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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 381
16 - 22 June 2007


CONTENTS:

SOMALIA: Government criticised over NGO raid
SOMALIA: Deteriorating food security in south
SOMALIA: Government moves to boost reconciliation efforts
SUDAN: Continuing violence in West Darfur claims NGO employee
SUDAN: Oxfam pulls out of Gereida, government accepts hybrid force for
   Darfur


Also see:

EAST AFRICA: Human trafficking 'on the rise'
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72856

EAST AFRICA: Accelerating the return of Sudanese refugees
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72839

ETHIOPIA: Taking the malaria battle to rural areas
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72819

SUDAN-UGANDA: Leave us in peace, Maridi residents tell LRA
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72858

SUDAN: Empowering girls to prevent teen pregnancies
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72792


SOMALIA: Government criticised over NGO raid

The Somali government has been criticised after raiding an NGO compound 
in the capital, Mogadishu, with civil society groups saying such actions 
would hamper the work of humanitarian organisations.

"The raid was political and a warning to other civil society 
organisations to toe the government line," said Tony Burns, director of 
operations for SAACID-Australia, a sister organisation of 
SAACID-Somalia, the NGO that was raided on 18 June.

Full report 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72842


SOMALIA: Deteriorating food security in south

The food security and nutrition situation in southern Somalia's Lower 
and Middle Shabelle regions is deteriorating, putting the mainly 
riverine and agro-pastoralist households there at increased risk of 
humanitarian crisis, an early warning agency has said.

The deterioration is due to the cumulative effects of conflict, 
insecurity and civilian displacement within the Shabelle region, "which 
[have] led to stress on host communities with IDP [internally displaced 
persons] influx and sharp inflationary price increases over the last 
three months", the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Security 
Analysis Unit (FSAU), said in a statement.

Full report 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72789


SOMALIA: Government moves to boost reconciliation efforts

The Somali government is to pardon suspected insurgents and release 
those detained in connection with recent fighting in a move to encourage 
national reconciliation, a senior official said.

"The amnesty is intended to allow those who fought the government 
directly or indirectly to come out and participate in the reconciliation 
process," Justice Minister Hassan Dhimbil Warsame told IRIN on 19 June.

Full report
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72812


SUDAN: Continuing violence in West Darfur claims NGO employee

The killing of an employee of the NGO Action by Churches 
Together-Caritas (ACT-Caritas) in West Darfur has brought to five the 
number of people recently killed in Zalingei area, amid continuing 
violence that is hampering aid work across the western Sudanese region.

"This killing follows a spate of attacks in the camps around Zalingei," 
the charity said in a statement on 19 June. "Since the beginning of 
June, five camp residents have been shot and killed, huts have been set 
on fire, people have been beaten, and women assaulted almost daily. Full 
report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72837


SUDAN: Oxfam pulls out of Gereida, government accepts hybrid force for 
Darfur

Oxfam has decided to permanently close down its humanitarian operation 
in the town of Gereida in Sudan's western region of Darfur, citing 
reluctance by authorities there to improve security and stop attacks on 
aid workers.

Oxfam's announcement on 17 June came as a United Nations Security 
Council delegation visited the Sudanese capital, Khartoum, where it 
received the government's reaffirmation of its unconditional agreement 
to the deployment of a hybrid African Union-United Nations peacekeeping 
force in Darfur.

Full report 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72782


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