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UNHCR scaling up operations inside Somalia
news UNHCR Briefing Notes, 9/09/2011, 09 Sep 2011 (12 years ago )Amid assessments of a somewhat improved security situation in some parts of Somalia, UNHCR is scaling up its presence in Somalia’s border regions and in Mogadishu. Yesterday, a UNHCR team undertook a mission to Liboi (Kenya) and Dobley (Lower Juba), which is the main transit point on the route to Da... -
Somali famine: Red Cross aid push in Islamist areas
news BBC News, 05 Oct 2011 (12 years ago )The International Red Cross has begun a huge distribution of aid to one million people in famine zones in Somalia controlled by Islamist militants. <P>A continuous operation will transport the food in lorries from the coast deep into areas controlled by al-Shabab. <P>The Red Cross says it is i... -
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... -
UNHCR ready to assist newly displaced in Mogadishu
news UNHCR Briefing Notes, 29 May 2012 (11 years ago )In Somalia, UNHCR and our partners stand ready to assist displaced people from Afgooye as they arrive in Mogadishu. Since 22 May, some 14,000 people have been displaced from Afgooye as a result of military activity in the area which started a week ago. The humanitarian community has a contingency... -
Increase in registered Syrian refugees, new camps planned in Turkey and Jordan
news www.unhcr.org, 31 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )The number of Syrian refugees registered or assisted by UNHCR in Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Turkey has almost tripled since April 2012 and now stands at 112,000. Three quarters are women and children. This actual number of Syrian refugees is thought to be significantly higher, as many people seek to... -
After a decade in Mogadishu Tanzanian refugees return to Zanzibar
news www.unhcr.org, 31 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )This past weekend UNHCR successfully completed the voluntary repatriation of 38 Tanzanian refugees from Zanzibar who had been residing in Mogadishu for the past 11 years. The group, comprising 12 families, were flown on two special UNHCR-chartered flights from Mogadishu to Zanzibar on Friday 6 Ju... -
Sharp increase in Malian refugee arrivals in Mauritania, critical low funding levels
news , 31 Aug 2012 (11 years ago )Six months ago refugees began fleeing Mali to Mauritania, Niger and Burkina Faso. Today, political instability in Bamako and insecurity in northern Mali continue to trigger the flight of thousands of refugees to neighbouring countries and other parts of Mali. Over 365,000 people are estimated to hav... -
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... -
US to name first envoy to Somalia in decades.
news Aljazeera, 03 Jun 2014 (9 years ago )President Barack Obama is set to announce the first American ambassador to Somalia since the civil war erupted more than 20 years ago, according to a US diplomat. "As a reflection both of our deepening relationship with the country and of our faith that better times are ahead, the president will ...