Somalia: Al-Shabaab forces ICRC to suspend service [Press release]
The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) announced its decision to suspend aid deliveries on January 12, 2012. The…
Friday, January 13, 2012 @ 4:31 am
Humanitarian
A US bank’s suspension of Somalian diaspora money transfer companies
Somalia’s Transitional Federal Government appealed to the US Government and the US-based Sunrise Community Banks for the resumption of the…
Sunday, January 8, 2012 @ 4:26 am
Ethio-Kenya border: Thousands flee clashes in Moyale
At least six people have been killed in a fresh wave of fighting between two rival groups near the northern…
Sunday, January 8, 2012 @ 12:40 am
Kenya-Somalia: Progress in the north, causality in the central fronts
Kenya’s military operation (Operation Linda Nchi) against Al-Shabaab was launched in mid-October in three directions, as reported previously in this…
Sunday, January 1, 2012 @ 11:48 pm
Somalia: Two aid workers killed in Mogadishu [MSF Press statement]
Two aid workers were shot dead in Somalia capital, Mogadishu, according to a press statement from Medecins Sans Frontieres. The…
Sunday, January 1, 2012 @ 11:42 pm
Horn of Africa: Drought highlights of year 2011
Severe drought, exacerbated by poverty and conflict, hit at least four countries in 2011 - Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia…
Sunday, January 1, 2012 @ 11:37 pm
Ethiopians in Yemen: Hundreds came home, thousands remain behind
Hundreds of Ethiopians stranded in Yemen are being flown home by the International Organization of Migration(IOM) and the Ethiopian government.…
Friday, December 23, 2011 @ 10:09 pm
Britain’s Christmas gift for the Horn of Africa
In a press release yesterday, Development Secretary Andrew Mitchell announced the ‘British-funded food supplies and lifesaving medicines [that] will arrive…
Friday, December 23, 2011 @ 5:40 am
Somalia: Rape on the rise amid “climate of fear” in Mogadishu IDP camps
The number of reported rapes in camps for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Mogadishu, the Somali capital, has risen sharply,…
Friday, December 23, 2011 @ 5:10 am
Aid Effectiveness Forum set a New Deal for fragile states
At the global aid effectiveness forum in Busan, South Korea, in November and December this year, the "G7+", a group…
Wednesday, December 21, 2011 @ 5:55 am
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