Residents of Mogadishu’s Wadajir district have called on the new local administration to reopen hospitals that were closed following the withdrawal of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) from Somalia. The two hospitals, formerly funded by MSF, used...

Rains in Bay region are worsening the living conditions of thousands of internally displaced families in camps around the regional capital Baidoa. Heavy rains have fallen over seven days, flooding...

The sale and consumption of locally grown food is on the increase in Hargeisa, according to Radio Ergo’s local reporter. Ibrahim Yussuf Gafun, the owner of a popular local restaurant,...

At least three children have died in a diarrhoeal disease outbreak in Galgadud region, where dozens of others have been hospitalized in the past week.  The children died in Elshil...

Health officials and residents have reported that at least 30 people have died from an unidentified disease in Bay region’s Bardale district. The disease has also infected dozens other patients,...

Prices of food items have risen sharply in Gedo’s Burdhubo and Garbaharey districts, as Al-Shabaab continues to blockade the roads leading to the area. Somali government and AMISOM forces captured...

Three children playing with a landmine near their home in the north-western town of Buhodle were killed when the device exploded, their father Muse Abdullahi Mire said. The children thought...

Hundreds of displaced families fleeing violence in the western regions of Somalia have been pouring into the central town of Beletweyne. The IDPs, who are mostly women and children, have...

Somali Diaspora women are funding the renovation of Gedo region’s largest hospital in Garbaharey. Lul Mohamed Aden, the spokesperson of a group of diaspora women who hail from the region,...

180 families displaced from Qoryoley, where conflict continues, have settled in a new IDP camp in Sarkusta village on the outskirts of Mogadishu. The IDPs, who are mostly women and...