Reuters August 20, 2011 MUMBAI/DUBAI – Somali pirates hijacked a chemical-oil tanker with 21 Indian sailors on board on Saturday from near an Omani port, although the exact location was unconfirmed. India’s Directorate General of Shipping said the Fairchem Bogey, managed by Mumbai-based Anglo-Eastern Ship Management, was hijacked while anchored in Salalah port. A Salalah-based [...]
Category Archives: Somalia
Eritrean leader denies support for al Shabaab
August 24, 2011 – 12:32 am
Reuters August 19, 2011 Elias Biryabarema KAMPALA – Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki, accused by the West of supporting Somalia’s Islamist rebellion, denied on Thursday that his country backed the al Qaeda-affiliated group which has been waging a four-year insurgency in Somalia. The diplomatically isolated president, speaking in the Ugandan capital at the end of a [...]
Sharp rise in mortality seen at refugee camp in southeast Ethiopia
August 24, 2011 – 12:29 am
UNHCR August 16, 2011 This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Adrian Edwards – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 16 August 2011, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. An assessment of mortality in one of four refugee camps at the Dollo Ado [...]
Ethiopia famine dwarfs Somalia’s tragedy in scale
August 24, 2011 – 12:24 am
Telegram August 17, 2011 Luc Van Kemenade HUNGER UNDER THE RADAR (THE ASSOCIATED PRESS) A Somali man from southern Somalia constructs a makeshift shelter from tree branches at a camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, today. SHEBEDINO, Ethiopia — Malnourished children are flocking into feeding centers in this forested corner of southern Ethiopia after a drought in [...]
Britain says 400,000 Somali children at risk of death
August 24, 2011 – 12:16 am
Reuters August 17, 2011 Ibrahim Mohamed MOGADISHU – Britain said on Wednesday that hundreds of thousands of children could starve to death in Somalia if the international community did not ramp up its response to the famine there. Britain has already pledged more than 80 million pounds to help tackle what aid agencies are calling [...]
Somalia famine: Turkish PM Erdogan visits Mogadishu
August 24, 2011 – 12:04 am
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-14588960 August 19, 2011 Recep Tayyip Erdogan (L) said Turkey would open an embassy in Mogadishu to help distribute aid Turkey’s Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his family have arrived in Somalia’s capital to highlight the need for greater famine relief. The visit to war-torn Mogadishu is the first by a leader from outside [...]
Cholera Outbreaks Spread Across Somalia, U.N. Says
August 16, 2011 – 4:17 pm
New York Times August 13, 2011 JEFFREY GETTLEMAN Thomas Mukoya/Reuters Refugees at Dolo Ado, near the Somalia-Ethiopia border, buried an 18-month-old girl who died of malnutrition and dehydration. NAIROBI, Kenya — A cholera epidemic is sweeping across Somalia, the United Nations said on Friday, as thousands of starving people flee famine zones and pack into [...]
Somalia: Rights group says all sides guilty of crime
August 16, 2011 – 4:03 pm
BBC August 14, 2011 HRW says Somalis are not being given the protection they are entitled to Human Rights Watch has said all sides in Somalia’s are guilty of serious violations of international law. The campaign group says civilians are bearing the brunt not just of a terrible famine but also a failure by any [...]
Council on Foreign Relations: Al-Shabaab and Somalia’s Spreading Famine
August 13, 2011 – 12:50 am
Council on Foreign Relations August 10, 2011 Interviewee: Rashid Abdi, Analyst, Horn of Africa, International Crisis Group Interviewer: Jayshree Bajoria, Senior Staff Writer The famine declared in five areas in southern Somalia is expected to spread across all regions of the south in the coming four to six weeks, according to the UN Office for [...]
Somalia Famine: Aid Workers Report Fewer Refugees Making It To Food Supplies Safely
August 11, 2011 – 9:04 pm
Huffington Post, US July 29, 2011 Joshua Hersh The number of refugees pouring out of famine-stricken Somalia has greatly reduced in recent days, aid workers in the region say — and that may not be a good thing. “We are seeing this, and we’re really not sure why,” says Giammichele De Maio, the head of [...]