Tuesday, March 22, 2022
Somalia has faced a protracted humanitarian crisis due to decades of conflict, political instability, and recurrent droughts. Beyond humanitarian support, small enterprises are a key lifeline and income source, especially for those living in internally...
Wednesday, May 5, 2021
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COVID-19 has inflicted unequal burdens across countries, across generations, and across the urban-rural divide,...
Sunday, April 19, 2020
The President of the Federal Republic of Somalia, H.E. Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo, has today launched at the presidential palace a nationwide social safety net programme, which is better known as “Baxnaano”, to help protect the poor and vulnerable...
Tuesday, April 14, 2020
Early Friday morning, people in the Kenyan capital of Nairobi’s informal settlement Kibera began queuing for a food distribution. Residents said they had been waiting for it for over a week — the community elders had gathered their names, ID, and...
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Thursday, February 6, 2020
Dinsoor district communities have been affected by both insecurity and recurrent droughts, having a negative impact on purchase power and access to basic needs. The consecutive underperforming rains in the agro-pastoral area left many households with no...
Monday, November 11, 2019
Somalia caught the world’s attention in 2011 when a famine killed over a quarter of a million people. The country has been struggling with extreme weather changes, violence and disease for nearly 30 years and is increasingly subject to severe climate...
Tuesday, May 28, 2019
Somalia is facing a severe drought that threatens to be worse than the pre-famine conditions of 2016-17. With the failure of the 2019 Gu rains, meant to fall from April to June, Somalia faces its second consecutive below-average rainy season, while the...
Thursday, April 11, 2019
The European Union has announced a further €8 million in funding for an innovative ‘mobile money’ scheme that has already helped over 300,000 vulnerable people in Somalia. Established in 2017, the Somali Cash Consortium uses mobile payments to...
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Somalia has experienced recurring droughts since 2015. Four consecutive failed rainy seasons have resulted in loss of livestock and food insecurity.
After a fierce war broke out between two neighbouring armed groups in Somalia's Sool region, its...
Thursday, November 1, 2018
In 2011 war and drought plunged Somalia into famine. Aid was held at the border, for fear of it being stolen. A few NGOs decided to try something different: giving people cash instead of bringing in sacks of food. They used hawala networks—a traditional...
