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 [...]
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UN Council Asked to Target Eritrea With Sanctions on Mining
August 9, 2011 – 12:33 am
Bloomberg August 4, 2011 Flavia Krause-Jackson and Bill Varner Eritrea, one of the world’s poorest nations whose citizens earn just over a $1 a day, may face tougher United Nations sanctions targeting the mining and remittances that keep its economy afloat. Neighboring Ethiopia and Djibouti are urging the 15-member UN Security Council to impose sanctions [...]
Britain and EU increase aid to Ethiopia while ignoring human rights warnings
August 6, 2011 – 11:55 am
Telegraph August 5, 2011 Bruno Waterfield Britain and the EU have increased aid to Ethiopia while ignoring repeated diplomatic warnings of human rights abuse and concerns that Western funding is being used as a tool of repression by the country’s regime. Photo: REUTERS Communities are being denied basic food, seed and fertiliser for failing to [...]
Famine a boon for Somali militants, Ethiopia opens 4th camp for fleeing Somalis
August 6, 2011 – 11:49 am
AP/Washington Post August 5, 2011 GENEVA — Islamic militants in Somalia who deny there’s famine and block most aid are enjoying a boon in recruitment by giving people money at a time of rising food prices, United Nations officials said Friday. The hardline militant group al-Shabab, whose control of much of southern Somalia and ties [...]
Mr. Yemane Ghebreab speaks to the UN SC
August 6, 2011 – 11:44 am
Embassy of Eritrea in the US Forwarded to East Africa Forum on August 4, 2011 Permanent Mission of Eritrea to the United Nations, New York Preliminary Remarks by Mr. Yemane Ghebreab Political Adviser to the President of the State of Eritrea Before the United Nations Security Council Committee Pursuant to resolution 751 (1992) and 1907 [...]
Sudan delayed evacuation flight for wounded peacekeepers – UN official
August 6, 2011 – 11:34 am
UN News Centre August 4, 2011 UN helicopters in Sudan Sudanese authorities threatened to shoot a helicopter trying to medically evacuate three seriously injured United Nations blue helmets in Sudan’s troubled Abyei area, causing a three-hour delay in the rescue mission, the outgoing head of UN peacekeeping said today. Four Ethiopian blue helmets – part [...]
Boy fighters of Somalia warn of al-Shabab cruelty
August 5, 2011 – 12:39 am
Salon/AP August 3, 2011 JASON STRAZIUSO AP A malnourished mentally disabled refugee from Somalia is tied down to prevent him falling out of his bed at a hospital of the International Rescue Committee, IRC, in Dadaab, Kenya, Wednesday, Aug 3, 2011. Dadaab, a camp designed for 90,000 people now houses around 440,000 refugees. Almost all [...]
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 [...]
EXCLUSIVE-Eritrea behind AU summit attack plot-UN report
July 28, 2011 – 11:01 am
Reuters July 28, 2011 David Clarke * Eritrea threat to whole region * African Union HQ a target of plot * Eritrea channels funds to al Qaeda-linked Somali rebels (Adds plot detail, background) NAIROBI – Eritrea was behind a plot to attack an African Union summit in Ethiopia in January and is bankrolling al Qaeda-linked [...]
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 [...]