Somali Armed Group Lifts Aid Ban Amid Drought
The Somali group, al-Shabab, says it has lifted a ban on aid agencies operating in the parts of the country it controls. The UN says close to three million people in Somalia need emergency aid. Al-Shabab controls the majority of Somalia, including almost half of the capital, Mogadishu. In the past, they have said food aid creates dependency, but they have also used aid for themselves and charged foreign organisations high fees to operate.
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Somalia:
Famine Warning for Southern Region
UNIRIN, 5 July 2011
Localized famine could be witnessed in some of the worst drought-affected areas in southern Somalia in September, warns the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS-Net). Using… Read more »
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Kenya:
Somali Refugees Help New Arrivals
UNIRIN, 5 July 2011
With hundreds of new Somali refugees arriving daily at the congested and overcrowded Dadaab refugee camps in northern Kenya, incumbent refugees are going around the camp with… Read more »
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Somalia:
Staggering Malnutrition Rates As Quarter of Population Uprooted
UNHCR, 5 July 2011
The massive influx of Somali refugees into neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia continues unabated. Relentless violence compounded by devastating drought has forced more than 135,000… Read more »
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Somalia:
Mogadishu Overflows With Drought-Displaced People
Shabelle, 5 July 2011
Mogadishu witnessed influx of drought displaced people whose haggard faces louder than asking them any questions bout their living conditions. Read more »
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Kenya:
Somalia - Drought Decimates Livestock, Hits Incomes
UNIRIN, 4 July 2011
A severe drought ravaging the arid and semi-arid parts of the Horn of Africa region is threatening the livelihoods of pastoral communities, with massive livestock deaths recorded… Read more »
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Somalia:
The Vital Statistics of Hunger
UNIRIN, 4 July 2011
Louise Masese-Mwirigi, an analyst recording nutrition data in southern Somalia with her team, have on occasion had to turn away from a village because the local authority that… Read more »
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Uganda:
NGO Warns of Disaster in Somalia
Monitor, 3 July 2011
Concern Worldwide, Ireland's largest humanitarian agency, has warned that the current drought in the Horn of Africa, which is already affecting 10 million people, and has been… Read more »
