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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 345
23 - 29 September 2006


CONTENTS:

ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: Annan recommends extending UNMEE mandate
ETHIOPIA: Flood water receding
SOMALIA: UIC shuts down radio station and arrests journalists
SOMALIA: Sharp increase in number of refugees entering Kenya
SOMALIA: Lift arms embargo, prime minister says
SUDAN: President reiterates rejection of UN troops in Darfur

Also see:

SUDAN: Living on the streets at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55718


ETHIOPIA-ERITREA: Annan recommends extending UNMEE mandate

The United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has recommended a 
six-month extension to the mandate of the UN Mission in Ethiopia and 
Eritrea (UNMEE), but warned that arrests, detentions and expulsions of 
mission staff by Eritrean authorities were "particularly troubling".

In his latest report to the UN Security Council on Tuesday, Annan warned 
of the potential for disaster if the "untenable" stalemate between the 
two sides was not resolved.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55732]


ETHIOPIA: Flood water receding

The flash floods that hit parts of Ethiopia in August have started 
receding in the north, one of the most heavily affected areas, the 
United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs 
(OCHA) said.

"In South Gondar zone of Amhara Region [north], 16 out of the 21 flooded 
kebeles [zones] in Fogera, Libokemkem and Dembia woredas [districts] 
have completely dried up," said OCHA. "The displaced people from these 
areas have been advised to return to their villages by the local 
authorities," OCHA said in its weekly bulletin on humanitarian issues on 
Monday.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55716]


SOMALIA: UIC shuts down radio station and arrests journalists

The Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), which controls the capital, 
Mogadishu, and much of south-central Somalia, shut down the HornAfrik 
radio sub-station in Kismayo, an official of HornAfrik, based in 
Mogadishu, told IRIN on Friday.

"At around 6:00 PM [local time] yesterday [Thursday], a group of armed 
men from the Islamic courts closed down our sub-station in Kismayo," 
HornAfrik managing partner, Ali Iman Sharmarke, said. "As I am speaking 
to you, the radio is off the air in Kismayo," he added.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55764]


SOMALIA: Sharp increase in number of refugees entering Kenya

Instability in southern Somalia has led to a sharp increase in the 
number of refugees entering Kenya, according to the United Nations 
agency for refugees (UNHCR).

"In a one-week period this month, some 3,400 refugees were registered," 
Emmanuel Nyabera, the UNHCR spokesman, said on Wednesday. Most are 
fleeing the tension in the country "and are coming from as far as 
Mogadishu and Kismayo", he added.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55734]


SOMALIA: Lift arms embargo, prime minister says

Somalia's transitional federal government (TFG) wants an international 
arms embargo against the country lifted to enable it to train security 
forces to protect the government and its citizens.

Reacting to Monday's takeover of the port city of Kismayo by the Union 
of Islamic courts (UIC), Prime Minister Ali Muhammad Gedi told a news 
conference in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, that the UIC's move was an 
act of aggression.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55709]


SUDAN: President reiterates rejection of UN troops in Darfur

Sudanese President Omar El Bashir has reiterated his rejection of a 
proposal to deploy a United Nations peacekeeping mission in Sudan's 
Darfur region to replace the African Union force, saying the world body 
had "an agenda" against his country.

"[The UN] wants to make a pretext through the Darfur issue to control us 
and to recolonise Sudan," Bashir told reporters in the Sudanese capital 
of Khartoum on Sunday.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=55704]


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