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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 375
5 - 11 May 2007


CONTENTS:

ETHIOPIA: Locust threat in the east
SOMALIA: Practising medicine in the middle of violence, displacement
   and deprivation
SUDAN-UGANDA: Refugee repatriation to gather pace

Also see:

SOMALIA: National staff, local partners carry the load in a dangerous 
environment at: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72087


ETHIOPIA: Locust threat in the east

A swarm of locusts is likely to infest the eastern part of Ethiopia in 
mid-June, the Desert Locust Control Organization for Eastern Africa 
(DLCO-EA) has warned. Abdurahman Abdulahi, senior research officer at 
DLCO-EA, told IRIN there was a potential threat to the Somali region, 
which shares a border with Somalia.

The regional state had faced a similar desert locust outbreak in Denbel, 
Aisha and Afdem woredas in Shinnile zone in April 2007.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72025]


SOMALIA: Practising medicine in the middle of violence, displacement and 
deprivation

In the midst of Somalia's chaos and violence, mostly in and around the 
capital, Mogadishu, one woman has vowed to make a positive contribution. 
Hawa Abdi is a gynaecologist with a practice in a 26-hectare compound 
that has become a camp for thousands of displaced Mogadishu residents 
fleeing the fighting between Ethiopian-backed government forces and 
insurgents.

Abdi opened her practice - 20km south of Mogadishu - in the 1980s with 
in-patient and out-patient facilities. The civil war began in the 1990s 
and with it the crumbling of her successful practice.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72036]


SUDAN-UGANDA: Refugee repatriation to gather pace

Voluntary repatriation of Southern Sudanese refugees from Uganda is set 
to increase with the introduction of a third corridor of return to 
Eastern Equatoria state in August, the United Nations Refugee Agency, 
UNHCR, said on Wednesday.

Officials from Uganda, South Sudan and the UNHCR met in Kampala and 
agreed that the pace of return should be expedited, despite the 
logistical challenges.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72074]


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