Page 22 - Beletweyne News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

This article originally was published on Ensia. When the rains never arrived in the East African nation of Somalia in 2016, nor in 2017, hundreds of thousands of rural residents were forced to abandon their lands and livelihoods due to one of the most severe droughts in decades. Then, in 2019, from September to December, heavy rains led to severe flooding there, displacing hundreds of thousands of people from their homes in rural areas and towns in the districts of Belet Weyne, Baardheere and Berdale. These climate migrants traversed barren and dusty landscapes, or traveled through torrential...

Program/Project Management Job in Somalia about Education, requiring 0-2 years of experience, from Save the Children; closing on 22 Jan 2021

Republish We are glad to share Ensia articles free of charge under the terms of Creative Commons’ Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported license. At the beginning of your post, please attribute the writer and Ensia as the original source and link to the Ensia article. You must use the “Get Article” link below and use the copied text for your repost. Stories may not be edited without permission from Ensia. Please send an email to contact@ensia.com with a link to the republished story on your site once posted. Images and other visuals are not included in this license. For specific questions re...

Farmers in central Somalia cope with back-to-back threats: first floods and then desert locusts 18 December, 2020 - 13:10 Country: Somalia Source: Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations “My life depends on farming. My resource is farming, and my family sustains itself with what we farm,” says Ali Mahamud Rubaax, a farmer based in Dharkeynley village, Beletweyne district, central Somalia. “The constant challenge I face is flooding from the river as it destroys all the crops. When the flooding ended last year, we started planting seeds, but then the water...

Farmers in central Somalia cope with back-to-back threats: first floods and then desert locusts Format “My life depends on farming. My resource is farming, and my family sustains itself with what we farm,” says Ali Mahamud Rubaax, a farmer based in Dharkeynley village, Beletweyne district, central Somalia. “The constant challenge I face is flooding from the river as it destroys all the crops. When the flooding ended last year, we started planting seeds, but then the water came back again,” he adds. The major economic center of Beletweyne is especially vulnerable to seasonal floods due...