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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 398
8 - 14 September 2007


CONTENTS:

SOMALIA: Call to help neglected IDPs
SOMALIA: UN staff member killed
SOMALIA: Numbers of IDPs overwhelming border town
SUDAN: Darfur rebels accuse government of bombing their positions


SOMALIA: Call to help neglected IDPs

Civil society organisations in Somalia have urged aid agencies to help 
at least 2,500 displaced families who have sought refuge in the northern 
outskirts of the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

"We are appealing to the aid agencies operating in the country, 
particularly to the United Nations, to come to the assistance of these 
people," Madina Mahamud Ilmi, the deputy head of a civil society 
taskforce for the displaced, told IRIN on 13 September by telephone from 
Mogadishu.

Full report 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74275


SOMALIA: UN staff member killed

Unknown assailants shot and killed a local employee of the UN World 
Health Organization (WHO) in the Abudwak district of Galgadud, central 
Somalia, on 11 September, officials said.

Farah Warsame Diriye, 37, an officer with the WHO's polio programme, was 
on his way to inspect a polio campaign in the eastern part of Abudwak 
when his vehicle was ambushed, said Abdirizak Hassan Awl, the district 
commissioner.

Full report 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74249


SOMALIA: Numbers of IDPs overwhelming border town

At least 8,000 Somalis who fled violence in the capital, Mogadishu, are 
facing hunger, disease and lack of shelter in Dobley town, near the 
Kenyan border, local officials said.

"Our estimate is that since the end of April, between 5,000 and 8,000 
have arrived in Dobley," Ali Hussein Nur, the district commissioner, 
told IRIN. Households in the small town, he added, were hosting two to 
three displaced families each.

Full report 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74227


SUDAN: Darfur rebels accuse government of bombing their positions

Darfur rebels have accused Sudanese government forces of bombing 
Haskanita, a rebel-held town in North Darfur, just days after UN 
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Khartoum had agreed to end attacks in 
the region.

Abu Bakr Kado, a commander with a faction of the Sudan Liberation 
Movement (SLM-Unity), said government forces launched an air and ground 
assault on the town on 10 September, without giving details of 
casualties.

Full report 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74223


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