AGRICULTURE & LIVESTOCK
Woman sells off last goats to invest in a restaurant in southern Somalia
Nadifo Elmi Wasuge, 34, is pleased with the decision she made to sell up her remaining livestock and go into...
Herders flee parched Sanag villages and head for mountainous coastal areas
Pastoralist families with their last remaining livestock have been migrating long distances from drought-stricken parts of northern Somalia to the...
Somali herders pay off drought debts after venture into farming
Abdirahman Jama Farah, 45, was pleased to pocket $100 from the sale of his first ever harvest of tomatoes and...
Gift of goats from diaspora community gives new hope to Mudug herders
Pastoralist families left destitute by the prolonged drought in southern parts of Somalia’s Mudug region have been given a gift...
Rain in Mudug is good for the pastoralists, bad for the market traders
The fortunes of traders depending on their living from the livestock markets of southern Galkayo have crashed in recent weeks,...
New grass offers hope for livestock herders in Somaliland
A new type of grass introduced to agro-pastoralists in Somaliland is showing signs of success as a way of keeping...
SANAG HERDER FEEDS MAIZE TO HIS FAMILY AND LAST REMAINING GOATS
(ERGO) - Mohamud Hassan Mohamud, 62, has been buying maize and water for the last three months to feed his herd...
POOR SALES AT JOWHAR’S LIVESTOCK MARKET
(ERGO) - Ali Hassan Idow, a pastoralist in southern Somalia's Middle Shabelle, took his seven cows back home from the market...
BAKOOL HERDERS SELLING OFF LIVESTOCK AT GIVE AWAY PRICES
(ERGO) - Mohamud Abdi Hussein, 70, started selling off his last remaining 25 goats this week at rock bottom prices in...
LAND GIVES INDEPENDENCE TO DISABLED FARMERS IN BAIDOA
(ERGO) - A vegetable farm owned and run by a co-operative of disabled people on the outskirts of the southern Somali...
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