Impact stories

I met Sadeem in the small village of Xaaxi in Somaliland, three dusty hours away from the closest town of Burao. Together with other women and children she sits under a mango tree. Her hands are folded in her colourful cloth, her voice breaking with…

By Elizabeth White, Advocacy and Communications Officer - CARE Somalia, with additional input from Kathy Relleen Evans, Regional Advocacy Coordinator – East Central & Southern Africa Region

Ali Jama is a father of 7 children, living near the sea shore of Gabac village; he has no food to feed his children due to damage caused by the cyclone to his boats and fishing gear which was the main source of livelihood he had.

25 year-old Faduma Ahmed Mohamed was with her family at her home in Tabin village when the cyclone hit. She recounts the loss of almost 450 goats.

The tropical cyclone leaves a trail of devastation in its wake at Banhaar, 6km away from Qarxis village of Eyl District My visit to the hard-hit tropical

The Horn of Africa region is experiencing the most serious food crisis in the world today. Successive seasons of failed rains, combined with increasing food prices, underdevelopment, poor governance in some places, conflict and limited humanitarian…

Hunger and water scarcity are perennial in many parts of Somalia, especially among communities trapped in the south’s 20-year old warfare. But in the summer of 2011, images and stories of starving Somali people gained

I still remember the 1st of May 2011. His Excellency Mwai Kibaki, the President of Kenya, declared the ongoing drought a national disaster and called upon donors and well wishers to support the country in that difficult time.

On July 20th, 2011, the United Nations declared a state of famine in two areas of southern Somalia: the Bakool agropastoral livelihood zones and all areas of Lower Shabelle. Subsequently, four more Somali areas have been declared as a famine. At that…