Radio Ergo

(ERGO) – Ahmed Abdullahi Bocoreey, who lives in Mogadishu’s Wadajir district, earns a living selling different varieties of seedlings grown using compost made from discarded organic waste, and…

The calls to Radio Ergo’s independent nationwide audience feedback platform in the week 2-9 July 2026 were dominated in terms of numbers by people from Hirshabelle, South West, and Jubbaland states…

(ERGO) – Violent clan conflict that erupted in Madah-lagu Hoor in Somalia’s Sool region in early June has forced hundreds of families into displacement and wiped out the homes and livelihoods they…

(ERGO) – Women in Dollow, Somalia’s Gedo region, complain that job opportunities as house cleaners and laundry workers have largely disappeared this year as many local households cut costs because of…

Many callers to Radio Ergo’s audience feedback platform in the last week of June wanted to engage with the radio’s farming and livestock experts, to overcome challenges in controlling crop pests or…

(ERGO) – Families displaced by fighting over farmland in Somalia’s Lower Shabelle region are struggling to survive after fleeing their homes with nothing but the clothes they were wearing. More than…

Pastoralist families left behind in Dajimaale village in Somalia’s central Mudug region are facing severe food and water shortages after three consecutive years of failed rains destroyed their…

(ERGO) – A steep rise in vegetable prices in Somaliland over the past three months has forced hundreds of small traders in Hargeisa to close the stalls that provide income for their families. Farhiya…

(ERGO) – When pastoralists in Qaranracade village, in Ethiopia’s Somali Region, migrated with their livestock hundreds of kilometres away in pursuit of the rains that had fallen in other areas,…

The majority of calls to Radio Ergo’s nationwide audience feedback platform in the week 18-24 June 2026 were from callers announcing good rainfall and the beneficial impact on their livelihoods, as…

(ERGO) – More than 400 households who had already been displaced by conflict are facing severe hardship after being displaced again by Juba River floods in May. Asho Ali Adan and her family of 12…

(ERGO) – Mohamed Muse Ali has a heavy responsibility as an income earner for his family of 14 – and the destruction of his fishing gear by a foreign trawler in February has set him back tremendously.…

(ERGO) – Ali Hassan Malin lost one of his wives and his one-year-old daughter to malnutrition in March after months of struggling to feed his family of 18. Poverty prevented him from seeking medical…