(ERGO) - Some 300 pastoralist families living in Kulal village, 200 km away from Lasanod town in the northern Somali region of Sool, are relieved to have their only source...

(ERGO) - A village in northern Somalia’s Sool region has banned the use and sale of plastic bags, imposing penalties for offenders. The local administration of Bo’ame village, around 70...

(ERGO) - A team of young women and men living in Dadaab town in northeastern Kenya have set up a brick-making business that has started to take off.  Having struggled...

(ERGO) - Over 4,000 families displaced by drought have arrived in Baidoa town since the beginning of the year. The families, who were pastoralists and farmers, fled from Ufurow, Gof-gadud...

(ERGO) - Several thousand Somali families fleeing recent ethnic clashes in Oromia state in Ethiopia have crossed the border into southern Somalia to seek refuge in internal displacement camps in...

(ERGO) - The posting of female teachers to schools and universities in Kismayo in southern Somalia is helping to encourage girls who dropped out of school to return to the...

(Ergo) - Somali female prosecutors and lawyers in Puntland have expressed concern over the handling of women reporting cases of rape and sexual violence at police stations across the state....

(ERGO) - Three months ago, Mukhtar Qassim Ali moved his family out of a squalid IDP camp on the outskirts of Galkayo to a decent rented house that he can...

The aid agency Oxfam published a report this week warning that up to 1.7 million people in Somaliland are in critical need of humanitarian assistance.  This number has increased by...

(ERGO) - Members of the County Assembly (MCAs) in Kenya’s northeastern Mandera County have introduced a bill seeking to compel employers to provide childcare spaces in the workplace for breastfeeding...