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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 412
15 - 21 December 2007


CONTENTS:

SOMALIA-YEMEN: Deadly migration to Yemen continues, despite risks
ETHIOPIA-KENYA: FAO forecasts locust swarms in January
SOMALIA: Prime minister to name new, leaner cabinet

SEE ALSO:
SOMALIA: Zeinab Ali - "Every day someone you knew had died"
[http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75935]


SOMALIA-YEMEN: Deadly migration to Yemen continues, despite risks

Somali and Ethiopian migrants continue to set out to Yemen from 
Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, despite the 
deadly risks and warnings from aid agencies, local sources told IRIN on 
21 December.

"As we speak, there is a boat getting ready to depart for Yemen with 
about 200 migrants," said Abdirazaq Omar Osman, a journalist in Bosasso, 
the Puntland commercial capital.

He said the boat would most likely leave on 21 December "if it has not 
already left." A week earlier at least 100 migrants died trying to reach 
Yemen.

[Full report: 
http://www.irinnews.org/PrintReport.aspx?ReportId=75964]


ETHIOPIA-KENYA: FAO forecasts locust swarms in January

Locust swarms are expected in late December and early January in 
northeast Kenya and southeast Ethiopia in November, the UN Food and 
Agriculture Organization has said.

"From mid-December onwards, small swarms are expected to form in 
[Ethiopia's] the Ogaden north of the Sheble [river] and gradually move 
south towards Kenya," the agency said in its latest bulletin, 
forecasting the locust situation in the region until mid-January 2008.

[Full report at:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75936]


SOMALIA: Prime minister to name new, leaner cabinet

Somalia's new prime minister Nur Hassan Hussein has dismissed his 
government just three weeks after its formation in favour of a "small 
but effective cabinet".

Government spokesman Abdi Haji Gobdon told IRIN from the southwestern 
town of Baidao, the temporary seat of parliament, that the new cabinet 
would consist of 18 ministers and five deputy ministers, compared to the 
73 ministers and their deputies in the previous government.

[Full report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=75897]


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