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  • UK asylum seeker claims harrowing deportation

    news Al Jazeera, 01 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )
    London, United Kingdom - A Somali man forcibly returned to Mogadishu from the UK under a controversial new scheme to send home failed asylum seekers has described how he was punched and kicked by the British guards who accompanied him, and left him bleeding in a cell after having a tooth knocked out...
  • EXCLUSIVE-UN experts wary of Somaliland plan for armed oil protection unit

    news Reuters By Michelle Nichols and Louis Charbonneau, 30 May 2014 (9 years ago )
    UNITED NATIONS, May 30 (Reuters) - U.N. experts warn that plans by Somalia's breakaway enclave Somaliland to deploy special forces to protect foreign oil companies could worsen conflicts in the long unstable Horn of Africa. A confidential May 27 letter to the U.N. Security Council sanctions commi...
  • UN agency warns of Somalia hunger deaths

    news Al Jazeera Reuters, 28 May 2014 (9 years ago )
    About 200,000 children under the age of five could die from severe malnutrition in Somalia by the end of the year, unless the United Nations receives emergency funds to stave off mass hunger, UN officials have said. Only $15m has been received against the appeal by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF)...
  • Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia condemns attack on Federal Parliament

    news UNSOM, 26 May 2014 (9 years ago )
    Mogadishu, 24 May 2014 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, condemned the attack on the Federal Parliament today that resulted in fatalities and injuries. A suspected suicide car bomb exploded at the main entrance and gunshots were fired at the b...
  • Somali minister quits over al-Shabab attack

    news Aljazeera Agencies, 25 May 2014 (9 years ago )
    Somalia's national security minister has resigned after an attack by al-Shabab fighters on the country's parliament. The resignation of Abdikarim Guled late on Saturday came after the group set off powerful car bombs outside parliament and fighters armed with explosive vests, grenades and machine...
  • Somalis suspected in Djibouti suicide bombing

    news Aljazeera Reuters, 25 May 2014 (9 years ago )
    Two Somalis are suspected of having carried out a suicide bombing at a restaurant filled with Western military personnel on Saturday that killed three and wounded at least 15 Djibouti's Interior Ministry has said. Several members of EU naval and civilian maritime security missions were among tho...
  • Weekly update on displacement and other population movements in South-Central Somalia

    news UNHCR, 06 Apr 2014 (9 years ago )
    In summary, close to 9,000 civilians were displaced during the reporting period (almost the double of last week's figure of new IDPs). Marka and the outskirts of Mogadishu are now major places of new displacement. IDPs in these locations are in need of assistance.
  • In pasture-scarce North Kenya, feuding pastoralists seek peace

    news Source: International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 20 Mar 2014 (10 years ago )
    A Maasai herdsman walks with his goats past a road construction project near Isiolo town, 320 km (200 miles) north from the Kenyan capital Nairobi on July 7, 2008. REUTERS/Antony Njuguna
  • Somalia’s Hawa Aden Mohamed wins the 2012 Nansen Refugee Award

    news http://www.unhcr.org/nansen, 19 Sep 2012 (11 years ago )
    Embargo: 11:30 AM CET, 18 SEPTEMBER, 2012 Somalia’s Hawa Aden Mohamed wins the 2012 Nansen Refugee Award GENEVA, 18 September, 2012 – The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) announced today in Geneva that this year’s Nansen Refugee Award goes to Hawa Aden Mohamed, the founder an...
  • UNHCR alarm on health risks for refugees in South Sudan

    news www.unhcr.org, 31 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )
    Conditions in South Sudan’s refugee camps have continued to worsen over the past few days under the strain of continuing large refugee inflows and flooding from torrential rains. The health situation has at this point become UNHCR’s priority concern, and we are watching closely for possible outbreak...