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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 356
16 - 22 December 2006


CONTENTS:

DJIBOUTI: Better food security prospects despite poor rains - FEWS Net
SOMALIA: Continuing fighting forces hundreds more to flee homes
SOMALIA: EU to present memorandum to Somali parties
SOMALIA: Puntland trying to stop people smuggling, says official
SUDAN: Largest monthly relocation of aid workers
SUDAN: Agencies seek US$1.8 billion for projects

See Also:

SOMALIA: Grappling with flood-induced challenges at:
[http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56773]


DJIBOUTI: Better food security prospects despite poor rains - FEWS Net

The availability of food for pastoralists in Djibouti next year will be 
adequate despite poor rainfall in the region recently, the Famine Early 
Warning System Network (FEWS Net) has reported.

FEWS Net said the "Heys/Dada" rains - which are essential for the 
viability of coastal dry season grazing areas - performed poorly in 
November.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56818]


SOMALIA: Continuing fighting forces hundreds more to flee homes

The number of people fleeing the southern Somalia towns of Baidoa and 
Buur Hakaba swelled on Thursday as fighting between forces of the 
Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and the Union of Islamic Courts 
(UIC) entered a second day, sources told IRIN.

"Yesterday [Wednesday] we had people coming from the Daynuunay area 
[epicenter of the fighting]. Today, many Buur residents are leaving 
their homes," Mukhtar Atosh, a resident of Buur Hakaba, said. [Full 
story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56806]


SOMALIA: EU to present memorandum to Somali parties

The European Commissioner of Development and Humanitarian Aid, Louis 
Michel, is to press both sides in the Somali conflict "to resume talks 
in order to find a peaceful solution", the European Union has announced.

In a statement issued on Tuesday, the EU said Michel, who is expected to 
travel to Somalia, would present a memorandum of understanding to 
Somalia's adversaries, the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC) and the 
Transitional Federal Government (TFG), in a bid to prevent an escalation 
of the conflict.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56786]


SOMALIA: Puntland trying to stop people smuggling, says official

Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland is doing all it 
can to stop people smuggling, the governor of Bari region said on Monday 
from Bosasso, the region's commercial capital.

"We have set up a special taskforce to deal with this problem," Governor 
Muse Ghelle said. "We have made some arrests of smugglers and 
confiscated a number of boats and trucks used to ferry people." [Full 
story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56772]


SUDAN: Largest monthly relocation of aid workers

More aid workers have been relocated in western Sudanese region of 
Darfur following Monday's attack on Gereida, South Darfur State, 
bringing the numbers of humanitarian staff moved in December to a record 
400, the United Nations said.

The relocations are the highest in one month since a large-scale 
humanitarian operation in Darfur began in 2004. Gereida has the largest 
number of displaced people - 130,000 - in the region.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56796]


SUDAN: Agencies seek US$1.8 billion for projects

Humanitarian, recovery and development projects in Sudan will require at 
least US $1.8 billion in 2007, according to a work plan unveiled by the 
United Nations, NGOs and the Sudanese government on Tuesday.

Most of the funds - $1.26 billion - are for humanitarian activities for 
large numbers of people still in considerable need, with nearly half the 
amount dedicated to the war-torn western region of Darfur.

[Full story 
at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56783]


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