Capital FM, Kenya August 10, 2011 WAMBUI NDONG NAIROBI, Kenya – Members of Parliament on Wednesday put the government to task over the controversial construction of the Gibe III dam by Ethiopia, saying it would negatively impact six Kenyan communities living around Lake Turkana. While moving the Motion during the morning session, Emuhaya MP Wilbur [...]
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Ethiopia Continues Dam Construction Over UN Objections
August 10, 2011 – 12:13 am
Fortune, Ethiopia August 7, 2011 FIKRIE SINTAYEHU UNESCO urges Ethiopia, financiers to halt construction of Gibe III until social, environmental impact is assessed A view of the Omo River in southern Ethiopia where the Gibe III Dam is being contracted. The Ethiopian Electric Power Corporation (EEPCo) has rejected calls by UNESCO’s World Heritage Committee, urging [...]
Famine: ‘Hundreds of thousands of kids could die’
August 9, 2011 – 11:34 pm
AP August 8, 2011 JASON STRAZIUSO DADAAB, Kenya — Hundreds of thousands of Somali children could die in East Africa’s famine unless more help arrives, a top U.S. official warned Monday in the starkest death toll prediction yet. To highlight the crisis, the wife of Vice President Joe Biden visited a refugee camp filed with [...]
Measles Outbreak In Somali Refugee Camps In Ethiopia
August 9, 2011 – 12:07 am
Scoop/UN August 6, 2011 UN Urges Rapid Response To Measles Outbreak In Somali Refugee Camps In Ethiopia The United Nations on Saturday voiced alarm at the plight of Somali refugees in the Dollo Ado camps in south-eastern Ethiopia following an outbreak of suspected measles, and called for urgent action to assist an already vulnerable population. [...]
Somali famine spreads to three more areas, says UN
August 5, 2011 – 12:28 am
BBC August 3, 2011 A child from southern Somalia takes food at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Wednesday 3 August 2011 Tens of thousands of people have been fleeing to the capital in search of food Three new areas of Somalia have been classified as having been hit by famine, the UN says. It declared [...]
Eritrea seeks to rejoin East African body Igad
August 5, 2011 – 12:22 am
www.eastafricaforum.net BBC August 2, 2011 Eritrea’s President Isaias Afewerki has fallen out with most of his neighbours Eritrea’s neighbours say they are still considering its request to rejoin the East African body, Igad, after initially saying they welcomed its bid to end years of isolation. Igad’s Executive Secretary, Mahboub Maalim, told the BBC that the [...]
HORN OF AFRICA: Famine to spread across southern Somalia – UN
July 30, 2011 – 8:26 pm
IRIN July 29, 2011 UNICEF/Riccardo Gangale Some 12.4 million people across the Horn of Africa need urgent life-saving assistance GENEVA – The food crisis in the Horn of Africa is likely to continue for most of 2011 and famine is expected to spread to the whole of southern Somalia, the UN said on 29 July. [...]
Catastrophe in the Horn: Causes and Responses
July 28, 2011 – 10:59 am
Council on Foreign Relations July 26, 2011 Stewart M. Patrick (STR New/ Courtesy Reuters). Newly arrived Somali refugees sit in the open as they await medical examinations for their children at the Dadaab refugee camp, near the Kenya-Somalia border The area straddling Somalia, Ethiopia and northern Kenya, has been dubbed the “triangle of death” as [...]
East Africa’s famine
July 24, 2011 – 1:36 pm
The Economist July 21, 2011 Disunited in hunger Fighting famine is complicated by old rivalries and alliances FOR the first time since the 1980s, the UN has declared a famine in Africa. An exceptionally severe drought is the main cause. More than 10m people are directly affected. The epicentre is in Somalia and Ethiopia—as aid [...]
Somali Refugees Fill UN Camp in Ethiopia Within One Month
July 20, 2011 – 9:56 am
Bloomberg July 19, 2011 William Davison A refugee camp opened on the Somalia-Ethiopia border at the end of June is already full, forcing the United Nations to build another one, the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said. As many as 2,000 Somalis fleeing war and drought are arriving each day at three [...]