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- Somalia Border Tensions - Women & Girls
Girls walking
home after school in Hagadera, near the Somalian border. Kenya is widely seen
as a frontline state against the Islamist extremism smoldering across the Horn
of Africa.
Photo: Dominic Nahr for The New York Times
Full Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/world/africa/22shabab.html
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Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
Somalia: Massive Displacement & Increasing Humanitarian
Need
According to UNHCR, 204,000 people have been displaced since early May by the
escalating conflict in Mogadishu, in the biggest exodus from the Somali capital
since the Ethiopian intervention of 2007. An eight-week offensive by Al-Shabab
and Hisb-ul-Islam militia against government forces has caused the displacement.
While many people have fled 30 kilometres west to Afgooye, which already hosts
more than 400,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), the majority are now
heading further afield to the Lower and Middle Shabelle, Galgaduud, Bay and
Lower Juba regions. According to UNHCR, estimates place the number of IDPs in
Somalia at more than 1.2 million.
Meanwhile, IRIN has reported that conditions for nearly 29,000 IDPs who fled
from Mogadishu to Kismayo are deteriorating due
to a continuing lack of assistance. The World Food Programme delivered food
until six months ago to 36,000 IDPs, but had to suspend operations following
the deaths of four employees. The agency is still seeking security commitments
before resuming operations.
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http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0507/p06s15-woaf.html
Somali Insurgency Driving Thousands of Refugees to Kenya
Two
decades of chaos have swelled the Kenyan camps into the world's largest refugee
settlement, sheltering 271,000 people on sun-scorched land that was meant to
hold only one-third that many.
Amid
shortages of food, water, health supplies, and clean latrines, aid workers say
that the refugees are increasingly vulnerable to outbreaks of disease.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8161967.stm
Kenya Boosts Somali Border Force
21 July 2009
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