{"id":3375,"date":"2019-08-08T23:09:28","date_gmt":"2019-08-08T23:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/?p=3375"},"modified":"2019-08-09T15:23:25","modified_gmt":"2019-08-09T15:23:25","slug":"no-meat-or-milk-for-dejected-somali-pastoralist-idps-in-sanag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/2019\/08\/08\/no-meat-or-milk-for-dejected-somali-pastoralist-idps-in-sanag\/","title":{"rendered":"Sanag: No meat or milk for dejected Somali pastoralist IDPs"},"content":{"rendered":"

ERI GABO (SoOHA) –<\/strong> In\u00a0our series on\u00a0Somalia\u2019s\u00a0IDP camps, Radio Ergo\u2019s reporter in\u00a0Sanag\u00a0spoke with displaced pastoralist families living in a village camp near the town of\u00a0Hingalol. They receive no aid or assistance, other than handouts from relatives who have something to spare. They\u00a0feel dejected and\u00a0miss their former lifestyle.<\/p>\n

Shamis\u00a0Eidid\u00a0Warsame settled in\u00a0Sibbayevillage three years ago after a drought killed\u00a0off\u00a0almost all her livestock.<\/p>\n

She\u00a0had\u00a0hoped to get a better life in the camp,\u00a0at least with some help and support to tide her through the crisis, but she says she is in a worse\u00a0situation\u00a0than before.<\/p>\n

\u201cLife was better before because we had meat and milk,\u201d\u00a0Shamis\u00a0told Radio Ergo.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet\u00a0alone\u00a0development\u00a0or\u00a0progress, we have\u00a0nothing to eat nor even clean water to drink!\u201d<\/p>\n

She gets a\u00a0little from her relative,\u00a0but nothing\u00a0from the authorities\u00a0or\u00a0any\u00a0aid agencies in the\u00a0Sanag\u00a0region.<\/p>\n

\u201cApart from\u00a0our\u00a0nomadic lifestyle, we have no other skill to survive. The livestock perished during\u00a0the\u00a0drought three years ago subjecting us to\u00a0this\u00a0struggle and suffering,\u201d\u00a0said the mother of seven.<\/p>\n

Shamis\u00a0once\u00a0had 300 goats and 30 camels,\u00a0but\u00a0the herd has dwindled to just two camels and\u00a0only 12\u00a0goats.<\/p>\n

Seventy-four families in a similar position to\u00a0Shamis\u00a0live in\u00a0Sibbaye\u00a0camp.\u00a0The boreholes in the area produce salty water that is not fit to drink, so they have to buy water from privately owned water tankers\u00a0coming\u00a0from\u00a0Hingalol\u00a0town, 20 km away.<\/p>\n

Shamis\u00a0can ill afford the expense and has had to let her children give up school\u00a0and stay at home, in order to make ends meet.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this village, we have only\u00a0one\u00a0private\u00a0[fee paying]\u00a0school,\u00a0but my children don\u2019t\u00a0go to\u00a0the\u00a0school as I can\u2019t\u00a0get\u00a0money for\u00a0both food and school fees at a time,\u201d\u00a0Shamissaid.<\/p>\n

Another\u00a0former\u00a0pastoralist\u00a0in the camp,\u00a0Abduqadir\u00a0Farah Mohamud,\u00a0told Radio Ergo his wish would be to\u00a0go back to his rural\u00a0area if he\u00a0could get some support to do so.<\/p>\n

\u201cRather than staying, I would rather go back and restart\u00a0my\u00a0old\u00a0way of life\u00a0rearing livestock,\u00a0because\u00a0here\u00a0we\u00a0have\u00a0no food, water\u00a0or\u00a0even hospital,\u201d\u00a0Abdulqadir\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

He has only 14 left of his original herd of 200\u00a0goats.\u00a0His\u00a0family survives with little support from a relative in the town.<\/p>\n

There are few income-earning opportunities in this area.\u00a0Faduma\u00a0Ganni\u00a0runs\u00a0a\u00a0small kiosk\u00a0selling\u00a0tea\u00a0trying to earn a living.\u00a0She arrived in the village three\u00a0years\u00a0ago after a drought killed all her livestock.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u00a0get\u00a0very\u00a0\u201cLet\u00a0alone\u00a0development and progress, we have\u00a0nothing to eat nor even clean water to drink,\u201d said Shamus.\u00a0little money from\u00a0the\u00a0kiosk,\u201d\u00a0Faduma\u00a0said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI work most of the time and sometimes get\u00a0just\u00a0three dollars,\u201d\u00a0said\u00a0Fadumo,\u00a0who\u00a0tries to raise\u00a0the school fees\u00a0for\u00a0three children from the kiosk.<\/p>\n

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

ERI GABO (SoOHA) – In\u00a0our series on\u00a0Somalia\u2019s\u00a0IDP camps, Radio Ergo\u2019s reporter in\u00a0Sanag\u00a0spoke with displaced pastoralist families living in a village camp near the town of\u00a0Hingalol. They receive no aid or assistance, other than handouts from relatives who have something to spare. They\u00a0feel dejected and\u00a0miss their former lifestyle. Shamis\u00a0Eidid\u00a0Warsame settled in\u00a0Sibbayevillage three years ago after a …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3376,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-food-security-cluster","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375","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=3375"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3375\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sooha.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}