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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 334
1 - 7 July 2006


CONTENTS:

ETHIOPIA: More people displaced amid continuing land rows
SOMALIA: Fact-finding mission meets UIC officials
SOMALIA: Islamic courts issue Mogadishu travel guidelines
SOMALIA-SUDAN: Attacks on aid vehicles in Somalia, Sudan
SUDAN: Violence worsens in Darfur IDP camp


ALSO SEE:

HORN OF AFRICA: Thousands of children in need - UNICEF at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54423

SOMALIA: The challenges of change at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54421]


ETHIOPIA: More people displaced amid continuing land rows

Clashes caused by disputes over land ownership between neighbouring 
clans in southern Ethiopia have displaced large numbers of people in the 
region over the past three weeks, aid workers said.

The fighting, which pits members of the Guji community against their 
Borena neighbours, has claimed up to 150 lives and forced tens of 
thousands of people to flee their villages around the towns of Shakiso, 
Arero and Yabello, according to local officials and aid workers.

[Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54362]


SOMALIA: Fact-finding mission meets UIC officials

A joint fact-finding mission, comprising representatives of the European 
Union, African Union, Intergovernmental Authority on Development and the 
Arab League, on Thursday met leaders of the Union of the Islamic Courts 
(UIC), to discuss the situation in Somalia.

The 24-member team is in Somalia to also assess the situation in the 
capital, Mogadishu, ahead of a proposed deployment of regional 
peacekeeping troops.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54441]


SOMALIA: Islamic courts issue Mogadishu travel guidelines

The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which currently controls the Somali 
capital of Mogadishu, has announced new guidelines on travel to the 
city, saying it wants to boost traveler safety.

"The guidelines are to make sure that we provide the necessary 
protection to any visitor," Shaykh Abdulkadir Ali, the vice-chairman of 
the UIC executive council, said on Sunday. "We want to make sure that 
what happened with the Swedish journalist does not happen again."

[Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54363]


SOMALIA-SUDAN: Attacks on aid vehicles in Somalia, Sudan

Armed militias attacked a convoy transporting food aid to southern 
Somalia on Wednesday, sparking a clash with men guarding the trucks in 
which several people reportedly died, sources said.

"There was a shooting involving a transporter contracted to the WFP 
[United Nations World Food Programme] carrying WFP food. We are 
investigating to determine what exactly happened," Peter Smerdon, a 
spokesman for the agency in Nairobi, told IRIN.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54412]


SUDAN: Violence worsens in Darfur IDP camp

Violent attacks have increased in the largest camp for internally 
displaced persons (IDPs) in the troubled western Sudanese Darfur region, 
according to observers.

In Nyala, the capital of South Darfur, an analyst said the security 
situation in nearby Kalma camp had worsened since the signing of the 
Darfur peace deal on 5 May, adding that the worst attacks were taking 
place at night.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=54373]


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