Newsletter on UK development in Somalia Issue No. 2 March 2010

Source: United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID)

Date: 25 Feb 2010

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It has been a busy six months for the DFID Somalia programme, with our funding increasing to over £23m for 2009/10. Our engagement with civil society has also increased. And we provided £9.5 million to deliver humanitarian relief to the most vulnerable. We continue to seek ways to improve access to health and education for all Somalis. We are designing a new health programme to deliver emergency health care to women and children across Somalia, and support improved delivery of health services by the Somali authorities. We are also building on previous work to increase jobs for young people, make it easier to do business in Somalia, and improve governance. 

We were delighted that so many UK Somali diaspora groups actively participated in the launch events of the new DFID-funded Common Ground Initiative set up to fund diaspora projects in Africa. Applications are currently being considered.

Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin Issue # 8 19-26 February 2010

Key Overall Developments

Conflict and Displacement

Cross-border movements

UNHCR Kenya reported that camps in Dadaab continue to experience an influx of new arrivals from Somalia.
Since January, 7,479 Somali refugees have been registered in the camps. This week, approximately 1,000
Somalis were registered. As of 19 February, the overall population in Dadaab stood at 262,838 people.
During the reporting period, UNHCR Ethiopia reported that a second refugee camp in Ethiopia's Somali region
was opened to accommodate the influx of asylum seekers. An estimated 60,000 Somali refugees are hosted in
four camps (Au-Barre, Boqolomayo, Kebribeyah and Sheder) along the Ethiopian/Somali border. Currently, an
average of 200 Somali asylum seekers have been arriving in Ethiopia each day.

Mogadishu

As conflict continued in Mogadishu, UNHCR estimates that a total of 22,300 people have been displaced from
the city since 1 February, with 16,300 fleeing the town and another 6,000 displaced in the various districts within
Mogadishu. Yaaqshiid, Heliwa and Wardhiigleey are the districts in Mogadishu experiencing the most
displacement.
With tensions building up in Mogadishu and the Afgooye Corridor, the humanitarian community, led by OCHA,
has prepared Cluster contingency plans in case of increased displacement. In a worst-case scenario, some
218,000 people could be displaced from and within Mogadishu in the next three months.

Dobley, Lower Juba region

Displacement of civilians was reported in the past week, following conflict between Hisbul Islam and Al
Shabaab in Dobley and Afmadow districts. The exact number of people displaced could not be established, but
field reports estimate that 2,000 people have crossed into Kenya from Dobley.

IDP returns in Central regions

Following instability in Dhuusamarreeb, Galgaduud region and Belet Weyne, Hiraan region, at the beginning of
the year, field reports indicate that unconfirmed numbers of civilians are returning to their homes. In Hiraan, it is
estimated that 30 percent of the 23,000 people displaced have returned. In Dhuusamarreeb, 29,000 people
were displaced, but the number of returns is unknown. The security in both regions remains tense and
unpredictable.

Explosion injures six children in Central Somalia

On 19 February, an explosion reportedly caused by a hand grenade, killed one child and injured three others in
Marergur village in Dhuusamarreeb district, Galgaduud region. The injured children were treated at the
Dhuusamarreeb hospital.

Incidents against humanitarian organisations

Hijacking and looting of food aid
On 23 February, 50 armed people hijacked and looted a food aid truck containing 24 metric tons of WFP maize
in Gaalkacyo, Mudug region. The food was off-loaded in a residential area in Galkaacyo town and the truck

released. It is currently at a local police station.

Response

Food Aid
During the week, WFP delivered 4,000 metric tons of assorted food commodities to Central Somalia from the
Berbera port, northern Somalia, using the North-South corridor opened four weeks ago. A test delivery of 300
metric tons of food conducted during the first week of February demonstrated that the North-South corridor
could be an efficient alternate delivery route to the Mogadishu-Gaalkacyo corridor, which has become
increasingly unsafe. WFP food convoys came under sustained threats on the South-Central corridor as they
passed through Islamist controlled areas in Southern Somalia. The deliveries from the Berbera port, which on
average take two to three days, have boosted WFP's effort to provide timely food assistance to thousands of
drought affected households in the Central regions.
WFP and partners in Puntland distributed 31 metric tons of assorted food commodities to 3,341 beneficiaries
under the institutional feeding programmes reaching Tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS patients and Maternal Child Health
Nutrition Centres (MHCN). Meanwhile, a meeting between WFP and the Ministry of Health in Puntland
discussed the possibility of increasing the number of MHCN centres to ten from the five currently operational.
WFP also met with OCHA and discussed the current situation of IDPs in Bossaso, including the recent
relocation of Tawakal IDPs by the Government. WFP conducted the monitoring of emergency school feeding
programmes covering 17 schools in Sanaag region.

Water Sanitation & Hygiene
This week, CARE International completed the rehabilitation of the boreholes in Burtinle and Buuhoodle,
Togdheer region, which are expected to alleviate severe water shortages amongst large pastoral populations in
the area. A WASH expert recommended the establishment of more permanent water sources and the sinking of
at least two more boreholes in the large area to cater for the high demand for water. Some 15,000 rural and
pastoral families will benefit from the rehabilitated borehole in Buuhoodle.

Education
During the reporting period, UNICEF, through partners, supported education emergency interventions in the
Afgooye Corridor and south Mudug region. Teaching and learning materials were distributed to 7,367 children,
including 3,000 girls in 40 conflict affected schools. The supplies are essential for the continuity of education in
these areas.

Contact: For further information in English, contact: Rita Maingi on +254 734 800 120 – maingir@un.org In Somali or
English, contact Muna Mohamed on + 254 733 643 737 – mohamed26@un.org

Ade Sheikdon Negeye, "Having leprosy has worsened my displacement"

BELETWEYNE, 24 February 2010 (IRIN) - Displaced and ostracized, his drug supply cut off because of conflict, Ade Sheikdon Negeye, a resident of the town of Beletweyne in central Somalia, is caught up in a cycle of suffering. He is one of 49 leprosy patients displaced from the town when fighting between two Islamist groups intensified in early February in Hiran region, central Somalia. He spoke to IRIN about his plight: 

"Like many other patients, my life is in danger because it is now very difficult for us to access drugs or to be treated like other human beings deserving of human rights.

"But even before I got displaced, I had been without medication because aid agencies that used to supply the drugs pulled out of the region six months ago, citing insecurity.

"People with leprosy are more affected by the weather than other displaced people because the intense heat during the day and the extreme cold at night causes our wounds to fester and the skin to crack.

"Since we fled our homes we have suffered so much; our skin is damaged and cracked and, even worse, getting food has become even more difficult.

"In Beletweyne, most of us depended on well-wishers to give us food, ordinary people even helped provide bread, but here in the countryside, where we thought we had escaped fighting, our lives have become worse because people run away from us. There is this myth that people with leprosy eat human flesh; the isolation we are facing is amazing.

"The most unforgettable and heartbreaking thing is the deadly isolation; everybody we come close to runs away; even drivers we asked to help us flee Beletweyne could not - other passengers would shout at them to move on whenever we flagged down a car. This has forced many of us to trek on foot for long distances.

"For me the trekking was terrible, I kept dragging my feet until I was bleeding all over, my limbs looked like raw meat.

"One day, my family told me I could no longer sit with them under one shelter and that I could no longer sleep in the same hut as them. They dragged me out, far away from them. Since then, I have moved from trouble to trouble.

"Everywhere I go, fingers are pointed at me as if I am a criminal. I have identified one tree under which I sit when no one is around; I have made it my home since I can't rejoin my family. My people [Somalis], unsurprisingly, believe that any person suffering from this disease is a man-eater; I think this is why everyone runs away from me."

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Dowladda wadanka Jarmalka oo lacago ugu deeqday qaxootiga Soomaaliyeed ee ku sugan dalka Jabuuti kadib wadahadal dhexmaray Jabuuti iyo Jarmalka

(Shabelle: MUQDISHO)Dowladda wadanka Jarmalka ayaa lacago ugu deeqday qaxootiga Soomaaliyeed ee ku sugan dalka Jabuuti kadib markii wadahadal dhexmaray wasiirada arimaha dibada ee Jabuuti iyo Jarmalka.

Wasiirka arimaha dibada wadanka Jarmalka ninka lagu magacaabo Westerwelle oo magaalada Jabuuti ee dalka Jabuuti kula kulamay wasiirka arimaha dibada reer Jabuuti Max’uud Cali Yuusuf ayaa waxaa uu sheegay in dowladda Jarmalka ay ku tabarucday aduun lacageed oo gaaray 120 kun oo Yurowga ah taasoo uu sheegay in loogu talagalay taageerida dhinaca Caafimaadka iyo waxbarashada qaxootiga Soomaaliyeed ee ku sugan dalka Jabuuti.

Mr. Westerwelle ayaa waxaa uu sheegay in dalka Jarmalka uu ka mid yahay dalalka reer Yurub ee ka qeyb qaadanaya taageerida tababarka ciidamada booliska dowladda KMG ee Soomaaliya isagoo sheegay in arintaani ay tahay talaabo hormarleh oo bilow ah u noqon doonto taageerada kaga timid dhinaca wadanka Jarmalka, waxaana uu sheegay sidoo kale in ay safaarad ka furan doonaan dalka Jabuuti oo iyana ay taageeri doonaan shacabka reer Jabuuti.

Dhinaca kale Wasiirka arimaha dibada wadanka Jarmalka Westerwelle ayaa dhigiisa dalka Jabuuti Max’ed Cali Yuusuf waxaa uu kala hadlay sidii ay isaga kaashan lahaayeen la dagaalanka burcad badeeda Soomaalida oo uu sheegay in dhibaatooyin fara badan ay ku hayaan Maraakiibta isticmaasha xeebaha gacanka cadan.

Dalalka Jabuuti iyo Jarmalka ayaa waxaa ay yihiin wadamo si aad ah u taageersan dowladda KMG ee Soomaaliya, waxaana taageerida wdanka Jarmalka ka soo baxday ay u muuqanaysaa in ay qeyb ka tahay balan qaadkii horay ay u sameeyeen oo ahaa in ay is bar bar aagi doonaan shacabka Soomaaliyeed iyo waliba dowladda KMG ee Soomaaliya.

Dibadbax looga cabanayo biyo la’aan baahsan oo maanta dad barakacayaal ah ay ka dhigeen deegaanka Lafoole degmada Afgooye ee gobolka Sh/hoose

(Shabelle: AFGOOYE)  Dibadbaxyo xoogan oo looga cabanayay biyo la’aan baahsan oo xiligaan heysata Barakacayaasha Muqdisho ayaa maanta waxaa ay ka dhaceen deegaanka Lafoole ee degmada Afgooye.

Banaanbaxaani looga cabanayay biyo la’aanta ka jirta kaamamka Barakacayaasha eek u yaala deegaankaasi ayaa waxaa ka qeyb qadanayay boqolaal dadweyne ah oo isugu jiray haween iyo Caruur.

Qoysaskaani barakacayaasha ee banaanbaxa dhigayay ayaa xiligii ay ka soo barakaceen Magaalada Muqdisho waxaa biyaha ay isticmaali jireen xiligaasi siin jiray hay’adda MSF taasoo bilooyin ka hor sheegtay in ay joojisay biyihii ay ka waday inta u dhaxeysa Muqdisho iyo Afgooye.

Marwo Cabdiyo Cabdi Khaliif oo ka mid aheeyd Haweenkii ka soo qeyb galay banaanbixii maanta ka dhacay inta u dhaxeysa Muqdisho iyo Afgooye gaar ahaan deegaanka Lafoole ayaa sheegtay in ay u taaganyihiin banaanbax ay kaga cabanayaan biyo la’aan baahsan oo soo wajahday,waxaana ay xustay in ay ka koobanyihiin dadka banaanbaxa dhigayay ilaa 12 kaam.

Waxaa ay ka codsadeen banaanbayaasha hay’adaha samafalka iyo cid kasta oo wax u tari karta in ay biyo la soo gaaraan maadaama sida ay sheegeen aanay heysan biyo xitaa ay suuliga ku isticmaalaan.

Dibadbaxaani ka dhacay deegaanka Lafoole ee gobolka Sh/hoose ayaa waxaa hadalo ka soo jeediyay C/laahi salad Xasan (wadaad Yare) oo isagu ka mid ah odayaasha iyo waxgaradka deegaanka lafoole waxaana uu xusay in dadkaani ay u baahanyihiin in lala soo gaaro gar gaar dhinac biyaha ah.

Businesses should play bigger role in relief work - study

Written by: Olesya Dmitracova

LONDON (AlertNet) - Businesses should be encouraged to play a more active role in humanitarian aid efforts as they offer an array of skills and a desire to help that have barely been tapped, a report by the World Economic Forum said.

Aid workers are having to respond to more frequent and increasingly complex emergencies as a result of the global recession, climate change and the pressure a growing population is putting on natural resources, according to the study by the Forum's council on humanitarian assistance, which was presented in London on Monday.

To cope with this workload, the aid sector needs a new "business model" and "to engage the private sector more fully, not just as a source of donations but also as a source of key skills and technologies, during and after crises", the report said.

In December, John Holmes, the U.N. Emergency Relief Coordinator, said the humanitarian community should scale up its partnership with private companies that can deliver aid "better and cheaper" and respect humanitarian principles.

The private sector already contributes free of charge to aid work in disasters. For example, pharmaceutical companies have been donating medicines for many years, while three of the world's largest logistics firms - Agility, TNT and UPS - have together offered their services for relief in all of the major crises since 2008.

There are similar opportunities for businesses in other sectors as well: retailers could supply household goods and media companies could arrange communication with affected people, the study said.

"WANTING TO HELP"

More should also be made of private enterprises' genuine desire to help, said one of the report's authors, Simon Maxwell. Many in the aid community have long been suspicious of the motives of private firms seeking to assist in relief efforts.

"The only reason business engages in anything philanthropic is because they see a long-term profit in it - I don't buy that," he told an audience of aid workers, academics and journalists.

"In the particular case of humanitarian disasters ... an awful lot of it is simply wanting to help because people are affected by what they see on television."

Businesses also engage in philanthropy, he added, because it helps their relations with local people and improves their chances of attracting bright graduates who tend to care whether the company they are going to work for is socially responsible. It may also contribute to good relations with overseas officials in charge of renewing or overseeing their licence to operate in a particular country, Maxwell said.

The challenge is to encourage the private sector to participate equally in "popular emergencies" such as the 2004 Asian tsunami and "unpopular emergencies" such as the humanitarian crisis in Somalia, he added.

Another aim is to make sure businesses maintain their support in protracted crises once media attention has waned as well as in difficult or dangerous environments.

"When it's not making headlines, tax breaks for sustained engagement, for working in disaster prevention and so on may be one of the best things that could be done," the report's co-author Dan Smith said.

The private sector can also help by investing responsibly to promote economic development in a country or a community so that it is better equipped to deal with a natural disaster or to resolve conflicts, the report said.

Nearly 20,000 Somalis have fled capital so far this month, UN reports

19 February 2010 – Nearly 20,000 people have been uprooted from their homes in the Somali capital by renewed clashes between the forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and opposition groups since the start of February, the United Nations refugee agency reported today.


Earlier this week, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) expressed its alarm at the toll the fighting has taken on civilians, with at least 50 reportedly having been killed and over 100 others injured.

Over half of the internally displaced persons (IDPs) have managed to escape Mogadishu, while others are stranded in relatively safer areas of the capital.
The agency started distributing non-food items – blankets, plastic sheeting, sleeping mats and kitchen sets – to 18,000 uprooted people in villages surrounding the town of Dhuusamarreeb, in central Somalia, where close to 30,000 people were forced from their homes by violence at the end of last month.


Earlier this week, UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden expressed grave concern at the latest surge in clashes in Mogadishu, noting that “civilians continue to bear the brunt of conflict and insecurity in the country.”


The worst of the latest fighting between Government forces and al-Shabaab militiamen is reported to have occurred on 10 February, when 24 people died and nearly 160 others had to be hospitalized with war-related injuries.


The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has revised upwards the number of people it is assisting from 2.5 million to 2.8 million, but is slightly reducing the volume of food distributions based on improving assessments of the overall food security situation in the impoverished Horn of Africa nation.


For its part, the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) is working with the Ministry of Health in the semi-autonomous Puntland region on an immunization scheme for 3,200 children under the age of one in the town of Bossaso.


It is also providing plumpy nut, a ready-to-eat formula to prevent acute malnutrition of vulnerable children, to over 300 children in 10 sites, including settlements for IDPs in Bossaso.

Source: UN News Center

Bumper harvest highlights need to help Somali farmers help themselves

Written by: Frank NyakairuNAIROBI (AlertNet) - In war-torn Somalia, daily life is a struggle for the 40 percent of the population who rely on humanitarian aid to survive, but in recent months green shoots have started to emerge.

Good rains have boosted food production, reducing the number of people dependent on handouts, and meat exports are picking up after Saudi Arabia lifted a long-standing ban. Experts say a little more support for farmers could go a long way towards easing the country's hunger crisis.

Since August, the number of Somalis in need of aid has fallen from 3.76 million, about half the population, to 3.2 million, the U.N.'s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) said in a report this month.

"The reason we have seen a drop in the population in crisis is because of the good harvest in the south over the last six months," said Grainne Moloney, FSNAU's acting chief technical advisor. "It's over 250 percent of the harvest last year and about 150 percent of the harvest in the last five years."

Decent October-to-December 'deyr' rains resulted in a bumper season for sorghum - which accounts for three-quarters of cereal production - as well as cash crops including sesame, vegetables, fruits, groundnuts and bananas.

This helped cut the proportion of the rural population in crisis in the south - which is mostly under the control of the hardline al Shabaab insurgent group - by 15 percent, the FSNAU says.

BEYOND FOOD AID

Somali agricultural consultant Ali Doy, who has worked with the United Nations, warns that focusing exclusively on emergency food aid risks selling subsistence farmers short.

"People, especially in the countryside, which is not as insecure as urban centres, don't need food aid. They need better ways to fight drought and better seeds, but the problem is few aid agencies are doing that now," he told AlertNet.

Anarchy since the 1991 overthrow of dictator Mohamed Siad Barre has hampered exploitation of Somalia's rich agricultural land for nearly two decades. Doy said farmers lack equipment and knowledge, even though some have the determination to keep producing food amid conflict and poor rains.

Fighting has killed 21,000 Somalis since the start of 2007 and driven 1.5 million from their homes, while large parts of the country have been afflicted by drought.

FSNAU's Moloney agrees that aid agencies should expand their work beyond providing emergency food aid.

"We need to look at parallel interventions and support Somalia's farming communities with irrigation and better farming methods to be able to support half (the) population," she said.

Blighted by what the United Nations described as the worst drought in 20 years, Somalia's canal-based irrigation system lies in ruins. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation has spent $2 million repairing 200 kilometres of canals, but says more support is needed.

"Rehabilitating Somalia's canal system will go a long way to help farmer grow more food especially in dry areas in Hiran and central Somalia," said Sergio Innocente, an agriculture expert with the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO).

Populations in Hiran and other central Somali regions that have received less rainfall remain mired in crisis, with around 70 percent of the population still in need of aid, according to the FSNAU report.

MIDDLE EAST MARKET

Further north, there are signs of improvement in the livestock sector. The Horn of Africa nation sits on an ancient trade crossing, and farmers have once again started exporting cattle, sheep and goats to the Gulf states, after Saudi Arabia lifted a nine-year ban on imports from Somalia.

Originally imposed due to concerns about a lack of health screening in the failed state, Riyadh eased the restrictions in November to secure meat supplies for haj pilgrims.

"We expect to have improved terms of trade for Somalia as we are noticing increasing exports of livestock, which in the medium term will trickle down to the households," said FAO livestock expert Massimo Castiello.

Between 60 and 70 percent of Somalis live in communities that keep livestock, according to the FAO. Yet despite the new income opportunity presented by Saudi Arabia, formerly the biggest buyer of Somali livestock, Moloney said exports have received little support.

"We need to do restocking in some pastoral communities to be able to help the Somali community take advantage of the availability of livestock markets in the Middle East," she said.

FAO's Castiello said Somalia's economy could be further boosted by providing communities with veterinary services and access to water for their animals.

While the war-torn country is a long way from stability and many Somalis continue to live in desperate conditions, the recent rise in meat exports and crop production suggest that neglecting farmers is shortsighted.

"Agriculture remains an overlooked emergency that deserves much more attention," said consultant Doy.

U.N. Criticizes U.S. Restrictions on Aid for Somalia

By JEFFREY GETTLEMAN

Published: February 17, 2010

NAIROBI, Kenya — United Nations officials intensified their criticism of the American government on Wednesday, saying that Washington was imposing "impossible" conditions on aid deliveries for Somalia and holding up tens of millions of dollars of desperately needed food based on unfounded accusations that it would be diverted to terrorists.

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Somali children, displaced from their homes, received food at an aid distribution center in the capital, Mogadishu, on Tuesday.

The American government has said that aid agencies receiving American money must ensure that their contractors do not divert money or aid to the Shabab, a Somali insurgent group that the American government has designated a foreign terrorist group.

But Mark Bowden, the United Nations official in charge of humanitarian operations in Somalia, said the accusations of aid diversions to the Shabab were "ungrounded."
"What we are seeing is a politicization of humanitarian issues," he said, adding that when he recently went to Washington to discuss the matter with American aid officials, "the comment we met was, 'This is beyond our pay grade.' "
When the issue first came up last year, American officials said they were simply following United States law and trying to prevent terrorists from profiting from American aid. Whether this is actually happening in Somalia is not yet clear. One internal United Nations audit found no wrongdoing, while preliminary results from a more independent investigation have indicated that some United Nations contractors may be diverting American-donated food to the Shabab and their allies, who then sell it to buy guns.
On Wednesday, one American official shot back: "We wouldn't have reacted this way if the allegations were ungrounded. There is a body of evidence here."
The American official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter but was clearly irritated by Mr. Bowden's comments, added, "We're going to have to talk to him."
Later, Tommy Vietor, a White House spokesman, said, "The actions of Al Shabab and other violent extremists are what's denying Somalis urgently needed humanitarian aid."
In early January, the United Nations World Food Program pulled out of Shabab areas, citing threats to its staff, though several other aid agencies continue to work in Shabab-controlled territory.
The fight over American aid is clearly just one of many serious problems in Somalia. United Nations officials described a nation racked by drought, suicide bombings and clan tensions. Three million Somalis — nearly half the population — need emergency help, and even the African Union peacekeepers have been accused of carelessly killing civilians.
Mr. Bowden said United Nations officials had recently complained to the African Union about barrages of "indiscriminate shelling" that have killed dozens of people.
The 5,000 African Union peacekeepers in Somalia are about the only thing preventing the weak transitional government from collapsing. But the peacekeepers often come under attack by the Shabab and other insurgents. In recent weeks, the peacekeepers have responded by firing artillery shells in the direction of where the enemy fire has come from, even if that means bombarding urban neighborhoods.
"Our gunners are very accurate," said Felix M. Kulayigye, a spokesman for the Ugandan military, whose troops make up the bulk of the peacekeepers. "If a mortar shell comes from a particular direction, that is the direction we will fire."
He said that the allegations of indiscriminate shelling from aid groups like Doctors Without Borders were "propaganda" and that it was wrong for United Nations officials to criticize the peacekeepers.
"These men and women are on the firing line, and they have gone where the U.N. refuses to go," Mr. Kulayigye said, referring to the fact that despite repeated requests from the Somali government, the United Nations has shied away from sending its own peacekeepers into Somalia.
Instead, the recent focus of United Nations officials has been stepping up efforts to deliver aid in anticipation of a major offensive by Somali and African Union troops, which could begin in the coming weeks or months and is intended to drive the Shabab out of Mogadishu, the capital.
But the American restrictions on aid remain one of the biggest challenges to helping Somalia's beleaguered population, in the eyes of many United Nations officials and aid workers.
Last year, the American government provided less than half of what it did in 2008 for Somalia aid operations partly because United Nations agencies and private aid groups refused to sign an agreement to police the distribution of aid more closely, contending that it would make deliveries nearly impossible.
That dispute is still "dragging on," Mr. Bowden said, though the government has resumed some donations to Somalia, including $15 million of food this month.
According to a draft of the new aid conditions, which was provided to The New York Times on Wednesday, the American government is demanding that aid agencies receiving American money cannot pay "fees at roadblocks, ports, warehouses, airfields or other transit points" controlled by the Shabab.
The problem is, more than half of south-central Somalia is controlled by the Shabab or their allies, who often set up roadblocks and charge money for goods to pass. In many places, the Shabab are the only local administration.
The new rules call for aid workers, including local Somalis, to tell American administrators when any aid unintentionally slips into the Shabab's hands.
"That could make us and our people look like spies," one aid worker said on condition of anonymity. "It's totally unacceptable."

Jeff Zeleny contributed reporting from Washington.

Source: newyorktimes

Weekly Humanitarian Bulletin Issue # 7 12-19 February 2010

Issue # 7    12-19 February 2010

Key Overall Developments

Concern over civilian casualties in Mogadishu

The UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, expressed grave concern about the latest civilian

casualties and displacement in Mogadishu as a result of recent fighting. In a press statement issued on 15

February, Mr. Bowden said, "I am alarmed by the large number of casualties emanating from recent fighting in

Mogadishu over the last two weeks. Civilians continue to bear the brunt of conflict and insecurity in the country."

Mr. Bowden believes that the high number of civilian casualties and continuing displacement in Mogadishu

suggests the indiscriminate and disproportionate use of force against civilians by all parties to the conflict. Mr.

Bowden appealed to all parties to the conflict to protect civilians and to minimize the risks to civilians by

respecting and implementing their obligations under International Humanitarian Law.

During the reporting period, UNHCR continued to record high numbers of Somalis being displaced from

Mogadishu. Approximately 19,400 people have been displaced since 1 February.

Press Briefing

On 17 February, the UN humanitarian agencies held an informal press session with key international media

houses based in Nairobi. Media interest was primarily focused on two key issues: funding constraint and

indiscriminate shelling of civilians. The Humanitarian Coordinator took the opportunity to stress the urgent need

to secure donor funding to assist 3.2 million Somalis.

Assets seized from aid organisations in Baidoa and Waajid

During the reporting period, the Al Shabaab administration seized and looted assets from humanitarian

organisations in Baidoa and Waajid. On 9 February, they stormed a national NGO office in Baidoa and looted

assets. On 10 February, Al Shabaab in Waajid, Bakool region, seized a UN vehicle at the Waajid airstrip. They

also entered the UN compound in Waajid and confiscated a list of assets. On 18 February, Al Shabaab

reportedly took furniture from the UN compound in Baidoa, Bay region.

Clashes in Dhobley, Lower Juba

Field reports indicate that Al Shabaab and Hisbul Islam clashed in Dhobley, a border town between Somalia

and Kenya, on 18 January. There were few casualties of fighters reported and none from the civilian population.

Unconfirmed numbers of civilians were displaced from the town.

Adjustments to Food Aid Allocations

WFP has revised its beneficiary numbers from 2.8 million to 2.5 million, while food allocations for the next six

months have been reduced from 30,000 metric tons to 29,000 metric tons. This follows findings from the

recently completed interagency assessment, which indicated an improving overall food security situation in

Somalia.

Meanwhile, food delivery to the Afgooye Corridor remains challenging. Except for the successful test deliveries

that were carried out three weeks ago, no further deliveries have reached the final distribution points in Afgooye

due to threats from Al Shabaab to WFP contracted transporters.

Response

Health

Following rumours of an outbreak of Diphtheria in Ceel Waaq district, Gedo region, WHO conducted a joint

investigation with a local NGO. It was established that 10 people had died from the disease, while 36 other

people had been affected, presenting symptoms of upper respiratory tract infection and skin lacerations. The

number of affected people has since decreased following treatment. Despite difficult access to the affected

people, WHO and partners have ruled out Diphtheria, but are closely monitoring the situation.

During the reporting period, health partners conducted targeted measles vaccination in Rab Dhuure district,

Bakool region, for children between nine months and 5 years of age. The children were also vaccinated against

other antigens. As of 15 February, 500 children had been vaccinated. The vaccination programme is ongoing.

Shelter and Non-Food Items (NFIs)

UNHCR, this week commenced an NFI distribution to 18,000 displaced people in villages surrounding

Dhuusamarreeb town, Galgaduud region. In total, 29,100 people were displaced following clashes at the end of

January. The NFI kit comprises of blankets, a plastic sheet, a sleeping mat and a kitchen set. The distribution is

ongoing.

Water, Sanitation and Hygiene

A local NGO in Bardera town, Gedo region, distributed chlorine sachets and water treatment tablets to 6,000

households during the reporting period. The training of 300 community hygiene promoters was also conducted.

The NGO also rehabilitated some water retention equipment which will benefit 5,000 households, including

2,000 IDPs in Bardera town.

During the reporting week, UNICEF, in collaboration with the Ministry of Health in Puntland, completed the

implementation of a five-day Expanded Programme on Immunization (EPI) reaching 3,200 children under oneyear

in Bossaso town.

The Danish Refugee Council completed several activities in Bossaso during the reporting period. Some 500

IDPs recently displaced from Gaalkacyo, Mudug region, benefited from 40 trucks of water. A hundred and forty

two shelters in Shambelle IDP camp were upgraded. The construction of 50 latrines in eight IDP camps was

completed benefiting 600 IDPs.

Nutrition

UNICEF provided plumpy nuts to 306 severely malnourished children in 10 sites (eight in IDP settlements and

two in the vulnerable host communities) under the Outreach Therapeutic Feeding programme in Bossaso,

Puntland.

Food Aid

WFP distributed 405 metric tons of assorted food commodities to 131,625 beneficiaries through general food

distribution, institutional feeding and supplementary feeding programmes. The beneficiaries included IDPs,

Tuberculosis and HIV patients, malnourished children, pregnant and lactating women in South Central regions

and Somaliland.

Contact

: For further information in English, contact: Rita Maingi on +254 734 800 120 – maingir@un.org In Somali or

English, contact Muna Mohamed on + 254 733 643 737 –

mohamed26@un.org

Qoysaska barakacayaasha ee ku sugan deegaanka KM-13 oo bilaabay in ay halkaasi ka sii barakacaaan kadib Madaafiic xalay halkaasi ku dhacday

Shabelle: TAREEDISHO.
Qoysaska barakacayaasha ee ku sugan deegaanka KM-13 ee duleedka magaalada Muqdisho ayaa waxa ay bilaabeen in ay halkaasi ka sii barakacaaan kadib markii habeenimadii xalay tiro Madaafiic ah ay halkaasi ku dhaceen.

Waxaa Saakay barakac xoog leh laga dareemayaa in uu ka bilowday deegaanka KM-13 ee duleedka magaalada Muqdisho kadib markii Madaafiic dhowr ah xalay la isku weydaarsaday qeybo kamid ah magaalada Muqdisho ay deegaankaasi gaareen.
 

Madaafiicdii xalay ku dhacday deegaanka KM-13 ayaa la sheegay in aysan geysan wax Khasaaro ah, balse dadka degenaa xerooyinka barakacayaasha ee ku yaala deegaanka KM-13 ayaa waxaa soo foodsaaray cabsi iyo walwal xoogan kadib markii qoysas faro badan oo halkaasi degenaa ay habeenkii xalay bilaabeen in ay ka barakacaan guryihii Cooshada ahaa ee ugu yiilay deegaanka KM-13 ee duleedka Muqdisho sida uu Shabelle u xaqiijiyay Axmed Sagaale oo kamid ah dadka ku dhaqan deegaanka KM-13.

Si kastaba ha ahaatee Madaafiicdii xalay ku dhacday qeybo kamid ah deegaanka KM-13 ee duleedka magaalada Muqdisho ayaa ku soo beegmaya xilli habeen hore dhowr Madfac ay ku dhaceen deegaanka Garsbaaleey ee duleedka magaalada Muqdisho halkaasi oo ay ka dhasheen khasaaro faro badan iyadoona inta la ogyahay ay ku dhaawacmeen ilaa 9-ruux.

Ethiopia opens fifth camp for Somali refugees

Written by: Frank Nyakairu

NAIROBI - The Ethiopian government and United Nations have opened a new refugee camp for thousands of Somalis fleeing violence in the Horn of Africa country.

Somalia shares its northwestern border with Ethiopia, which has experienced a growing influx of Somalis over the last three months.

"We have been receiving up to 3,000 refugees per month from Gedo, Mogadishu and Bakool regions in south-central Somalia," Kisut Gebre Egziabher, spokesman for the U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR), told AlertNet.

Fighting in Somalia has killed at least 21,000 people and forced more than 1.5 million from their homes since the start of 2007, producing what aid agencies describe as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

A Somali resident guides his donkey as he flees renewed fighting in the capital Mogadishu, Feb. 11, 2010. REUTERS/Ismail Taxta

Kenya, Somalia's neighbour to the south east, has tightened its border controls, and the authorities are reluctant to allocate more land to ease congestion in the sprawling Dadaab camp, which already holds some 260,000 people - mainly refugees.

Ethiopia hosts more than 60,000 displaced Somalis at four sites, and the additional camp at Melkadida, 65 kilometres from the Somali border, will be able to accommodate up to 20,000 more.

"Early last year, we opened a new camp at Bokolmanyo but it got full within one year - a sign that we will continue to get refugees as long as the Somalia crisis continues to get worse," said Egziabher in a telephone interview from the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa.

With an average of 200 Somalis arriving in Ethiopia each day, UNHCR says it is planning for further camps near Melkadida.

Western security agencies say Somalia has become a safe haven for militants, including foreign jihadists, who use it to plot attacks across the region and beyond.

Ethiopia invaded its Horn of Africa neighbour with tacit U.S. support at the end of 2006 to oust an Islamist movement that was running the capital Mogadishu and much of the south. The Ethiopian military officially withdrew in January last year.

Officials in Addis Ababa routinely deny that Ethiopian soldiers are on Somali soil, although they say they are providing security advice and training for Somalia's forces.

MORE UPROOTED IN MOGADISHU

Fighting in Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, has forced 13,600 people from their homes in the last two weeks, according to the United Nations.

"Of these, only 8,800 managed to escape from the capital, mainly to the IDP (internally displaced person) settlements in the Afgooye corridor, while 4,800 people are stranded in relatively safer areas of Mogadishu," a UNHCR briefing note said.

Much of Mogadishu is controlled by al Shabaab, an Islamist militant group which Washington says is al Qaeda's proxy in the region.

There are fears the humanitarian crisis could worsen if the Somali government launches a promised offensive against al Shabaab and another rebel group Hizbul Islam, which both want to impose a harsh version of sharia law in the war-torn country.

The international community and neighbouring countries are concerned about the wider threat posed by al Shabaab insurgents who control a large part of Somalia and are fighting its fragile government.

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Source: Reuters

U.N. rejects claims aid diverted to Somali rebels

* U.S. fears aid benefits al Shabaab, withholds funds

* U.N. could fail to raise required $900 mln for Somalia

By Frank Nyakairu

NAIROBI, Feb 17 (Reuters) - The U.N.'s food agency on Wednesday rejected claims some of its staff had diverted aid to hardline Somali rebels and the country's U.N. humanitarian coordinator called on the United States to free up millions of dollars meant for the Horn of African nation.

The World Food Programme said its investigation into the possible diversion of aid had absolved staff and partner organisations distributing food in Somalia.

Washington is withholding millions of dollars in aid amid fears it benefits al Shabaab insurgents, a group that has declared loyalty to al Qaeda and wants to impose its own harsh version of sharia law throughout the country.


"WFP has concluded an internal investigation and we found no evidence that our staff divert food and there was no evidence that our transporters did the same," said Peter Smerdon, the World Food Programme's spokesman in Nairobi.

The investigation followed reports that food aid meant for Somali civilians was finding its way into the hands of al Shabaab, which controls much of southern and central Somalia.

Fighting in Somalia has killed at least 21,000 people and forced more than 1.5 million from their homes since the start of 2007, leading to what aid agencies describe as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

According to new estimates from the U.N.'s Food Agricultural Organisation, 42 percent of the Somalia population need aid the country has the world's highest malnutrition levels.

WFP suspended its work in much of southern Somalia in January due to threats against its staff and because al Shabaab was demanding payments for security. [ID:nLDE6040KW]

The U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia accused Washington of politicising aid funds after negotiations aimed at releasing the millions of dollars for Somalia stalled.

"Where the negotiations have stalled are the practicalities of the measures the agencies have to undertake and that, in my view, is politicisation of serious humanitarian issues," Mark Bowden told reporters in Nairobi. He declined to elaborate on what those measures were.

"No U.N. agency has paid any money to al Shabaab," he said.

The U.N. agencies said the curbs on funding for areas under al Shabaab were forcing some to cut back on programmes and leading to even more suffering for desperate Somalis. The United States is the biggest aid donor to Somalia.

"We are going into this year in a very worrying financial situation," Bowden said.

Somalia has lacked an effective central government since 1991. An African Union AMISOM peacekeeping mission in Somalia is slowly being bolstered. It is made up of about 5,200 troops and will eventually increase to 8,000. (Editing by David Clarke and Louise Ireland)

UN agency helps Somali refugees to transfer to Ethiopian camp

16 February 2010 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has started relocating hundreds of people fleeing an upsurge in fighting and tightened access to humanitarian aid in southern and central Somalia to a camp in neighbouring Ethiopia.

The agency is moving the refugees from a transit centre in Dolo Ado in Ethiopia, near its border with Somalia, to a new camp in Melkadida over 60 kilometres away, spokesperson Melissa Fleming told reporters today in Geneva.

The first convoy, comprising 11 buses and two trucks, transported 247 refugees to the new site. They are the first of 7,000 Somalis who have been recognized as refugees by the Ethiopian Government with UNHCR’s support. Under current plans, 500 refugees a week will be moved from Dolo Ado to the new camp.

Melkadida is the second camp in southeast Ethiopia and the fifth in the country to host refugees from Somalia. The first site in Bokolmanyo, which opened last April, was built to accommodate 20,000 people and has already reached capacity.

Likewise, the new camp at Melkadida can host up to 20,000 refugees and UNCHR, together with its partners, are working to expand basic infrastructure, including water services and the erection of a health centre. The building of elementary schools is also in the pipeline.

Upon arrival at the site, the refugees spend three days in a reception area and then move to their allocated plots of land where emergency tents have been built until permanent shelters are in place. The Somalis are provided with food, kitchen sets, jerry cans, mosquito nets and other supplies.

“Somalis are arriving in Ethiopia at an average of 200 individuals per day, and we are already planning for further camps near Melkadida,” Ms. Fleming noted.

At present, over 60,000 Somalis are living in four camps, including Bokolmanyo, in Ethiopia’s Somali region, and they continue to arrive at a pace of 200 per day.

At the height of the region’s refugee crisis in the early 1990s, the area was home to 628,000 Somali refugees. Most returned to their homes between 1997 and 2005, and nearly all camps were shut down as a result.

However, renewed conflict again caused Somalis to take flight to Ethiopia, with three new camps built between 2007 and 2009.

In the past two weeks alone, the UNHCR spokesperson said, nearly 14,000 people have been driven from their homes by the spike in fighting in Mogadishu between the forces of the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) and opposition. Over half of these people have managed to escape the capital, while others are stranded in relatively safer areas of the city.

“The number of casualties and of people injured in the crossfire is alarming,” Ms. Fleming said, with at least 50 people reportedly having been killed and more than 100 others injured since the violence erupted last week.

UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Mark Bowden expressed grave concern yesterday at the latest surge in clashes in Mogadishu, which has claimed dozens of lives.

He said the most recent fighting has been focused in northern Mogadishu, especially the districts of Heliwa, Yaaqshiid and Wardhiigleey.

“I am alarmed by the large number of casualties emanating from recent fighting,” he said in a statement, adding that “civilians continue to bear the brunt of conflict and insecurity in the country.”

The worst of the latest fighting between Government forces and al-Shabaab militiamen is reported to have occurred on 10 February, when 24 people died and nearly 160 others had to be hospitalized with war-related injuries.

Source: UN News Center

Fresh surge in deadly violence in Somali capital sparks alarm from UN official

15 February 2010 – The United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia expressed grave concern today at the latest spike in violence in the capital, Mogadishu, which has killed at least 80 civilians and forced more than 8,000 others to flee their homes since the start of the month.

Mark Bowden, who is also the UN Resident Coordinator in Somalia, said the most recent fighting has been focused in northern Mogadishu, especially the districts of Heliwa, Yaaqshiid and Wardhiigleey.

“I am alarmed by the large number of casualties emanating from recent fighting,” he said in a statement released today, adding that “civilians continue to bear the brunt of conflict and insecurity in the country.”

The worst of the latest fighting between Government forces and al-Shabaab militiamen is reported to have occurred on 10 February, when 24 people died and nearly 160 others had to be hospitalized with war-related injuries.

About a third of the people fleeing the fighting have moved to other neighbourhoods within Mogadishu, but the majority have moved out of the city to the so-called Afgooye corridor, a strip of makeshift shelters which stretches 30 kilometres west of the capital and is already home to an estimated 366,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs).

Other UN officials, including representatives of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), have also spoken out in recent days about the latest violence in Mogadishu.

Mr. Bowden appealed today to the parties to the conflict to minimize risks to civilians by abiding by international humanitarian law.

Mogadishu is among the most war-wracked parts of Somalia, where about 1.4 million people are internally displaced and millions more live in neighbouring countries such as Kenya. Somalia has not had a functioning national government since 1991.

Source: UN News Center

Qoysas Barakacayaal ah oo mar kale ka barakacay deegaanka Garasbaaley ee duleedka Muqdisho kadib duqeyn xalay halkaasi lagu garaacay

Shabelle: MUQDISHO               Deegaanka Garasbaaley ee duleedka Magaalada Muqdisho ayaa laga soo sheegayaa in uu ka bilwoday barakac kadib markii habeenkii xalay duqeyn halkaasi ku dhacday ay sababtay dhimashada 2 ruux halka 9 kalana ay dhaawacmeen.

Wararka Shabelle ay ka heleyso deegaanka Garasbaaley ayaa sheegay in dadka dhintay ama dhaawacmay ayaa dhamaantoodba ahaayeen qoys balaaran oo is dhex degan iyadoo labada qof ee dhibateyna la sheegay in ay ahaayeen wiil iyo gabar dhalinyaro ah.

Dadka dhaawaca ah oo tiradooda ay gaarayso 9-ka ruux ayaa la sheegay in ay ku jireen kuwa dhaawacoodu daranyahay iyadoo la sheegay in qaar ka mid ah koomo ama xaalad miir beel ah ay ku jiraan waxaana la sheegay in haatan lagu baxnaaninayo isbitaalada Dayniile iyo Carafaat sida ay inoo sheegtay gabar ka mid ah ehelada qoyska ay dhibaatadu soo gaartay.

Barakacaan iyo xaaladahaan walaaca ee laga soo sheegayo deegaanka Garisbaaley ayaa imaanaya xili ay horay halkaasi ugu sugnaayeen dad badan oo ka barakacay magaalada Muqdisho taasoo u muuqata hadda in ay mar labaad sii barakacayaan, iyadoo aan la ogeyn sababta keentay duqeyntii xalay loo geystay deegaanka Garisbaaley ee duleedka Magaalada Muqdisho.

Fresh surge in deadly violence in Somali capital sparks alarm from UN official

Fresh surge in deadly violence in Somali capital sparks alarm from UN official

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Drought-hit Somaliland pleads for aid

HARGEISA, 16 February 2010 (IRIN) - Officials in Somalia's self-declared independent republic of Somaliland have appealed to the international community to provide humanitarian aid for hundreds of thousands of people, especially children, in the wake of prolonged drought.

"The affected population is estimated at about 40 percent of Somaliland's 3.5 million, which is equivalent to 1.4 million people," Ali Ibrahim, Minister for Planning and National Aid Co-ordination, told IRIN.

Following the failure of the Gu and Deyr rainy seasons in 2009, he said help was needed in water-trucking, construction and rehabilitation of boreholes, rehabilitation and desilting of dams, and the supply of medication for affected human and livestock populations to avert an outbreak of epidemics.

Ibrahim added nutritional support for the weak and sick was required.

"The situation is critical and may continue to worsen in the coming months," he said. "It requires rapid and fast responses from the international community, the business community, and humanitarian and benevolent institutions, to deliver needed humanitarian assistance and livelihood support."

The Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) has also raised concerns about the effects of the drought.

In a 12 February brief, http://www.fsnau.org/fileadmin/uploads/1648.pdf it said the Sool Plateau of Sanaag region and Togdheer agro-pastoral livelihood zones were experiencing an acute food and livelihood crisis.

"Fortunately, humanitarian access to these regions is good; therefore it is essential for agencies to extend the much-needed life-saving and/or livelihood support interventions to the population in these areas to prevent further deterioration."

Funding gaps

According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA-Somalia), the Consolidated Appeals Process (CAP) - through which UN agencies and NGOs solicit funding for projects and programmes - is 5 percent funded so far, meaning "there are huge funding gaps in comparison to the needs on the ground".

Some 22 percent of the funding for FAO's emergency support to pastoral and agro-pastoral communities in humanitarian emergency and acute food and livelihood crises had been met by 15 February 2010, according to a list of appeal projects [http://www.reliefweb.int/fts]. Of the US$11,457,500 required, the earmarked funding received so far for this project was $2,501,842, with $8,955,658 remaining unmet.

No funding had been received, by 15 February, for another $285,000 project aimed at improving crop production among poor agro-pastoralists in Sool region or for a $124,000 project to boost crop production and income generation among agro-pastoral communities in Togdheer region.

Officials of Somaliland's Ministry of Planning and Aid Coordination and the National Environment Risk and Disaster (NERAD) have described the nutritional status of agro-pastoralists as critical.

Sa'id Ahmed, an agro-pastoralist, told IRIN on 11 February: "I come from Uubaale, just less than 15km south of Hargeisa; all the people who had cattle have lost their animals and now we are afraid that we may get contaminated by disease because of the dead animals."

A December-January assessment by NERAD found that the Gu, Karan and Heis rains were below normal, while there was no rain in eastern areas such as Sool, Sanag and Togdheer.

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UN agency ramping up aid efforts as clashes drive more Somalis from capital

12 February 2010 – The United Nations refugee agency is stepping up efforts to provide emergency relief to civilians displaced by the latest surge in fighting in the Somali capital, where some 24 people have reportedly been killed and another 40 injured since Wednesday.

Melissa Fleming, spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), told reporters in Geneva that the agency’s efforts will be impacted by the security situation. “As with other humanitarian actors, our own access is affected by conflict.”

There are more than 1.4 million internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Horn of Africa nation owing to escalating violence and a worsening humanitarian situation, with another 560,000 Somalis living as refugees in neighbouring and nearby countries.

Another wave of fighting erupted between Government forces and the Al-Shabaab militia in the capital on Wednesday. UNHCR said some residents had already begun to stream out of Mogadishu a few days earlier following reports of a major military build-up and a possible Government offensive against the armed opposition groups occupying parts of the city.

Since the beginning of February, more than 8,000 people have left the city to escape the fighting that is said to be raging in several areas, especially in the northern suburbs of Haliwaa, Yaaqshiid and Wardhiigleey, stated the agency.

“Many have reportedly gone to other relatively safe areas of the capital or to the Afgooye corridor, where there are already an estimated 366,000 people displaced by previous conflicts,” said Ms. Fleming.

The corridor, which stretches some 30 kilometres west of Mogadishu, has one of the largest concentrations of displaced people in the world.

Over a quarter of a million civilians have been forced to flee Mogadishu since May 2009 when armed opposition groups first launched attacks aimed at ousting the newly installed Transitional Federal Government (TFG).

The UN Special Representative for Somalia, Ahmedou Ould-Abdallah, today congratulated the Somali Government on its first anniversary and urged it to continue its efforts to restore peace and stability to the country.

He noted that the Government has made some important progress in the past 12 months, which he has personally witnessed on visits to Mogadishu, including work on the port, airport and Parliament. However, their efforts have also been impeded by the ongoing conflict.
“Unfortunately, they have had to spend time and resources trying to stop the violent attacks by extremists who oppose all their attempts to bring normality back to the country,” said the Special Representative.

“Many people recognize that Somalia is moving from being a failed State in conflict to a fragile State with major development and reconstruction needs,” Mr. Ould-Abdallah added, noting that the focus of peace efforts should not only be on security, political or humanitarian issues but also on economic development and, in particular, job creation and the promotion of trade and business.

Special Brief - Post Deyr '09/10 Analysis

Source: Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU)

Date: 12 Feb 2010

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This special FSNAU brief provides a summary of the key findings of the post Deyr '09/10 Assessment and Analysis, which are the result of fieldwork (December23 – January 5) and national analysis workshop (January 11 – 16) and a Technical Verification and Partner Vetting Meetings (Nutrition, January 25 and Food Security, January 27). FEWSNET Somalia along with 86 partners, including regional authorities, UN and international agencies and local and international NGOs participated and supported in this post Deyr '09/10 assessment and analysis process. FSNAU presented these results in Nairobi at a Somalia Support Secretariat Special Meeting on January 29th and issued a Press Release on February 1.

CEELBIYOOD DHAWAAN LAGA QODEY TULADA QODAXTOLE OO LOO LAYAHAY MATOOR BIYAHA KASOO SAARA

Source: codkamudug.com
Written by liibaan

Wednesday, 10 February 2010 20:09

Qaar ka mid ah wax garadka,odayaasha ,iyo culuma,udiinka tuulada qodaxtoole oo qiyaasti lixdan kiilo mitir dhinaca bari kaga beegan magaalada gaalkacyo ayaa Si aad ah ugu cabanaya xaalado biyo la,aan ah oo xilligan soo wajahay dadka iyo xoolaha ku dhaqan qodaxtoole iyo deegaanada miyiga ee ku xeeran, waxaana waxgaradka deegaanadaasi aay sheegeen in biyo la,aanta ka jirta qodaxtoole awgeed ay qarka usaarantahay in gabi ahaanba dadka ku nool tuuladaasi isaga cararaan halkaasi


Tuulada qodaxtoole oo ka mid ah meelaha ay sida weyn uSameysay abaaraha ka jira gobalka mudug oo xoolo fara badan ugu dhinteen haraad dartii ,ayaa deegaankaasi waxaa dhawaan ceel biyood nuuca riiga ka qoday hay,ada ICRC inkastoo qodista ceelkaasi si rasmi ah loo dhameeyey ayaa waxaa wali aan loo sameyn matoorki ceelkaasi biyaha ka soo saar lahaa,waxaana dadka xoolaleyda ah oo filayey in ay biyo ka heli doonaan ceelkaasi ayaa rajo xumo weyn ka muujeyey matoor la,aanta haysa ceelkaasi
Intii ay socotay qodista ceelkaasi oo ahayd ku dhawaad mudo afar bilood ah ayaa waxaa deegaanadaasi soo gaaray xoolo dhaqato hore ugu baracakacay biyo la,aanti halkaasi ka jirtay,qoysaska soo gaaray halka laga qodayey ceelkaasi ee qodaxtoole iyo kuwi hore udeganaa ayaa si weyn ufilayey in marka ladhameeyey qodista ceelkaasi ay ka heli doonaan biyo iyaga iyo xoolahooda dadkaasi xoolaleyda ah oo intii ay socotay howsha lagu qodayey ceel biyood kaasi ka qayb qaatay soona dhaweeyey Mas’uuliyiintii ka socotey Haya’adda I.C.R.C

Ugu danbayntii waxaa dhaliil ujeediyey hay,ada ceelkaasi qoday ee ICRC dadka deegaanka waxayna ku tilmaameen in ay Haya’addaasi qabteen howl qaybo ah XASAN XAASHI XUUDI oo ka mid ah gudiga odayaasha ee tuulada qodaxtoole ayaa ka codsaday in hay,adahada samafalka, jaaliyada galmudug,iyo dadka ka shaqeeyo dhinaca gargaarka bani,aadimo ay la soo
Gaaraan matoor ceelkaasi biyaha looga soo saaro si loo samata bixiyo kumanaan xoolo dhaqato ah oo la ildaran biyo la,aan soo wajahdey






















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