Main Developments At least 256,000 people have been displaced from Mogadishu since the end of October due to ongoing conflict between Ethiopian/Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and...
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Main Developments At least 256,000 people have been displaced from Mogadishu since the end of October due to ongoing conflict between Ethiopian/Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and...
This report was written in cooperation with the cluster leads for Somalia *The next report will cover mid-December 2007 - 31 January 2008 OVERVIEW The degree of violence in Mogadishu rose during...
Main Developments The 2008 Consolidated Appeal for Somalia, which projects humanitarian needs of US$406 million next year, was launched on 11 December by the United Nations Humanitarian and Resident...
Main Developments The Under-Secretary-General and Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes on Monday 3 December conducted a one-day mission to Somalia to assess the situation of Internally Displaced...
(New York/Nairobi, 3 December 2007): John Holmes, United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, returned from a one-day trip to Somalia today, on...
Main Developments Response activities have been steadily increasing along the Mogadishu/Afgooye corridor where an estimated 200,000 have since been displaced in the past nine months. Of the roughly...
Overview of Environment in South/Central Somalia South/Central Somalia has been the epicenter of the humanitarian crisis, fraught with ongoing and worsening conflict, massive displacement, and...
LIVELIHOODS IN SOMALIA Somalis live in extremely poor and underdeveloped conditions. Livelihoods are broadly based on subsistence farming and pastoralism with limited opportunity to earn wages. The...
Main Developments Several thousand civilians abandoned Mogadishu during the week as the security situation worsened. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) reported more than...
HUMAN SMUGGLING AND HUMAN TRAFFICKING Tens of thousands of people from the Horn of Africa are risking their lives to escape conflict, poverty and recurrent drought conditions by undertaking a...
Puntland is situated in the north east of Somalia, centered on the administrative capital of Garowe - other major towns include Bossaso, Gaalkacyo, Garowe, Laas Caanood, Badhan and Gardho. In 1998,...
PROTECTION ISSUES IN SOMALIA Since 1991 Somalia has been characterised by violence and instability, weak governance structures and limited humanitarian access to populations in need of assistance and...
OVERVIEW The United Nations (UN) Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Somalia established the Humanitarian Response Fund (HRF) pooled fund, in 2004, to meet funding needs for...
Main Developments Sporadic fighting between Ethiopian/Transitional Federal Government (TFG) forces and anti-government elements continued throughout the week in addition to house-to-house weapon...
(New York, 12 November 2007): In the last week, another 24,000 people have fled Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, following bloody clashes between insurgents and government troops. Last Thursday and...
Main Developments Fighting continued to cause suffering and displacement in Mogadishu and other regions in Somalia. An additional 24,000 people fled the conflict and unrest in the past week, bringing...
Main Developments Nearly 90,000 Mogadishu residents fled during the past weekend following the most intense fighting in months. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) and local...
Extract Over the past year, the Somali people have continuously been caught in the middle of the on-going conflict. I applaud the spirit of the people who have assisted each other in these times of...
(New York, 31 October 2007): Agencies monitoring the situation in and around Mogadishu have found that, from 27 to 29 of October, up to a further 88,000 Somalis have fled, of whom some 17,000 have...
This report was written in cooperation with the cluster leads for Somalia OVERVIEW The worst fighting this year since April erupted in Mogadishu during the last weekend of October. The fighting,...