Humanitarian | Horn Affairs

Review | "The Golden Fleece" – A Book on aid instrumentalization

Following the 9/11 attacks and the launch of the Global War on Terror, many humanitarian policy wonks spoke of a…

Tuesday, February 26, 2013 @ 11:49 pm

The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) has announced it is to open another new camp in Ethiopia to…

Wednesday, October 31, 2012 @ 12:21 am

Somalia's Shabaab insurgents on Monday banned the aid agency Islamic Relief, one of the very few groups who were able…

Friday, October 19, 2012 @ 12:45 am

Ethiopia's Minister of Health Dr. Teodros Adhanom has detailed the Ministry’s plans to sharply increase the number of health professionals…

Sunday, August 19, 2012 @ 11:44 pm

The rights-based framework may only have been formally adopted by the international humanitarian and development community in the past decade;…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 3:00 am

In a post from March 2012 here, i discussed the issue of modern day slavery of Ethiopian women in the…

Friday, July 6, 2012 @ 2:56 am

Somaliland’s President Ahmed Mahmoud Silanyo has issued an appeal for drought relief aid. In a statement released from Hargeisa he…

Wednesday, July 4, 2012 @ 11:28 pm

Clashes between two communities in western Kenya’s Rift Valley Province have led to the displacement of thousands of people, the…

Saturday, June 9, 2012 @ 11:51 pm

Highlights: * [Israeli PM] ordered his ministers to accelerate efforts to deport citizens of South Sudan, the Ivory Coast, Ghana…

Wednesday, June 6, 2012 @ 11:01 pm

The UN’s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) in Somalia has said that Somalia’s most recent main rainy season…

Friday, June 1, 2012 @ 11:47 pm