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...

Saleban Mohamed Mire lost two of his daughters, aged six and two, from measles in the space of a week in the remote and forgotten northern Somali village of Fardhin....

Habibo Hassan Jama, 36, and her nine children feed off the pittance she earns from selling soap on her makeshift stall in a squalid displacement camp in Guriel, central Somalia’s...

Heavy rain has left around 450 displaced families homeless in Abudwaq district, Galgadud region. The families had been displaced by recent drought from around the region and areas along the...

Three hundred pastoralist families migrating away from drought-hit villages in rural parts of southern Mudug have arrived over the past four weeks in the coastal district of Hobyo, where they...

- When Abdirhaman Mohamud Farah’s wife went in to labour and developed complications, he knew there was no-one in the village who could help her. As quickly as he could, he...

Three women in Elbarde, a remote village in southern Somalia’s Bakool region, died this month due to lack of access to proper medical treatment during childbirth. Women in the district...