Page 1 The aid agency Oxfam has decried the conditions in which hundreds of thousands of refugees from the conflict in Somalia are being forced to live.It says the overcrowded and badly managed camps in Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya are "barely fit for humans". Dadaab camp in north-eastern Kenya was meant to ... Read Story at BBC News (2009-09-03) Oxfam said on Thursday some areas had received less than 5 percent of their normal November rains. It is the sixth failed rainy season for war-ravaged Somalia and the worst drought there for 20 years. The agency says many people are malnourished in Uganda, Tanzania, Somalia, Kenya and ... Read Story at Times Live (2009-12-17) In a bid to prevent the spread of the polio virus in the Horn of Africa, Kenya, Ethiopia and Somalia will at the weekend embark on a simultaneous vaccination campaign targeting nearly three million children younger than five, the United Nations health agency said on Friday.Somalia had been free of ... Read Story at IRINNews (2006-09-08) The men who attacked Russia's ambassador to Kenya with a machete must be "found and punished," Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Andrei Krivstov said on Monday. "We have demanded that measures be taken so that the guilty parties are found and punished," Krivstov told AFP, adding that the Russian embassy ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2006-08-21) The men who attacked Russia's ambassador to Kenya with a machete must be "found and punished," Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Andrei Krivstov said on Monday. "We have demanded that measures be taken so that the guilty parties are found and punished," Krivstov told AFP, adding that the Russian embassy ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2006-08-21) Kenya has banned all flights to Somalia, citing security fears. The ban comes two weeks after the US issued a warning about suicide attacks from Islamist militants in Somalia. Kenya is the main entry point for international travel to Somalia and is also the source of much of ... Read Story at BBC News (2006-11-15) Kenya has banned all flights to Somalia, citing security fears. The ban comes two weeks after the US issued a warning about suicide attacks from Islamist militants in Somalia. Kenya is the main entry point for international travel to Somalia and is also the source of much of ... Read Story at BBC News (2006-11-13) By Mathias Ringa and Patrick Beja The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Somalia, has run short of food after attempt to buy more from Kenya failed. WFP Somalia deputy country director Leo van der Velden said the agency had planned to buy 2,000 metric tonne of food to feed ... Read Story at The Standard (2006-01-08) Several thousand troops " some said to have been trained in Kenya " have been assembled in preparation for a major assault on Somalia"s al Shabaab militia which could start within weeks. Related Stories Militia orders UN agency to leave Somalia The Transitional Federal Government ... Read Story at Daily Nation (2010-03-06) A suspended operation to repatriate Somali refugees from Kenya to the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, northeastern Somalia, resumed at the weekend, the UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said.In a statement, it said the repatriation restarted on 19 July after a two-month suspension caused by lack of funds for the flights ... Read Story at IRINNews (2003-07-22) News Results: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 |