BBC July 27, 2011 The drought has been especially hard on young children in Somalia The UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) has begun to airlift emergency food supplies to famine-struck Somalia. The first flight, with 10 tonnes of nutritional supplements for children, has landed in the capital Mogadishu, an African Union official told the BBC. [...]
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What’s In Blue, Security Council Report
July 28, 2011 – 12:41 am
http://whatsinblue.org/2011/07/somaliaeritrea-sanctions-regime.php Somalia/Eritrea Sanctions Regime The Council is expected to adopt a resolution by the end of this week renewing the mandate of the Somalia Monitoring Group for a further 12 months. The foreign minister of Eritrea was in New York over the past week making representations seeking the lifting of sanctions on Eritrea. He met [...]
Libya Conflict Diverts Navies From Piracy, IMO Says
July 24, 2011 – 1:49 pm
Business Week/Forbes July 22, 2011 Michelle Wiese Bockmann Fighting in Libya between rebels and national leader Muammar Qaddafi is diverting naval ships from anti-piracy patrols, according to the International Maritime Organization. “One has to be pragmatic and realistic and accept and understand that ships that might be made available to support counter-piracy will be deployed [...]
Aid reaches drought victims in Islamist area of Somalia
July 24, 2011 – 1:45 pm
BBC July 24, 2011 Martin Plaut Islamists of al-Shabab have allowed some aid agencies to deliver aid inside Somalia The Red Cross says it has delivered food into one of Somalia’s worst hit drought areas, controlled by the Islamist militant group al-Shabab. Working through a local committee, the Red Cross delivered by lorry food for [...]
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 [...]
More than 2 million Somalis out of aid groups’ reach
July 24, 2011 – 1:34 pm
Reuters July 23, 2011 Barry Malone EL ADOW – Aid agencies are unable to reach more than two million Somalis facing starvation in the famine-struck Horn of Africa country where Islamist insurgents control much of the worst-hit areas, the U.N.’s food agency said on Saturday. World Food Programme (WFP) officials said the areas of southern [...]
Closer ties between Somali and Yemeni jihadists threatens oil through Aden Gulf
July 23, 2011 – 7:28 am
Al Arabiya July 18, 2011 JAMES M. DORSEY Somalia’s President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed talks to journalists after visiting Howlwadag district following fighting between government troops and members of the Al Shabaab group of insurgents, which has been linked to Al Qaeda, in the capital Mogadishu. (REUTERS Photo) Affiliates of Al Qaeda operating on opposite shores [...]
UN declares Somalia famine in Bakool and Lower Shabelle
July 23, 2011 – 7:25 am
BBC July 20, 2011 An estimated 10 million people have been affected by the drought in east Africa The United Nations has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region suffers the worst drought in more than half a century. The UN said the humanitarian situation in southern Bakool and Lower [...]
Young Eritreans in Ethiopia face future in limbo
July 23, 2011 – 5:13 am
UNHCR July 21, 2011 Kisut Gebre Egziabher © UNHCR/K.Gebre Egziabher Assistant High Commissioner Erika Feller and UNHCR Ethiopia Representative Moses Okello with a group of Eritrean unaccompanied minors in northern Ethiopia. . SHIRE, Ethiopia – As the world focuses on the impact of the severe drought in East Africa, a silent crisis is brewing in [...]
Somali rebels say UN food agency still banned, despite pledge
July 23, 2011 – 5:05 am
Reuters July 22, 2011 * Rebels had said aid groups now free to work * UN says will take initial promise at face value * Al Shabaab group threatens more expulsions MOGADISHU – Islamist rebels in Somalia — who control the parts of the country where famine was declared this week — have said aid [...]