try to save their livestock.<\/p>\n

He said about 380 families from his village had moved to other places including Eldher, Beer, Abdi Farah, Gadon and Fagoy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe situation became very bad, the borehole dried, nobody remained here. We only come to check on our houses, people fled to different places in search of water and food,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The chief said pastoralist families from nearby villages who relied on Galo borehole for water have also been affected.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe water shortages have affected everywhere; it\u2019s not just this village but people in other places started crying for help, animals are dying in front of them helplessly,\u201d the chief said.<\/p>\n

DahirMohamudMagan is among those who left Galo village in early April.<\/p>\n

His family now lives in Faragoy, a camp about 10km east of Dhusamareb.<\/p>\n

Dahir brought with him 20 surviving goats from his original herd of 55.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter the borehole dried up, the animals started dying one after another. I fled with the remaining goats and settled in this camp,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Dahir\u2019s family owes $1,450 to various people they borrowed from to survive while in the village.<\/p>\n

\u201cHoping that it would rain, we stayed in the village. But hope faded and we ended up in debt. I am now struggling to pay back the money,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Fadumo Yusuf Mohamed, a mother of five, has been living in Beer Abdi Farah camp in Dhusamareb town for a week.<\/p>\n

She fled AweysRaac village after losing 60 goats last month.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter I saw that the situation was getting worse, I decided to move to the town to seek support. We were pastoralists but now we are unable to cope with this life,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

She sent three of her children to stay with their paternal uncle in town, as she is alone and cannot feed them.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband moved away with the 10 camels that remained in search of pasture. I am unable to feed the children so even sometimes we sleep on an empty stomach,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Source:\u00a0 Radio Ergo<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DHUSAMAREB (SoOHA) – Five villages to the east of Dhusamareb town in central Somalia\u2019s 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 to water for livestock or …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news","category-wash"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t