MSF Somalia: Free healthcare offers a lifeline to mothers and children in Mudug Region
When Fatima Abdi Ali, 32, experienced life‑threatening complications in her seventh pregnancy, she and her husband travelled more than 125 kilometres, crossing from Ethiopia to reach Mudug Regional Hospital in Galkayo North. It was the nearest facility equipped for such an emergency. On arrival, Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders (MSF) teams performed an urgent caesarean […]
Somalia Key Message Update: Poor xagaa rains limit September-October off-season harvest in the south, September 2025
Key Messages In September — the peak of the pastoral lean season — food security is deteriorating across most parts of northern and central Somalia. Deterioration is expected to continue through January 2026, driven by the cumulative impacts of successive below-average rainfall seasons (2024-2025), an atypically dry xagaa season, and forecasted below-average October-December deyr rains. […]
