New York Times
March 9, 2010
JEFFREY GETTLEMAN and NEIL MacFARQUHAR
As much as half the food aid sent to Somalia is diverted from needy people to a web of corrupt contractors, radical Islamist militants and local United Nations staff members, according to a new Security Council report.
The report, which has not yet been made public but was [...]
Category Archives: UN
Somalia Food Aid Bypasses Needy, U.N. Study Says
March 10, 2010 – 7:02 pm
Choosing Stability Over Democracy in Ethiopia
March 10, 2010 – 7:11 am
World Politics Review, US
March 9, 2010
Lauren Gelfand
Lauren Gelfand is a Nairobi-based political and security analyst
NAIROBI, Kenya — It’s easy to confuse the interior of Nairobi’s Habesha restaurant with a lost corner of Ethiopia. The smell of frankincense and thick, dark coffee waft through the air as the latest tunes by Teddy Afro vie to [...]
How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab
March 8, 2010 – 3:25 pm
Guardian, UK
March 7, 2010
An Observer investigation reveals how rich countries faced by a global food shortage now farm an area double the size of the UK to guarantee supplies for their citizens
A woman tends vegetables at a giant Saudi-financed farm in Ethiopia.
We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards [...]
On the trail of Ethiopia aid and guns
March 5, 2010 – 4:46 pm
BBC
March 4, 2010
Images of the famine in Ethiopia moved millions of people around the world to reach in to their pockets and donate to international aid efforts. But as Martin Plaut has been discovering, there is a disturbing allegation few would choose to confront.
Roughly one million Ethiopians died from results of famine
It was the [...]
UNICEF wants $24.8 million for Eritrean fund
March 4, 2010 – 1:13 pm
Reuters
March 4, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
* UNICEF to help more than a million Eritreans in 2010
* Poor rainfall has hurt agriculture-based economy
ASMARA – The U.N. children’s agency UNICEF is appealing for $24.8 million to expand its programmes in Eritrea, where aid agencies say drought is causing widespread food shortages and child malnutrition.
UNICEF says it will help more [...]
Brief: Somali Pirate Mother Ship Sunk By NATO
March 3, 2010 – 8:17 am
Stratfor, US independent intelligence analyst website
March 1, 2010
A Danish NATO warship scuttled a pirate mother ship off the horn of Africa on Feb. 28, according to a statement issued by NATO March 1.
According to the statement, specialist teams were deployed by the NATO counterpiracy mission flagship, the HDMS Absalon, to intercept and sink the [...]
Somali militants ‘block UN food aid’
March 2, 2010 – 8:47 am
BBC
February 28, 2010
Hundreds of thousands of displaced Somalis rely on food aid from the WFP
Islamist militants in Somalia are stopping convoys of food reaching more than 360,000 displaced people, the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) says.
The agency says trucks travelling from the capital Mogadishu to camps in Afgoye have been stopped by armed men.
Insurgent [...]
Somali pirates seize trucks to get colleagues freed
March 1, 2010 – 3:49 pm
Sapa/Channel Africa
February 26, 2010
Somali pirates in Puntland seized food aid trucks and their drivers to obtain the release of detained comrades, officials said Friday, in a rare land attack by the sea bandits.
The five trucks had been contracted by the UN’s World Food Programme and had finished delivering food aid in the Galkayo area, [...]
Eritrea says US-led sanctions won’t derail economy
February 25, 2010 – 8:55 am
Reuters
February 24, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – Eritrea’s ruling party will press ahead with its economic development plans despite U.N. sanctions and what it sees as anti-Eritrean hostility manufactured by the United States, local media reported on Wednesday.
Abdalla Jabir, head of organisational affairs in the ruling party, accused the United States of masterminding the U.N. resolution and [...]
U.S. condemns Eritrea for “destabilizing” role
February 22, 2010 – 5:13 pm
Reuters
February 22, 2010
Jeremy Clarke
ASMARA – The United States accused Eritrea on Monday of working to destabilize the Horn of Africa region and urged President Isaias Afwerki to bring a halt to what it called a threat to international peace.
The statement released to Reuters by the U.S. Embassy in the Eritrean capital came on the same [...]
