Wild animal invade fenceless farms in Togdher ruining families’ crops and incomes↗
(ERGO) – Lack of fencing has stopped 150 farmers in villages in Sheikh, Somaliland’s Togdher region, from cultivating after monkeys, wild pigs and other animals entered their farmland and destroyed their crops. The farmers have faced…
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The drying up of a natural water source in a small town in a mountainous part of Puntland’s Bari region has left more than 10,000 people – including local and conflict-displaced families – facing a critical water shortage. The source in…
Read at Radio Ergo ↗Headline and extract © Radio Ergo — reproduced for reference, full article at the publisher. Radio Ergo audience feedback report 3-9 Sept 2026↗
(ERGO) – This week (3-9 September 2026), a number of callers to Radio Ergo’s independent, nationwide audience feedback platform noted beneficial rainfall, particularly in Jubaland (notably in Kismayo) and Shabelle areas, some in South…
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(ERGO) – Landowners in Baidoa have forcibly evicted more than 160 displaced families from a camp where they had initially invited them to settle, leaving them struggling without income or access to basic needs. The families were given no…
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(ERGO) – Farhiya Abdullahi Abdi, a farmer in southern Somalia’s agricultural breadbasket, Lower Shabelle region, has lost all the crops she expected to harvest recently due to water shortage, leaving her family in crisis. With a household…
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(ERGO) – Three hundred displaced families who voluntarily relocated from camps in Kismayo to Halgan area in April, 25 kilometres from the city, are struggling to find work and meet basic needs. The Jubbaland administration allocated each…
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(ERGO) – 92-year-old Anab Jama Furre says her food and assorted-goods shop in Hargeisa that supported her seven-member family for more than 10 years has closed down because she cannot afford to pay the increased tax rate on businesses…
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(ERGO) – Hundreds of families displaced by clan conflict in Dawaco area in Somaliland’s Sanag region are facing hard living conditions after losing their livelihoods and property in the violence. The conflict, which began on 25 July…
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(ERGO) – The imposition by the Al-Shabaab group of additional payments on the owners of vehicles transporting sand in Baidoa has prevented hundreds of displaced workers from making a living for their families. Jamal Hassan Mohamed, with a…
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(ERGO) – More than 200 families who have lost their livestock in rural areas of central Somalia’s Mudug region are facing increasingly difficult living conditions in displacement camps in Galkayo. Fardowso Nur Mohamed has struggled to…
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(ERGO) – New financial reforms in Somaliland have put hundreds of informal money changers out of work and unable to support their families, as laws have tightened to curb black markets and stabilise the local currency. Authorities said…
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(ERGO) – Shueyb Ahmed Hussein, 34, saves the dollar bus fare by walking two hours every day from Sa’id displacement camp in Daynilie district of Mogadishu to the coast to fish. He makes $100 to $150 a month and supports his parents,…
Read at Radio Ergo ↗Headline and extract © Radio Ergo — reproduced for reference, full article at the publisher. Ponds in Adado could provide water to thousands if rehabilitated, but pastoralists’ livestock are dying of drought↗
(ERGO) – Hundreds of struggling pastoralist families in Adado district, in central Somalia’s Galgadud region, can no longer afford to buy water after the seasonal ponds they rely on have dried up. Their livestock have lost much of their…
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(ERGO) – More than 1,000 displaced families – evicted from a camp in Garowe, Puntland, where they had lived for up to 20 years – are struggling without livelihood opportunities or access to basic services on undeveloped land outside the…
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(ERGO) – For 23-year-old Asma Ismail Ahmed, teaching is no longer confined to the classroom. Every afternoon, she goes from home to home in Hargeisa, teaching children and adults who were unable to attend school because of financial…
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(ERGO) – Pastoralist families in Hodayga, Balli’ad and Jaleel villages in Abudwak, central Somalia’s Galgadud region, are struggling with livestock diseases that have killed large numbers of camels, goats and sheep since May. Mohamed Adan…
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(ERGO) – A new stretch of gravel road has turned a quiet neighbourhood in Badhan, Sanag region, into a thriving local market, giving low-income families a chance to trade and earn regular incomes. The three-kilometre section of road…
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(ERGO) – A Somali organisation has developed a locally produced nutritional supplement that they are delivering to malnourished children from poor families living in internal displacement camps in Mogadishu. The nutritional food is…
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(ERGO) – Around 180 farming families have fled their homes in villages south of Baidoa in southern Somalia’s Bay region after a flare up of conflict over access to land between farming and pastoralist communities. The families have sought…
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(ERGO) – Nomadic pastoralist families who migrated trying to save their livestock say they are trapped in dried out plainland areas south of the Somaliland capital Hargeisa, unable to move away again due to lack of resources. Their…
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(ERGO) – When the River Juba flooded in June in the area of Baar-Sanguni village, some 50 kilometres north of Kismayo, Faisal Dahir Muse was caught unawares just as he was preparing to harvest crops and vegetables on his five-hectare farm.…
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(ERGO) – Nearly 200 families displaced by violent ongoing clan conflict in Jalalaqsi, in Hirshabelle state’s Middle Shabelle region, have arrived in an under-resourced displacement camp in Mogadishu’s Garasbaley district. They are living…
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(ERGO) – As land prices rise in the growing Somali city of Beletweyne, increased numbers of displaced families are being evicted – often repeatedly – from camps built to house them on privately owned land. Farah Ali Kalayr’s family of…
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(ERGO) – The closure of many humanitarian aid programmes in dozens of internal displacement camps in Galkayo has caused job losses and hardship, as well as gaps in information among families living in the camps. Hassan Hussein Noor lost…
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