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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 362
3 - 9 February 2007


CONTENTS:

ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA: Asylum-seekers living rough
SOMALIA: Acute watery diarrhoea claims 39 lives
SOMALIA: Deaths from acute watery diarrhoea, "cholera" reported
SUDAN: Violence continues to limit Darfur aid operations


ETHIOPIA-SOMALIA: Asylum-seekers living rough

An estimated 50,000 asylum-seekers from Somalia have entered 
neighbouring Ethiopia in the past eight months, according to preliminary 
findings of an assessment team from the United Nations High Commissioner 
for Refugees (UNHCR).

"They are in need of food and other emergency supplies," said Millicent 
Mutuli, UNHCR regional spokeswoman, adding that UNHCR would work out an 
assistance plan with the Ethiopian government.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57563]


SOMALIA: Acute watery diarrhoea claims 39 lives

Thirty-nine people have been confirmed dead after an outbreak of acute 
watery diarrhoea in the Hiiraan and Middle Shabelle region, 
south-central Somalia, according to the United Nations World Health 
Organization (WHO).

>From 5 January to 30 January, a total of 312 cases were recorded in the 
Hiiraan region, of whom 34 died, according to WHO Somalia.

[Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57540]


SOMALIA: Deaths from acute watery diarrhoea, "cholera" reported

At least 82 people have died in the past four weeks following an 
outbreak of cholera in the towns of Beletweyne, Buulo Burte and 
Jalalaqsi in the Hiiraan region of central Somalia, medical sources said 
on Monday.

"At least 82 people, 50 of them children, have died of cholera in the 
three districts," said Hassan Odawa, programme manager for the 
International Medical Corps (IMC) in Beletweyne, the regional capital of 
Hiiraan.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57305]


SUDAN: Violence continues to limit Darfur aid operations

Humanitarian operations in the western Sudanese region of Darfur have 
resumed in some areas but security concerns are still restricting 
activities in others, the United Nations Mission in Sudan (UNMIS) said.

Operations had resumed in Khor Abeche in South Darfur and the eastern 
Jebel Marra in North Darfur, and negotiations are going on with a wing 
of the Sudan Liberation Army led by Minni Minnawi on improving access to 
areas controlled by the former rebels in South Darfur.

[Full story at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57564]


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