(ERGO) – Dozens of low-income families, who can no longer afford to pay house rent in the Somaliland capital, Hargeisa, have moved to Nasa-hablod displacement camp on the outskirts of the city, where conditions are poor. Newly arrived families in the camp say they have lost their sources of income and been priced out of urban...
Nick Ferris reports, Independent The start of 2026 has not been easy for the residents of Madina Camp, on the outskirts of the city of Baidoa, in Somalia’s South West State. According to Adan Adan Abdi, a sub-camp leader of around 50 people, there is an “urgent need” for both food and water, with thousands having...
(ERGO) – The two shallow wells serving the area of Taleh, in northern Somalia’s Sool region, have dried up leaving local residents the only option of buying high-cost water that is trucked in commercially from other areas. Most low-income households can’t afford the water prices and are already facing food shortages and mounting debts. Yasin Ahmed...
By Save the Children Mogadishu– Prices for food, fuel and water in Somalia soared in March, with conflict in the Middle East compounding a humanitarian emergency in the already fragile country where one in three people are going hungry. Fuel prices in Mogadishu surged 150% in March, from $0.60 to $1.50 per liter ($2.27 to...
ACCRA/BLANTYRE (Reuters) – African governments have imposed sharp fuel price increases as the Iran war sends global oil prices surging and threatens to spark inflation across the continent. African countries import most of their petroleum products, leaving many highly vulnerable to supply disruptions. South Africa, one of the continent’s largest economies, on Tuesday reduced its fuel levy for...
Every parent suffers the fear of watching their child fall ill. But not every parent lives in a displacement camp on the outskirts of Mogadishu, finding a way to survive among the tangle of corrugated iron and tarpaulin shelters. For Halima, the fear was familiar. She had already lost five children; “They died due to...
UN News- This number includes women and children and comes after more than a decade of prolonged conflict between internationally recognised government forces and Houthi separatist fighters who control the capital, Sana’a, as well as epidemics, climate shocks and funding cuts. UN data shows that 22.3 million people need aid relief and protection services across...
ROME (AP) — Bodies washing ashore day after day. Phone calls from relatives going unanswered. Migrants’ tents abandoned overnight. Migrants trying to reach Europe are vanishing in droves in what are known as “invisible shipwrecks” but governments responsible for search and rescue are withholding information about what they know. The beginning of 2026 ranks as...
For east African neighbours Kenya and Somalia, the effects of climate change are worlds apart, with one country suffering drought and the other deadly flooding. On the outskirts of Baidoa, southern Somalia, 38-year-old pastoralist Asha Hassan walks several kilometres each morning to find water for the few goats she has left. Two years ago, she...
NAIROBI (Reuters) – The war in the Middle East has reduced Kenyan meat exports to the region to below 5% of the expected level during the peak Ramadan season as a sharp increase in air freight costs grounds shipments, industry officials told Reuters. The Middle East is Kenya’s main market for meat exports, with the...