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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 360
20 - 26 January 2007


CONTENTS:

SOMALIA: Risk of worse crisis in the south - early warning agency
RWANDA-SOMALIA: President seeks Kigali's help to foster reconciliation
SUDAN: Thousands flee Darfur attacks
SUDAN: Thousands more flee Darfur attacks


SOMALIA: Risk of worse crisis in the south - early warning agency

The serious humanitarian crisis in Somalia's Lower Juba region could
escalate unless immediate steps are taken to mitigate the effects of
multiple shocks on the pastoralists and agro-pastoralists living there,
an early warning agency warned.

Months of drought followed by heavy flooding in late 2006 created the
crisis, but ongoing conflict in southern Somalia and the suspected
spread of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) from Kenya could exacerbate the
situation, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) said.

[Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57173]


RWANDA-SOMALIA: President seeks Kigali's help to foster reconciliation

Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf is on a visit to Rwanda to learn
from that country's experience in national reconciliation and
reconstruction and to discuss Rwanda's possible intervention to stop the
cycle of violence in the Horn of Africa country, which has been in a
state of civil war since 1991.

At a press briefing on Tuesday in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Yusuf,
who was flanked by his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame, said the time
had come for Somalia to seek the advice and intervention of other
countries in the region to help Somalia in its peacekeeping process and
reconstruction and reconciliation efforts.

[Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57178]


SUDAN: Thousands flee Darfur attacks

Recent attacks on villages in the Sudanese state of West Darfur have
forced up to 5,000 people to flee their homes and seek refuge in two
camps around El Geneina, a nongovernmental organisation working in the
volatile area said.

Medair-Switzerland said about 500 households were reported to have
arrived in Ardamatta Camp, and another 300 in Durti Camp, having fled
their homes with very little during the peak of the cold season.

[Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57179]


SUDAN: Thousands more flee Darfur attacks

Recent attacks on villages in the Sudanese state of West Darfur have
forced up to 5,000 more people to flee their homes and seek refuge in
two camps around El Geneina, a nongovernmental organisation working in
the volatile area said.

Medair-Switzerland said about 500 households were reported to have
arrived in Ardamatta Camp, and another 300 in Durti Camp, having fled
their homes with very little during the peak of the cold season.

[Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57179]


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