(Mogadishu 31st Dec 2011) Somali government forces, supported by the people of the Hiran region have taken over the city of Beledweyne and the surrounding area. The Minister of Defence, H.E. Hussein...
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Somali Government begins Operation to Restore Peace and Stability in Somalia
(Mogadishu, December 31, 2011) The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia announced early this morning that it has begun “Operation to Restore Peace and Stability across Somalia” in collaboration...
World + 10 more
International Review of the Red Cross, Issue No. 884: Humanitarian debate: Law, policy, action - The future of humanitarian action
Volume 93 Number 884 December 2011 EDITORIAL: THE FUTURE OF HUMANITARIAN ACTION What evolution and underlying trends influence the future of humanitarian action and its ability to respond to the...
Afghanistan + 4 more
Improvised Explosive Devices, Trends and Issues: November 2011 in Review
John Caldwell Counter-IED Knowledge Manager John.caldwell@cimicweb.org This document provides a summary of incidents and trends involving explosive devices as reported in various unclassified...
World + 20 more
Study on Field-based Programmatic Measures to Protect Education from Attack
In some conflict-affected countries, education itself can become a target of attack for a variety of ideological, political, religious, ethnic, and economic reasons in the context of the larger...
Secretary-General Commends Somali Leadership’s Commitment to Ending Transition
SG/SM/14041 AFR/2312 The following statement was issued on 30 December by the Spokesperson for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon: The Secretary-General commends the commitment by Somali political...
Report of the mid-term evaluation of the SRCS/IFRC response to the 2010/11 Somalia drought
This report presents the evaluation of the 2011 Somali Red Crescent Society drought relief operation in Somaliland and Puntland in response to the humanitarian crisis that unfolded starting late 2010...
Mapping of Nutrition Activities and Capacity Development Requirements in Somalia 2011
1. Executive Summary 1.1 Introduction The 2010-2011 Global Nutrition Cluster (GNC) work-plan began with implementation of a systematic capacity mapping in 8 priority countries in 20111. The Somalia...
Djibouti + 3 more
UNHCR Global Appeal 2011 Update
Working environment The context Djibouti is a relatively stable country in the East and Horn of Africa, where it plays a pivotal role in the search for a peaceful settlement of the Somalia crisis...
Humanitarian Dashboard - Somalia December 2011
SITUATION OVERVIEW Four million people are in urgent need of humanitarian aid in Somalia while most of southern Somalia is in humanitarian emergency. Malnutrition and mortality remain at unacceptable...
Somalia + 4 more
Horn of Africa Crisis Situation Report No. 29
I. HIGHLIGHTS/KEY PRIORITIES · Three aid workers on a monitoring mission in Mataban, Hirran Province, Somalia died when a gunman opened fire on 23 December. · Latest reports from UNICEF and KRCS...
Inter-Agency Child Protection Rapid Assessment Summary Report
A report on the protection risks for children as a result of the famine in South/Central Somalia Executive Summary The Child Protection Working Group for Somalia conducted an inter-Agency Rapid Needs...
Primary Health Care Program, Dhusamareeb MCH – July 2011 – December 2011
Since July 2011, CISP has been carrying out activities in support of primary healthcare at the Mother and Child Health Center (MCH) in Dhusamareeb funded by CHF. Until December 2011, the project,...
Yemen + 2 more
Estonia Supports UN in Fighting Against Child Trafficking in Yemen
No. 424-E The Foreign Ministry is donating 50 000 euros through the UN Children’s Fund UNICEF to support the organisation’s activities in ensuring that children who have been separated from their...
Kenya + 1 more
UNHCR deeply regrets killing of a Somali refugee leader in Dadaab
GENEVA – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, António Guterres, voiced today his deep regrets about the senseless killing of a refugee leader in the Dadaab refugee complex in northern...
Somali Government Condemns the Killing of MSF Aid Workers and will bring the criminal to Justice
(Mogadishu 30 December 2011) The Prime Minister of the Transitional Federal Government, Abdiweli Mohamed Ali, confirmed that the perpetrator of yesterday’s shooting of two aid workers would be...
RCA repatriates 5000 IDPs to their native villages in Somalia
WAM Abu Dhabi, 30th Dec. 2011 (WAM) -- Over 400 Somali displaced families living at UAE Raja (Hope) makeshift camp in Mogadishu were finally back home and assumed normal life thanks to a repatriation...
ICRC sends urgently needed medical supplies to Middle Juba
Nairobi/Geneva (ICRC) – In response to ongoing armed clashes in the Middle Juba region of southern Somalia, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) has sent urgently needed emergency...
Somalia + 5 more
Horn & Eastern Africa: Drought highlights in 2011
NAIROB I, 30 December 2011 (IRIN) - Severe drought, [ http://www.irinnews.org/report.aspx?ReportId=93426 ] exacerbated by poverty and conflict, hit at least four countries in 2011 - Djibouti,...
Somali groups suspend wire transfers from Minnesota
30 Dec 2011 01:32 By David Bailey MINNEAPOLIS Dec 29 (Reuters) - A group of businesses providing money transfers between Minnesota and Somalia suspended services on Thursday, saying it was forced...