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HORN OF AFRICA
IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-Up 442
16 - 22 August 2008


CONTENTS:

SOMALIA: Fighting forces civilians to flee Kismayo IDP camps
SOMALIA: Ministerial committee discusses food crisis in Somaliland
SOMALIA: Peacekeeping mission extended as parties sign Djibouti peace
   accord
SOMALIA: Five arrested over threats to NGO workers


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SOMALIA: Fighting forces civilians to flee Kismayo IDP camps

Fighting between Islamic insurgents and forces of the local 
administration in Somalia's port city of Kismayo entered a second day on 
21 August, displacing hundreds of families, with dozens killed, sources 
told IRIN.

"Our estimate is that 3,000 families [18,000 people] were displaced by 
the fighting yesterday," Ali Bashi Abdullahi, the head of the Fanole 
Human Rights Organisation, said.

[Full report: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79921]


SOMALIA: Ministerial committee discusses food crisis in Somaliland

A ministerial committee in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of 
Somaliland has started discussions on ways of resolving a food crisis 
worsened by runaway inflation in the country.

"We are here to search for solutions to the recent inflation and the 
food crisis facing the nation this year," Ali Mohamed Waran'adde, the 
civil aviation minister and chairman of the select committee, said at a 
news conference in Hargesia, the region's capital.

[Full report: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79906]


SOMALIA: Peacekeeping mission extended as parties sign Djibouti peace 
accord

After months of on-off talks in Djibouti, representatives of Somalia's 
Transitional Federal Government and a faction of an Eritrea-based 
opposition alliance have signed an agreement to cease hostilities.

At the same time, the United Nations Security Council has extended the 
mandate of the African Union peacekeeping mission in the war-torn 
country.

[Full report: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79903]


SOMALIA: Five arrested over threats to NGO workers

Five people have been arrested in Somalia's self-declared autonomous 
region of Somaliland after they allegedly threatened officials of an NGO 
that carries out de-mining activities.

In one incident on 16 August, four people in a truck forced a vehicle 
carrying officials of Halo Trust off the road.

[Full report: 
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=79874]

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