Somalia: Hundreds of families displaced by fighting in Baidoa
NAIROBI, 8 July 2008 (IRIN) - A number of people were killed and injured and hundreds of families displaced, after a night of heavy fighting in the southwestern town of Baidoa, the seat of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG), witnesses told IRIN on 8 July. "At around midnight [local time] ...
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Somalia: Top UN official killed in Somalia
Gunmen have killed the head of the UN Development Programme in Somalia, UN officials say. Osman Ali Ahmed was shot as he left a mosque in the capital, Mogadishu, and died in hospital of his injuries. It is the latest in a string of attacks on officials, which ...
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Somalia: Senior Government Official Killed in Mogadishu Blast - Witnesses
A road side bomb in the Somali capital Mogadishu has killed the deputy commisioner of Yaqshid neighborhood in the Somali capital Mogadishu Saturday, the commissioner said. As the commissioner of Yaqshid neighborhood, Mohyadin Jurus told Shabelle. at least four Somali government soldiers were also killed in the roadside bomb ...
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Somalia: Ethiopia, Somali forces kill 71 insurgents - TV
Allied Ethiopian-Somali troops in Somalia have killed 71 Islamist insurgents in an operation launched in central regions late last week, Ethiopia`s state television reported. Hardline Islamists have been waging an 18-month insurgency that has drawn comparisons with Iraq to undermine the interim government and its Ethiopian backers since the ...
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Somalia: Somalis flood to Yemen for refuge
More than 20,000 Africans have fled across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen this year, twice as many as during the same period in 2007, an aid agency has said. Medecins Sans Frontieres said that almost 700 people had died so far as they attempted to reach Yemen by ...
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Ethiopia: Displaced Return As Fighting Subsides in Central Town
Life is returning to normal in Guri-Eil in Galgadud region, central Somalia, as thousands of displaced people make their way back to the town after fleeing fighting between Ethiopian forces and insurgents. "The town is calm and we have begun the process of bringing back the population," Ali Sheikh Mahamud, ...
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Somalia: Govt Denounces Attacks On Aid Workers As Abductions Continue
The government and civil society groups condemned the continuing attacks against aid workers even as another five Somali aid workers were abducted. "It seems there is a concerted campaign against aid workers and civil society. We don`t know who is behind it or why," said a civil society source ...
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Somalia: Displaced return as fighting subsides in central town
NAIROBI, 3 July 2008 (IRIN) - Life is returning to normal in Guri-Eil in Galgadud region, central Somalia, as thousands of displaced people make their way back to the town after fleeing fighting between Ethiopian forces and insurgents. "The town is calm and we have begun the process of bringing ...
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Ethiopia: Angola: ACP/EU Ministers Worried Over High Fuels, Food Price
13 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in which Angola was represented by the deputy minister of Industry, Abraão Gourgel, the council defends that there should be developed, in short term, actions and strategies aiming at replacing food aid with the production of foodstuff. Such strategies might also grant subsides for ...
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Somalia: Somali insurgents in deadly raids
Heavy fighting in Somalia has left at least 21 people dead and 30 injured, officials and residents have said. Islamist insurgents clashed with government forces and their Ethiopian allies in the capital, Mogadishu, and near Mataban, in central Somalia. The exchanges of machine gun and mortar fire in ...
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Somalia: Govt denounces attacks on aid workers as abductions continue
NAIROBI, 2 July 2008 (IRIN) - The government and civil society groups condemned the continuing attacks against aid workers even as another five Somali aid workers were abducted. "It seems there is a concerted campaign against aid workers and civil society. We don’t know who is behind it or why," ...
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Somalia: Fighting for an Education
"I like to study, even though there is fighting everywhere in Mogadishu," says Bashir Gedi, a 15-year-old student in the Somalian capital. "Education is more important for me because if I can get an education, then I can help rebuild my country." Somalia has been without effective central government for ...
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Ethiopia: Ethiopian Troops Vacate Entire Central Somalia Region
The last units of Ethiopian military troops have wholly withdrawn from Hiran region central Somalia on Saturday night according to the residents. In the midnight residents saw the final Ethiopians army base of Kalabeyrka in Jawil area on the outskirt of Beledweyne empty following the soldiers pulled en route for ...
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Somalia: Response to humanitarian disaster "inadequate"
NAIROBI, 26 June 2008 (IRIN) - Somalia is facing a massive humanitarian crisis but the level of response did not match the needs of the affected population, the medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) said. "Somalia is no longer on the verge of a catastrophe, the disaster is happening now," ...
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Somalia: End attacks against aid workers, agencies urge
NAIROBI, 24 June 2008 (IRIN) - Civil society groups in Somalia and aid agencies have called for an end to attacks against their staff, saying such incidents seriously hampered efforts to assist thousands of needy Somalis. "The civil society family in Somalia condemns in the strongest possible terms the killings, ...
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Somalia: Police killed in Somalia ambush
Nine policemen have been killed in an attack on a police station in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. Al-Shabab, a radical wing of the Islamist Alliance for the Re-Liberation of Somalia, claimed responsibility. The alliance signed a three-month ceasefire pact with the government earlier this month. But a ...
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Somalia: UN warns of Somalia pirate threat
The UN World Food Programme has warned it may have to cut food aid to Somalia if it does not receive new naval protection against pirates. French, Danish and Dutch frigates have protected deliveries for more than seven months during a surge in piracy, the WFP said. But ...
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Somalia: End Attacks Against Aid Workers, Agencies Urge
Civil society groups in Somalia and aid agencies have called for an end to attacks against their staff, saying such incidents seriously hampered efforts to assist thousands of needy Somalis. "The civil society family in Somalia condemns in the strongest possible terms the killings, abductions and attacks targeting members ...
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Somalia: Explosion in Mogadishu Claims Three Soldiers
A remotely-controlled land mine explosion aimed at a Somali government troop convoy passing in Dharkenley neighborhood caused the death of three government troops and injured four others according to eyewitnesses. The blast was heard in Mogadishu. Eyewitness Hassan Salah Muse told Shabelle that on the occasion the bomb went ...
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Somalia: Employee in Somalia seized from home
The head of the U.N. refugee agency in Somalia`s capital was seized from his home by armed men, the agency said Sunday. The man, a Somali who works for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, was taken Saturday night, said Millicent Mutuli, a spokeswoman for the UNHCR in neighboring ...
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Somalia: Somali president targeted in bomb
Two policemen have been killed in the Somali capital after their vehicle was blown up by a roadside bomb. Three other people were injured in the attack which occurred a few minutes after a convoy carrying President Abdullahi Yusuf had driven past. The attack followed fierce fighting in ...
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Somalia: Support for Peace Accord Focus of Meeting Hosted By UN Envoy
The top United Nations envoy for Somalia met today with the country`s international partners to discuss how best to support the war-torn nation in carrying out the peace deal reached last week in neighbouring Djibouti. Under the Djibouti Agreement, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the opposition Alliance for the ...
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Somalia: Dire Situation for Internally Displaced
The United Nations estimates that well over 700,000 people have fled their homes in the Somali capital Mogadishu since clashes between insurgents and Ethiopian forces backing Somali government troops began in Mogadishu in February 2007.Nearly 6,000 civilians have been killed or wounded in 18 months of fighting. Nearly half the ...
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Somalia: Militants attack Somali government troops
At least seven people were killed and several wounded in fighting between Ethiopian-backed Somali forces and Islamist militants in Mogadishu, witnesses said on Tuesday. The insurgents attacked government troops who were raiding their hideout in the southern Mogadishu's Huriwa district Tuesday, touching off deadly fighting that killed three people, ...
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Somalia: Somali crisis `worse than Darfur`
The number of people in Somalia in need of emergency food aid is likely to rise to about 3.5m in the coming months, the United Nations has warned. Mark Bowden, the UN`s humanitarian co-ordinator for the region, says the food crisis is dramatically worsening. Somalia faces a worse ...
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