{"id":3259,"date":"2019-07-04T23:21:28","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T23:21:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=3259"},"modified":"2019-07-06T06:30:07","modified_gmt":"2019-07-06T06:30:07","slug":"destitute-pastoralists-in-hargeisa-confront-hopelessness-in-idp-camp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/07\/04\/destitute-pastoralists-in-hargeisa-confront-hopelessness-in-idp-camp\/","title":{"rendered":"Destitute pastoralists in Hargeisa confront hopelessness in IDP camp"},"content":{"rendered":"

HARGEISA (SoOHA) –<\/strong> In this week\u2019s\u00a0report\u00a0from Somalia\u2019s IDP camps, Radio Ergo visits Nasa-Hablood camp near Hargeisa, where destitute former pastoralist families\u00a0face a lost past, an empty future, and constant threats of eviction from landowners.<\/p>\n

Fear and anxiety haunt the displaced pastoralist families in Nasa-Hablood camp, on the outskirts of the Somaliland capital Hargeisa, after losing their past livelihoods and facing eviction any day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe only thing we can think about\u00a0is\u00a0where we will\u00a0go to\u00a0next and where our children will live,\u201d said Halimo\u00a0Jama Awale, who, is sleeping rough in the open with her six children, worrying when the landowners will come again with threats.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u00a0visit us all the time.\u00a0I can\u2019t defend this\u00a0land we have lived\u00a0on, I don\u2019t know what to do,\u201d\u00a0she told Radio Ergo.<\/p>\n

Halimo has\u00a0piled up the sticks\u00a0and cloths\u00a0that used to form the structure of her hut. She took the family shelter down when she received the first eviction notice last month.\u00a0\u00a0The second notice came when she woke one morning to find construction materials dumped beside her hut.<\/p>\n

Around 35 families have\u00a0already\u00a0been forced\u00a0to leave one section of\u00a0the camp, which isbeing eyed for development,\u00a0as the city of Hargeisa\u00a0expands towards the outskirts.\u00a0Some of them moved onto another piece of privately owned land five kilometres away, whilst others went further away to a piece of open scrubland.<\/p>\n

Halimo has lived in Nasa-Hablood for six years. The family moved from\u00a0Dabagoroyale,\u00a0near the\u00a0Ethiopian border, after\u00a0all\u00a0their livestock died\u00a0in the drought.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I get a piece of land I would focus on\u00a0earning a living and\u00a0my\u00a0children would live a better life.\u00a0 I\u00a0cannot\u00a0afford to rent a house in\u00a0town,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately,\u00a0Halimo\u2019s source of income has been\u00a0disrupted. The landowners barred the women who were digging stones to grind into the gravel from damaging the land.\u00a0 They have earned nothing for the last three months. They are depending\u00a0on food handouts, help from their relatives, or on their\u00a0husbands\u00a0if they have one.<\/p>\n

The owners have blocked attempts by the locals to construct latrines, so camp dwellers have to use the surroundings as an open toilet.<\/p>\n

Amina Ibrahim Adan, 50, is also struggling to raise her\u00a0five\u00a0children\u00a0alone. She has lived\u00a0in Nasa-Hablood\u00a0for 10 years.\u00a0She and\u00a012\u00a0other families\u00a0in her part of the camp\u00a0have received four eviction notices since April.<\/p>\n

She took down her hut after the first warning but put it has put it back up again for the time being as the men have not yet returned to threaten them.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe wanted to settle in this\u00a0area so that we could\u00a0be\u00a0seen by the government and the people and\u00a0they could\u00a0help us,\u201d Amina\u00a0told Radio Ergo.<\/p>\n

\u201cCircumstances forced us\u00a0to\u00a0live in the camp. When we lost our livestock and migrated to the city we couldn\u2019t afford the house rent.\u201d<\/p>\n

Amina has been diagnosed with tuberculosis and is often sick. She yearns for a safe place to settle and\u00a0construct a\u00a0small\u00a0house. The family lost all their\u00a0250 goats\u00a0back in 2009.<\/p>\n

Nasa-Hablood currently hosts 532 destitute former pastoralist families. They are living without access to\u00a0schools\u00a0or a health centre. The women give birth\u00a0in their huts. They have to buy water.<\/p>\n

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

HARGEISA (SoOHA) – In this week\u2019s\u00a0report\u00a0from Somalia\u2019s IDP camps, Radio Ergo visits Nasa-Hablood camp near Hargeisa, where destitute former pastoralist families\u00a0face 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 Somaliland capital Hargeisa, after losing …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-displacement-and-asylum","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3259"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3261,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3259\/revisions\/3261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3260"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}