MSF Somalia/Dhakhaatiirta Aan Xuduuda Lahayn Soomaaliya

MSF Somalia/Dhakhaatiirta Aan Xuduuda Lahayn Soomaaliya For over four decades, Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have been providing medical and humanitarian care to the Somali people across the Horn of Africa.

In Somalia, MSF continues to respond to the medical needs of people displaced by ongoing conflict and extreme weather events, and to support services in Ministry of Health facilities. A significant part of our work focuses on capacity building and specialized training for healthcare staff, improving the quality of healthcare, rehabilitating hospitals, enhancing water, sanitation and hygiene servic

es, and conducting health education sessions to ensure infection prevention and control in health facilities. MSF is currently running medical activities in two locations; Baidoa, Bay Region (Southwest State), and in Galkayo North (Puntland State) and Galkayo South (Galmudug State). In 2024, MSF teams included 798 staff, of whom 668 were Ministry of Health staff incentivized by MSF. Additionally, in 2024 alone, MSF brought approximately 176 tons of medical aid into Somalia to respond to the humanitarian needs in the country.

16/08/2026

One in every two children screened in displacement sites in Baidoa, Southwest Somalia, is acutely malnourished and one in every four is severely malnourished. These shocking statistics are the findings of a malnutrition survey carried out in July by MSF.

The survey, conducted across 888 households in 14 displacement sites in Baidoa, also found that one-third of families are surviving on just one meal a day, while only two per cent can afford three meals a day. Read more: bit.ly/4wnPrsM

Intii lagu guda jiray Toddobaadka Naas-nuujinta, kooxaha MSF ee Isbitaalka Gobolka Mudug iyo Isbitaalka Galkacyo waxay l...
15/08/2026

Intii lagu guda jiray Toddobaadka Naas-nuujinta, kooxaha MSF ee Isbitaalka Gobolka Mudug iyo Isbitaalka Galkacyo waxay la fariisteen hooyooyin dhawaan dhalay si ay ugala hadlaan naas-nuujinta iyo daryeelka ilmaha ay dhaleen.

Umulisooyinka iyo wacyigeliyeyaasha caafimaadku waxay ka hadleen qodobbada aasaasiga ah ee sameeya isbeddelka ugu weyn bilaha ugu horreeya ee nolosha ilmaha: Ku bilow naas-nuujinta saacadda ugu horreysa ee dhalashada ilmaha. Caanaha ugu horreeya ee jaallaha ah, oo loo yaqaan dambar (colostrum), waxay ka caawiyaan in ilmaha dhasha ay ka ilaaliyaan caabuqyada, waxayna siiyaan tamarta ay u baahan yihiin si ay u koraan. Caanaha naaska oo keliya ayaa ku filan lixda bilood ee ugu horreysa. Waxay ka kooban yihiin dhammaan nafaqooyinka uu ilmuhu u baahan yahay; waana caana la helikaro iyagoo leh heerkulka saxda ah, waana bilaash. Xiligaan looma baahna biyo, shaah, gulukoos ama saliid. Unuuji ilmaha si joogto ah, qiyaastii laba ilaa saddex saacadood oo kasta, kuna hay ilmahaaga meel kuu dhow adigoo isticmaalaya taabashada maqaarka.

Hooyooyinku waxay sidoo kale kooxaha wax ka weydiiyeen dhibaatooyinka ay la kulmaan, sida xanuunka, caanaha naaska oo yaraada iyo sida loo nuujiyo marka ay xanuunsan yihiin. Kooxahayaguna mid-mid ayey suaalahaas ugala hadleen hooyooyinka.

Qoysas badan oo Soomaaliyeed ayey naas-nuujintu utahay mid ka mid ah hababka ugu waxtarka badan ee hooyadu ilmaheeda uga ilaalin karto khataraha, gaar ahaan xaaladaha ay nafaqo-darrada iyo caabuqyadu weli yihiin khatar maalinle ah. In hooyooyinka la siiyo talooyin cad oo wax-ku-ool ah waxay ka caawisaa inay kalsooni yeeshaan, waxayna ilmahooda siinaysaa bilow nololeed oo caafimaad badan.

Nuriyo Mo'alin walked for hours to get her daughter to the hospital. Seven days into treatment for severe acute malnutri...
15/08/2026

Nuriyo Mo'alin walked for hours to get her daughter to the hospital. Seven days into treatment for severe acute malnutrition and its complications, the girl is starting to recover.

"My daughter is sick; she is suffering from continuous diarrhea and vomiting. And now, she has also developed anemia. They couldn't find a vein in her limbs, so the IV line was inserted into her scalp," Nuriyo says.

Nuriyo is a farmer. This year brought a rare chance to plant, after years of failed rains, and her daughter's illness took that chance away. "Something could have grown in the fields after the rain came, but just when it was time to cultivate, my daughter fell ill, and nothing was planted," she says.

"There has been a drought over the past few years, and we couldn't benefit from this rain either, because my daughter fell sick. We gather firewood and bring it to Baidoa. That is the only way we look for a livelihood," Nuriyo says.

Feeding her children has never been enough. "I have given birth to seven children, and this one I am breastfeeding is my youngest," she says. Her breast milk alone has never sustained them. "Breast milk alone is never enough for my children; I have been giving them tea since the very day they were born."

Newborns get sweetened tea in place of milk within hours of birth. "If a baby is born tonight, sweet tea with sugar is brewed for them in the morning; it is left to cool down, and then it is given to them. Vegetables are completely unavailable in our area. Even if you just need a single onion, your only option is to beg someone who bought it from the city; otherwise, there is no way to get it," she says. Families with nothing cook sorghum, if they have it. "A person who has nothing just cooks sorghum; if they don't even have that, they simply go hungry. We only get two meals a day, in the morning and at night. And even then, it is rare that we are able to get those two meals."

Organised support has been almost nonexistent.
"There is no organization helping us," Nuriyo says. "An organization gave us some assistance. They gave us $180 for two months, but that was three years ago."
"We suffered from a severe water shortage over the past few months; even the donkeys we used to fetch water with, died from the drought," she says.

This is the first time in her life Nuriyo has brought a child to a hospital. Her community is that far from medical care, and that far outside the reach of the humanitarian response. "People usually go to Baidoa, eight kilometers away, to seek help and resources, but we haven't even gone there to look for anything," she says. Nuriyo has been through severe acute malnutrition. "I was severely malnourished back then. They treated me while I was pregnant, and then I simply returned to the countryside," she recalls. Treated once, then left without any follow-up, and now her daughter is going through the same thing.

Nasteho Ibrahim has already buried one of her twins. Her infant son is now in a Baidoa hospital ward, being treated for ...
13/08/2026

Nasteho Ibrahim has already buried one of her twins. Her infant son is now in a Baidoa hospital ward, being treated for severe acute malnutrition. It's the same illness that has sent every one of her children to hospital at some point, she says. "It is an illness that affected all of my children; there isn't one among them that I haven't had to admit to the hospital like this," she says.

This is the third time in his short life Nasteho has brought her son Ahmed to this hospital. The first time he was just 22 days old, too weak to feed, feverish, with diarrhoea and difficulty breathing. He recovered after six days of treatment, then relapsed within days of going home. "Yesterday and the day before, he started having vomiting and diarrhoea again. After that, he began struggling to breathe again and stopped nursing," Nasteho says. His skin shows the toll of the malnutrition too. "My child cries continuously like this because he has a sore/lesion, to the extent that he can't even be held up, and I have no breast milk for him."

Nasteho can't produce enough milk to feed him. "My breasts have no milk right," she says. It's the therapeutic milk from the hospital that has kept him alive so far. "When he is given this milk provided by the hospital, my son recovers. Last time, he was given it, and I took him home from here in good health. My breast milk does not help at all."

Her son's illness sits on top of a household with nothing left to fall back on. She lost her job as a school cook when the school closed, and the family now survives on whatever food neighbours and relatives can spare. "I give them whatever food we can get or whatever we receive from our neighbors, because my husband doesn't have a job," Nasteho says. " No organisation has stepped in. "No organization has ever supported me," she says. "We are looking for an organization to help us, and we are constantly searching, but we have not received any help yet."

Water is just as hard to find as food. "We are facing a water shortage and haven't had water since the dry season (Jilaal). Except for occasionally fetching a jerrycan of water from neighbors or nearby households, we haven't seen anyone even give us water," she says. "We need food and water, that is all we are lacking."

Nasteho isn't displaced. She's lived in Baidoa for years, which says something about how far this crisis reaches beyond the camps. Her son's repeated admissions match what MSF teams are seeing across southwest state, where nine in ten children now arrive with life-threatening, largely preventable complications, and malnutrition admissions have more than doubled in a year.

During Breastfeeding Week, MSF teams at Mudug Regional Hospital and Galkayo Hospital sat down with new mothers to talk t...
13/08/2026

During Breastfeeding Week, MSF teams at Mudug Regional Hospital and Galkayo Hospital sat down with new mothers to talk through breastfeeding and newborn care.

Midwives and health promoters covered the basics that make the biggest difference in a baby's first months: Start breastfeeding within the first hour after birth. The first yellowish milk, called colostrum, helps protect newborns against infection and gives them the energy to grow. Breast milk alone is enough for the first six months. It contains everything a baby needs; it is always available at the right temperature, and it costs nothing. No water, tea, glucose, or oil is needed during this period. Feed often, every two to three hours, and keep the baby close through skin-to-skin contact.

Mothers also asked about the difficulties they face, from pain and low milk supply to feeding when they are unwell, and our teams worked through those questions with them one by one.

For many families in Somalia, breastfeeding is one of the most effective forms of protection a mother can give her child, particularly in a context where malnutrition and infections remain a daily risk. Supporting mothers with clear, practical advice helps them feel confident and gives their babies a healthier start.

MSF team in Baidoa have admitted more than 21,000 children since January, more than double the number over the same peri...
12/08/2026

MSF team in Baidoa have admitted more than 21,000 children since January, more than double the number over the same period last year.

Inpatient admissions for children with medical complications have hit 2,890, a 78% jump from the same period in 2025, which was already higher than the year before. In Mudug, inpatient admissions climbed 70% in June and July alone. Measles cases in Baidoa have already passed 2,500 this year, more than all of 2025 combined.

We've expanded our facility in Baidoa from 50 to 150 beds just to keep up. Read more: bit.ly/4wnPrsM

In displacement sites in Baidoa, Southwest Somalia, one in every two children our teams screened this July is acutely ma...
11/08/2026

In displacement sites in Baidoa, Southwest Somalia, one in every two children our teams screened this July is acutely malnourished. One in every four is severely malnourished.

These findings come from a survey of 888 households across 14 displacement sites, and they match what our clinics have been seeing all year. A third of families here are surviving on one meal a day. Only 2% can manage three.

And still, funding is shrinking. Somalia's humanitarian response plan has been cut by 40% this year and still remains less than a third funded, with major donors, including the UK and US, pulling back support.

The world doesn't need to wait for a famine declaration to act. We're calling on donors to fund an urgent, adequately resourced response in Baidoa and across Somalia, before more lives are lost. Read more: https://msf.or.ke/news-and-resources/news/somalia-survey-people-displaced-baidoa-finds-every-second-child

Dahir Nur Abdi is blind, unable to do the farm work that once fed his family. He has lived in Elbeti 1 camp for four yea...
10/08/2026

Dahir Nur Abdi is blind, unable to do the farm work that once fed his family. He has lived in Elbeti 1 camp for four years now. "I lost my vision, and I still don't know why," Dahir says. "I went to health facilities, but they told me there was nothing they could do. They said there was water in my eyes, and that if I had come earlier, they might have saved my sight. Now my farm has turned to a bush because I can no longer work on it, and the drought forced us to leave our village."

Dahir has two wives and ten children. Unable to farm, he depends on his wives, who take on casual work washing clothes to bring home whatever they earn. "The drought has affected us badly," he says. “Some days there is little to cook. We usually don't eat during the day. We only eat one meal in the evening."

Water was one of the hardest daily struggles. "A single 20-liter jerrycan cost between 5,000 and 6,000 Somali shillings ($0.20-0.25)," Dahir says. "During Ramadan, my wives would stand in line for water from early morning until eight at night. We would miss Iftar because we were still waiting."

"With only one latrine for more than 100 households, children were not even allowed to use it. They had to go in the open." That has changed. "The water struggle is gone; we are finally getting enough," Dahir says. "Instead of one latrine for the whole camp, we now have one for every two households, and the lighting at night has made a real difference." Food and shelter have not improved the same way. "What we need now is food assistance, cash or vouchers, and a proper shelter," Dahir says.

Muna Ibraahim waa hooyo leh shan carruur ah. Maalin kasta waxa ay daryeeshaa laba carruur ah oo qaba xanuunka autism-ka,...
09/08/2026

Muna Ibraahim waa hooyo leh shan carruur ah. Maalin kasta waxa ay daryeeshaa laba carruur ah oo qaba xanuunka autism-ka, wiil iyo gabar; kuwaas oo u baahan daryeel iyo ilaalin joogto ah. Mid ka mid ah carruurteeda waxa uu u baahan yahay ilaalin iyo daryeel gaar ah, balse muddo dheer ma aysan haysan meel ay ku daryeesho. Waxa ay Baydhabo timid bil iyo bar ka hor, iyadoo saaran gaari xamuul ah oo siday baradho, kadib markii ay ka soo qaxday xerada Koobe oo ku taalla gobalka Liibaan ee dalka Itoobiya, halkaas oo ay ku noolyihiin qaxooti Soomaaliyeed. "Markii aan xerada ku noolayn, hay'ado kale ayaa na taageeri jiray, laakiin taageeradaas waxa ay gebi ahaanba joogsatay kahor intii aanay kasoo bixin," ayay tiri. "Biyaha waxaan ka soo dhaansan jirnay webiga. Dadka qaybtood gaari dameer ayaa u qaadi jiray, laakiin dadka annaga oo kale ah garbahayaga ayaan ku soo qaadi jirnay."

Tan iyo markii ay timid Baydhabo, Muna waxa ay sheegtay in MSF ay tahay hay'adda keliya ee ka taageerta dhanka biyaha. "Ilaa iyo markii aan imid, MSF waa hay'adda keliya ee aan arkay oo na siisa biyo," ayay tiri. "Waxaan helnaa afar jeerikaan subaxdii ah iyo afar fiidkii ah. Ma haysto meel aan ku kaydiyo biyaha, laakiin haddii aan heli lahaa meel lagu kaydiyo, waxa aan qaadan lahaa biyo intaas ka badan."

"Gabadhaydu waxa ay u baahan tahay daryeel gaar ah, xitaa marka ay musqusha aadayso. Carruurta kale ayaa ku dhibi jiray marka ayb uxaajo tagto meelaha bannaan, mana aanan awoodin inaan si wanaagsan u daryeelo. Hadda ugu dambayn waxa aan haysannaa musqulo nagu filan."

Markii ugu horreysay ee ay timid xerada, waxaa jiray hal musqul oo keliya, balse MSF ayaa dhistay musqulo cusub. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, hoygu weli waa baahida ugu weyn ee qoyskeeda haysata. Muna iyo qoyskeedu waxa ay markii h**e la degeen qaraabadooda oo ku noolayd xero kale, ka hor intaysan dhisan hoy qoyskeeda u gaar ah muddo bil ka yar ah kahor. Si kastaba ha ahaatee, gabadheedu ammaan kuma dareemayso hoygaas, dhaawac Muna kasoo gaaray lugta ayaa usaamixi waayey inay si fiican udhisto.

"Waxa aan codsanayaa hoy aan gabadhayda ku badbaadin karo," ayay tiri. "Waxa aan ku tiirsannahay qaraabadayda, kuwaas oo mararka qaarkood nasiiya hal ama laba doolar. Noloshu aad bay noogu adag tahay. Waad garan kartaa qof cusub oo barakacay oo ku nool xero sidan oo kale ah, isagoo aan haysan cid uu ku tiirsanaado."

Muna Ibrahim, a mother of five, spends her days caring for two children with autism, a girl and a boy, who need constant...
08/08/2026

Muna Ibrahim, a mother of five, spends her days caring for two children with autism, a girl and a boy, who need constant attention. One of them needs privacy and care that, for a long time, she had nowhere to provide. She reached Baidoa a month and a half ago, on the back of a truck that had been carrying potatoes, after leaving Kobe, a camp for Somali refugees in Ethiopia's Liban zone. Other organisations used to support her family when they were in the camps, but that support has completely stopped before she left. “We used to fetch water from the river—people with donkey carts can haul it back, but everyone else has to carry it on their shoulders including me.” she says. Since arriving in Baidoa, MSF has been the only one helping.

"Since I arrived, MSF is the only organization I have seen here providing us with water," she says. "We are receiving four jerrycans in the morning and four in the evening. I don't have enough space to store the water, but I could receive even more if I had storage."

"My daughter needs special care, including when she goes to the latrine. Other children used to disturb her in the open area, and I couldn't care for her properly. Now, we finally have enough latrines."

When she first arrived, there was only one latrine for the camp, but MSF has supported constructing new latrines. Shelter is the need that remains. Muna's family stayed with a relative in a neighboring camp before she built her own shelter less than a month ago. However, her new home is still not safe enough for her daughter, and a leg injury prevents Muna from working to improve it

"I would request a shelter where I can protect my daughter," she says. "We depend on relatives providing us with one or two dollars. Life is very hard for us. You can understand a new displaced person in this kind of camp, with no one to depend on."

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