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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 400
22 - 29 September 2007


CONTENTS:

SOMALIA: Government halts IDP evictions
SOMALIA: Plea for help as locusts invade Puntland
UGANDA-SUDAN: Two-track strategy the best option to ending LRA
   rebellion - ICG

See also:
SOMALIA: Malnutrition stalks once fertile region at:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74520


SOMALIA: Government halts IDP evictions

The Somali government has stopped evicting internally displaced persons 
(IDPs) from government buildings, in a bid to stem displacement in the 
capital, Mogadishu, an official told IRIN on 26 September.

Dahir Mohamed Burale, the commissioner of the National Refugee 
Commission of Somalia (NRCS), said it had convinced the government it 
should provide alternative accommodation for the IDPs before evicting 
them.

[Full report at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74498]


SOMALIA: Plea for help as locusts invade Puntland

Authorities in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland in 
the northeast have appealed for international aid following the loss of 
thousands of hectares of pasture and farmland to a locust infestation.

"We issued an appeal for help on 23 September; Puntland alone cannot 
deal with this," Hassan Arab, the deputy minister of rangeland and 
forestry, told IRIN on 25 September.

[Full report at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=74474]


UGANDA-SUDAN: Two-track strategy the best option to ending LRA rebellion 
- ICG

A two-track strategy - strengthening the peace negotiations between the 
government and the rebel Lord's Resistance Army and long-term 
redevelopment of northern Uganda - is the best approach to ending the 
decades-long conflict, the International Crisis Group has said.

In its latest report, Northern Uganda's Peace Process: The Need to 
Maintain Momentum, the organisation said the talks between the Ugandan 
government and the LRA being held in Juba, the capital of Southern 
Sudan, were moving in the right direction but core issues, such as 
justice, security and livelihoods, remained unresolved and required 
"difficult" decisions.

[Full report at: 
http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportId=74499]


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