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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 447
20 - 26 September 2008


CONTENTS:

SOMALIA: Hospitals "swamped" as clashes continue
SUDAN: Mounting criticism against govt for crackdown after rebel attack
SOMALIA: Hundreds affected by diarrhoea in north
SUDAN: Eye disease rampant in the south - study

ALSO SEE:

GLOBAL: Govts urged to recognise the right to affordable food
[Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80549]

GLOBAL: Charity coffers face credit crunch
[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80602]



SOMALIA: Hospitals "swamped" as clashes continue

The main hospital in Mogadishu is overwhelmed by the number of injured 
people seeking treatment since fighting in the capital intensified, 
medical sources told IRIN.

"We are receiving more injured people than we can reasonably handle; we 
are completely swamped," Abdi Mohamed Hangul, a doctor at Medina 
Hospital, said.

[Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80567

Also see: Mogadishu rocked by "worst shelling yet" 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80542]


SUDAN: Mounting criticism against govt for crackdown after rebel attack

Fresh accusations of large-scale summary executions and arbitrary arrest 
have been levelled against Sudan's government over its reaction to an 
attack by Darfur rebels on Khartoum in May - charges the government has 
rejected.

"It is estimated that at least 500 individuals from Darfur, both 
civilians and presumed JEM [Justice and Equality Movement] combatants, 
were summarily executed or extra-judicially killed in the three days 
that followed JEM's attack against Omdurman on 10 May 2008," the Darfur 
Relief and Documentation Centre (DRDC), an NGO based in Geneva, said in 
a report released mid-September.

[Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80533]


SOMALIA: Hundreds affected by diarrhoea in north

Authorities in Burao in the self-declared republic of Somaliland are 
struggling to contain an outbreak of watery diarrhoea, medical sources 
said on 22 September.

"The outbreak began on 13 September and so far we have registered 261 
cases and no fatalities," Adan Ilmi Diriye, the regional medical 
officer, told IRIN.

[Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80517]


SUDAN: Eye disease rampant in the south - study

A large number of people living in Ayod County, Jonglei State, Southern 
Sudan, are suffering from severe trachoma and measures need to be taken 
to contain the disease, according to a recent study.

"At least one person with clinical signs of trachoma was found in nearly 
every household, and one in three households had a person with severe 
blinding trachoma," said the findings of the study, The Burden of 
Trachoma in Ayod County of Southern Sudan.

[Full Report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80569]


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