Thousands of children whose pastoralist families have lost their livestock and been displaced in southern Somalia’s Gedo region have been given the chance to go to school. Sixteen schools, built...

Fadumo Ali Yusuf and her seven children have been spending their nights at the side of a busy main road in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, after they and thousands of...

Muse Abdi sold his house for $12,000 last year to raise the ransom demanded by people traffickers, who had called him with the earth-shattering news that they were holding his...

Nadifo Elmi Wasuge, 34, is pleased with the decision she made to sell up her remaining livestock and go into business by opening a small restaurant in Beledweyne. She auctioned...

Nine-year-old Iisho Haji Sidow is in agony and her legs are noticeably swollen. A rope has been fastened around her legs to prevent her moving and opening the wounds. It...

Fadumo Hersi, 75, has been sleeping out in the cold under a tree for the past three weeks since being evicted from her shelter in Hargeisa, capital of Somaliland. She...

An environmental study carried out by Somali researchers has found that vegetation in parts of the arid northern regions have shrunk by 80 per cent in the last 30 years,...

Abdirahman Jama Farah, 45, was pleased to pocket $100 from the sale of his first ever harvest of tomatoes and chillies in the northern Somali village of Oog. After losing...

Samira Dirir Adan, aged 16 months, died from malnutrition earlier this month in in the squalid camps in Balli-Mataan village, 70 km from Somaliland’s capital, Hargeisa. According to Dr Khalid...

Scores of trucks have been whipping up the dust in the northern Somali town of Kalabaydh, (meaning ‘crossroads’), as the blessing of rain has attracted an influx of pastoralists and...