Submitted by sojra on 8 January, 2010 - 22:59
Youth Organization for Relief and Development is warning the possibility of life threatening diseases against the 1 million Somali IDPs in southern Somalia following when the world food program halted the food distribution to the people for humanitarian security reason and the bribe that Islamist organization are demanding from the agency.
Submitted by sojra on 21 November, 2009 - 17:41
Submitted by sojra on 17 November, 2009 - 16:37
Nairobi/Geneva – Delegates from the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement will gather in Nairobi from 18 to 25 November to address today’s most pressing humanitarian challenges. It's the first time ever that the world's largest humanitarian network will hold a Movement-wide meeting of its leaders in Africa.
Submitted by sojra on 4 September, 2009 - 03:16
Nairobi/Geneva (ICRC) – The longstanding armed conflict in Somalia is taking a heavy toll on the country's population.
Thousands of people continue to flee the hostilities in Mogadishu. They either find refuge with relatives or host families or look for shelter in makeshift camps. In cooperation with the Somali Red Crescent Society, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) completed a distribution last week of items such as blankets, kitchen sets, jerrycans, sleeping mats and clothes for 75,000 displaced people (IDPs) from Mogadishu in southern and central Somalia.
Submitted by sojra on 11 August, 2009 - 21:06
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL
MEDIA BRIEFING
11 August 2009
Somalia: Amnesty International calls for accountability and safeguards on arms transfers to Somalia?s Transitional Federal Government
Amnesty International today called for urgent safeguards to be applied to any arms transfers to Somalia, in the wake of a reported US government decision to double its arms transfers to Somalia?s Transitional Federal Government (TFG).
Submitted by sojra on 17 April, 2009 - 01:32
MSF PROGRAMMES AND ACTIVITIES IN SOMALIA 2008 – FINAL For many years Somalis have endured violence, displacement, malnutrition and lack of access to adequate health care. Sadly 2008 was no different.
Submitted by sojra on 9 April, 2009 - 08:43
For Somalia, uprising overthrew the central government in 1991 and this caused the disappearance of Somali state from international community. The lack of state attracts foreign ships to catch fish in the Somali waters.
Submitted by sojra on 27 February, 2009 - 07:37
LAST THREE DAYS CONFLICT IN MOGADISHU
Submitted by sojra on 25 February, 2009 - 07:50
International Committee of the Red Cross Press release
24-02-2009
The humanitarian situation in the central region of Galgadud, north of the capital Mogadishu, is among the worst in Somalia: the plight of thousands of displaced people is compounded by severe drought. The ICRC provides more than 100,000 people with shelter, water and medical care.
A population in distress
