Feysal Abshir, 25, a former camel keeper, has been earning his living as an electrician for the last few months after his family lost all their livestock in the prolonged...

Jawahir Ali Hassan, a widow with three children, recently moved out of the squalid Tawakal IDP camps, where the family has lived for eight years, to a decent two-room rented...

Hudur hospital, the only hospital in southern Somalia’s entire Bakool region equipped for a wide range of health services, has reopened under the control of the regional administration, after being...

Herders in Mahaday district of southern Somalia’s Middle Shabelle region complain that they are losing their goats to an outbreak of disease caused by water-borne parasites. According to the social...

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...