Almost half a million children in Somalia face severe malnourishment and are at risk of dying from hunger, an NGO warned Monday, just as international aid operations are scaled back. The Horn of Africa nation is one of the world’s poorest, enduring decades of civil war, climate disasters and a bloody insurgency by the Al-Qaeda-linked...
(ERGO) – Poor women affected by the drought conditions in Dusamareb, in central Somalia’s Galmudug state, are unable to return their children to school after they were expelled for failure to pay school fees. Maka Hassan Ahmed’s four school aged children have been out of school since March. She used to earn a living by slaughtering...
(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...