(ERGO) - Despite being behind bars, Ahmed Adan Abdi, 30, feels he has been liberated by the chance to learn to read and write.  He is one year into a...

(ERGO) - Hassan Aabi is carrying the weight of a huge burden on his shoulders as he counts off the days before the debt collectors come for him again.   With...

(ERGO) - Local authorities are helping communities in parts of Puntland to revive a traditional method of managing grazing lands, in order to ensure that herders have access to fodder...

(ERGO) - Dahir Mohamed Jam’a has lived around horses all his life but changes in the way of life in northern Somali and perennial drought has meant that indigenous Somali...

(ERGO) - Two children have died and 300 others are infected in a diarrhoea outbreak in Eldibir village, Galmudug state health ministry has reported. The ministry dispatched a delegation led...

(ERGO) - As part of Radio Ergo’s series on life in Somalia’s IDP camps, our local reporter visited Anjiid Camp near Lasanod, in northern Somalia, where former pastoralist women are...

(ERGO) - Mohamed Abdullahi Ali left his home in Mogadishu four years ago and crossed to Kenya, hoping to find a safer and happier life in the refugee camps in...

(ERGO) - Fadumo Mohamed Adan’s hope of a good harvest has been dashed after all the seeds she planted were eaten by birds. She planted maize on her farm in...

(ERGO) - A newly built dam in northern Somalia’s drought-ravaged Nugal region is giving a reprieve to thousands of families who have lived through perennial water shortages. The dam, with...

(ERGO) -  Pastoralists and farmers in Teleh, in northern Somalia’s Sool region, are increasingly worried about an invasive parasite tree that is threatening their livelihoods. Prosopis juliflora tree, locally know...