(ERGO) – Shifting sand dunes have forced 150 families from their homes, destroying their livelihoods in Midnimo settlement north of Kismayo, in Lower Juba region. These families include those repatriated back to Somalia from Kenyan refugee camps and others who have been internally displaced within the region. Hamdi Muhumed Hilowle, a former refugee from Kenya, had...
By Abdinasir Ali BBC Somali Outrage has spread in Somalia after an eight-year-old girl, who had been missing for six months, was found living with a man who said he was her husband. The girl was reported missing by her family in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland last September. Months later, it emerged the girl’s...
CAIRO (AP) — Muslims around the world are bidding farewell to the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and will soon start celebrating the holiday of Eid al-Fitr. Eid is typically greeted with joy and excitement and is marked with congregational prayers and festivities that usually include family visits, gatherings, outings and new clothes. For some Muslims, this...
(ERGO) – Since fleeing conflict in their home area in Erigabo in December 2024, Hibaq Ahmed Mohamed and her seven children all squeeze at night into the tiny two-metre square room lent to them by a family they know in Badhan. Hibaq, with two disabled children and an elderly disabled husband, manages to put together one...