SOCIAL
Somali farmers in Afmadow reduced by drought to menial jobs
(ERGO) - Ismail Mohamed Shangolow used to keep livestock and grow crops on his six-hectare farm in Afmadow, in southern...
Popular online taxi firm employing more than 2,000 in Hargeisa
(ERGO) - More than 2,000 young men in Somaliland are now behind the wheel earning a decent living with the...
Badhan’s young deputy mayor elect wants to be a role model for other women
(ERGO) - The youngest female deputy mayor has been elected to Badhan town council in northern Somalia’s Sanag region. Hawa...
Water crisis leaves families in central Somalia’s Mudug region desperate
(ERGO) - Nadifo Muhyadin Hassan’s family survives on the roughly five litres of water a day that she manages to...
Somalia’s first youth start-up soap factory opens in Kismayo
(ERGO) - A youth-run soap factory, the first of its kind, opened this month in Kismayo’sMidnimoneighbourhood giving some longed for...
Somaliland woman fighting for children’s rights
(ERGO) - Lul Hassan Matan has faced hostility, harassment, and detention in her lifelong struggle to help street children in...
Burao reservoir owner shares water with stricken Somaliland pastoralists
(ERGO) - Abdilaahi Ali Hassan, an agro-pastoralist in Somaliland, supplies free water to pastoralist communities stricken by drought from the...
Deaths on the road to Mogadishu as the sick in Wanleweyn have no hospital
Ismahan Hassan Ahmed’s brother, Abdifitah, died last week at the family home in southern Somalia’s Wanleweyn, after failing to get...
Women take off in business with microcredit scheme by local bank in Mogadishu
(ERGO) - Katibo Abdikadir Sheik Ali runs a thriving business transporting mangoes, pawpaw, and watermelons from southern Somalia’s Lower Shabelle...
Two central Somalia hospitals facing closure due to funding crisis
(ERGO) - Two hospitals in the central Somali region of Galgadud are on the brink of closure due to lack...
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