(ERGO) – Thousands of farming families displaced by inter-clan conflict in parts of southern Somalia’s Bay region are facing worsening living conditions in camps around Baidoa and Bardale, after losing their farms, food stores, and homes. The families fled from Kurji, Kuusow, Duugsoy, Darab-Ajuuso, Moora-Qasaale and Buulo-Bilaan villages near Bardale in March, when fighting spread through...
The 2026 Global Report on Food Crises, released on Friday by an alliance of UN agencies, the European Union (EU) and partners, finds that 266 million people across 47 countries experienced high levels of acute food insecurity in 2025 – nearly a quarter of the population analysed and almost double the share recorded in 2016. The report paints...
GENEVA: Drought displaced nearly 62,000 people in just five Somali districts since the start of the year, the UN said Friday, estimating that the countrywide number could be in the hundreds of thousands. The United Nations’ migration agency said that in the five out of Somalia’s 90 districts that it had surveyed, three out of...
AFCADDE, Ethiopia (AP) — The critical note in some of the world’s most well-known perfumes is myrrh, a tree resin from the Horn of Africa that is under pressure from what experts say has been a historic drought. Threatened by the lack of water and nibbled by starving livestock, the trees that once formed a dense...
(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...