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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 449
4 - 10 October 2008


CONTENTS:

ETHIOPIA: Can't eat, won't learn
SOMALIA: Floods add to IDP misery in Lower Shabelle
SOMALIA: NGOs urge international community to protect civilians
SUDAN: Fears of violence as land tensions increase

ALSO SEE:

AFRICA: Wiping out hunger- one fruit fly at a time

[Full Report: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80799]


ETHIOPIA: Can't eat, won't learn

Ethiopia's schools have opened for the new academic year, but severe 
food insecurity in some regions has kept thousands of children out of 
class.

"This time last year we had already enrolled 2,300 students," said 
Solomon Desta, director of Bashiro primary school in Bona district of 
Sidama zone in the Southern region. "Now we have registered 1,800."

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80812]


SOMALIA: Floods add to IDP misery in Lower Shabelle

Thousands of internally displaced persons living in camps in and around 
Somalia's southern port town of Marka have been left without shelter 
after heavy rains pounded the area, officials said.

"We had 10 hours of very heavy rains on Monday that destroyed almost all 
the shelter for the displaced," said Mahamud Dahir, head of the 
humanitarian affairs for Lower Shabelle.

[Full Report: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80834]


SOMALIA: NGOs urge international community to protect civilians

Insecurity, drought and record-high food prices have led to a rapid 
escalation of the humanitarian crisis in Somalia, with some 3.25 million 
people now needing emergency aid, NGOs said.

"We are appalled by the indiscriminate and disproportional use of force 
by all armed parties to the conflict, which is further exacerbating the 
humanitarian crisis," a 6 October statement by 52 national and 
international NGOs said.

[Full Report: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80786]


SUDAN: Fears of violence as land tensions increase

Nimule, a Southern Sudanese town on the border with Uganda, has boomed 
since war ended three years ago, but tension is brewing over land 
between returnees who fled the area years ago and more recent settlers.

"They chased me away," said Cizarina Lindio, who returned after two 
decades only to find people from a different community living on her 
land.

[Full Report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=80789]


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