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Somali brothers reunited after five years apart thanks to INTERSOS family tracing project.

Omer Ali Adan* fled from Merka in Lower Shabelle five years ago to escape forced recruitment by a local Somali war‐lord. 20‐year‐old Omer lived in Mogadishu with his friends for a few years without ever contacting his family out of fear that the local miliia would learn of his presence.

Two decades of separation ended with a phone call, thanks to INTERSOS family tracing project.

Just 20 years old, Yassin Omar* left Mogadishu at the beginning of the civil war in Somalia in 1991. Fleeing persecution by the military and the threat of forced recruitment, he sought a better life in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates.

Presentation of the research conducted in the western Afghan provinces Placed under the Italian Isaf-Nato Command

ACTION : Assistance aux personnes déplacées internes et appui aux solutions durables à l’Est du Tchad

A) INTRODUCTION

RESUME RAPPORT DE MISSION : CANTON OUADI KADJA (SEPTEMBRE 2011)

COMPOSITION Superviseur de Village Assessment, 2 assistants de Village Assessment, 2 assistants de Protection et deux chauffeurs

LIEUX Canton Ouadi Kadja : 17 installations, Awinrado,Hadjer Beida,Hadjar Azarak, Oustani, Damre, Dadjo, Moundo, Dornong, Madoua, Hadjar Nimir, Mouray Dadjo, Mouray Ouaddai, Moudeina, Tandoussa 1, Belbel, Kourlalou, Tandoussa 2.

DATE 23 au 30 septembre 2011

Executive Summary

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Further to assisting the asylum seekers coming from abroad, in the recent past, INTERSOS has extended its relief activities in the governorates of Lahij, Abyan and Aden to respond to the sudden internal displacement of Yemeni people victims of violence within the country. The humanitarian organization has been active in the area since 2008, with projects targeting, so far, the asylum seekers and migrants crossing the Gulf of Aden to escape the war in the Horn of Africa.

After the fall of the Ba’thist regime in 2003, displacement in Iraq resulted in loss or destruction documentation and registries with serious consequences for individuals and communities, including restricted freedom of movement, limited access to life-saving assistance and services, exposure to harassment or arbitrary arrest and detention, and the risk of statelessness.

INTERSOS-OFADEC meeting in Boghé (Mauritania) - Challenges and recommendation for international action

ABSTRACT: The Lord’s Resistance Army continues to be a threat to the livelihoods of civilians in a vast area of Central Africa. Three countries are affected by the actions perpetrated by a militia with a humanitarian impact far higher than its actual size would suggest. INTERSOS, present both in Southern Sudan and in Democratic Republic of Congo, is implementing a regional strategy to respond to this crisis with the goal to utilize its relative added values in terms of flexibility and cross border presence.

Following a recent protection report by INTERSOS, tensions seem to be rising in the northern DRC between local communities and Mbororo nomads. In the area, which is already targeted by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) frequent attacks, many Mbororos have been forced to flee as a consequence of increasing confrontations with the Congolese Army (FARDC). Many of them have taken shelter in South Sudan, in the area of Ezo, where they have received assistance by humanitarian agencies working there. Some of them were reporting abuses by the Congolese
The following interview was conducted in Nairobi last week. The questions were answered by the Regional director (Africa) of Intersos, Mr Marcelo Garcia, who is based in Nairobi.

1. When and why did INTERSOS start operating in the Haut Uélé District?

We started operating in DRC in 2009, since then we were collaborating with UNHCR in South Sudan, Western Equatoria State, (Yambio County and Ezo County) in order to respond to the emergency represented by the Congolese LRA affected refugees, hosted in Makpandu and Ezo settlements. INTERSOS is in charge of camp management, in both

PROTECTION MONITORING - ZONES DE RETOUR

RAPPORT TRIMESTRIEL III

JUILLET - SEPTEMBRE 2010

1. INTRODUCTION

Les activités de Protection dans les zones de retour ont été significativement affectées par la pluie de la saison humide. En effet,, cette année la pluie est tombée copieusement dans tout l'est du pays et même au Soudan pendant le mois de juillet et d'août; elle a rendu impraticables les principaux axes routiers du Dar Sila, rempli les wadis, causant leur débordement et l'inondation des champs autours. En particulier, les zones de Kou Kou Angrana, Lobotigue-Gododigue

Despite the reduction of new arrivals on the shores of Yemen in the last months, humanitarian needs remain high and the work of aid agencies and NGOs is still going on.

The number of Somalis who reached the Yemeni shores by June 2010 is half of the number of those who arrived by June 2009 (around 6600 in 2010, versus 13.800 in 2009). The number of Non-Somalis, on the contrary, (98% Ethiopians) is basically the same in the last two years (14.300 in 2010, 15.300 in 2009).

The first six months of 20101 confirm that, among the migrants who move from the Horn of Africa to Yemen, Somalis

Foreword

Somalia is a country where the situation can improve or worsen quickly. Today it is heading towards the worst: the fighting is rapidly intensifying, hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the fight or are hit by shortages of food, water and healthcare. How to pave - if it is still possible - the way for a solution towards ending instability and conflict that have prevailed since 1991?

1. The International Community and Somalia

A few days ago, the 9th and 10th of June, the International Somalia Contact Group (ISCG), chaired by the UN Secretary

Au mois de juin 2007 le gouvernement de la Mauritanie annonça son intention de rapatrier les 25.300 mauritaniens réfugiés au Sénégal et au Mali depuis 1989, où ils avaient été chassés à la suite d'un conflit interethnique. Le mois de novembre 2007, un accord tripartite a été signé entre le gouvernement de la Mauritanie, le gouvernement du Sénégal et l'HCR afin procéder au rapatriement des réfugiés mauritaniens au Sénégal. Sur la base de cet accord au mois de janvier 2008 l'HCR a initié les opérations de rapatriement en partenariat avec l'ONG sénégalaise OFADEC
Background

As a consequence of the 1991 civil war in Somalia, Yemen became a safe country of asylum for the Somali refugee population: there are currently more than 48,000 refugees registered with UNHCR and the Government of Yemen. It is estimated that this number is but a fraction of the total number of Somalis in the country, the majority being women and children that have been living in Yemen since early or mid 1990s and have experienced or witnessed violence in Somalia. Many refugees live in very difficult circumstances especially in Kharaz camp which has

Intersos is present in Yemen with a project funded by UNHCR, in support of the refugees in Kharaz camp (Lahj Governorate) and Basateen urban area (Aden Governorate).

This project is part of a larger UNHCR strategy to improve government and community protection capacities in Yemen and to develop a self-reliance strategy including skills/vocational training activities and provision of job to assist refugees in attaining self-reliance. Psychosocial counseling activities and risk assessment exercise are also part of the program.

As a consequence of the 1991 civil war