Home Page 1 Somalia: Galkayo hospital "desperate for supplies" NAIROBI, 28 January 2010 (IRIN) - Galkayo Hospital in northern Somalia, once a large, fully equipped referral facility, has become a shadow of its former self since the collapse of the central government in 1991, according to medical staff. "The hospital is for all practical purposes closed. We ... Read Story at IRINNews (2010-01-28) : Gunmen attack Somali mosque A Mosque in Galkayo, the regional capital of Mudug region in central Somalia, has been attacked by armed Somali gunmen. Seven Pakistani preachers were killed in the deadly onslaught. Six of the clerics reportedly died at the scene whilst the seventh victim died in the hospital from the ... Read Story at Voxafrica (2009-08-12) Ethiopia: Somali anger at Ethiopia "raid" Somalia"s semi-autonomous region of Puntland has protested to Ethiopia, accusing its forces of carrying out a cross-border undercover operation.Puntland"s security minister told the BBC two people were in hospital after Ethiopian forces entered Galkayo town at night and raided a house. He said Ethiopian officers had shot one man and ... Read Story at BBC News (2009-10-09) Somalia: Seven bodies seen on the street Mogadishu, Somalia - Witnesses in Somalia say fighting spurred by a land dispute has killed eight people. Witnesses say they saw the bodies of seven people in the street in the central town of Galkayo after shells were lobbed into residential areas. Sahara Dahir, a nurse, says an ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2009-12-24) Somalia: Seven bodies seen on the street Mogadishu, Somalia - Witnesses in Somalia say fighting spurred by a land dispute has killed eight people. Witnesses say they saw the bodies of seven people in the street in the central town of Galkayo after shells were lobbed into residential areas. Sahara Dahir, a nurse, says an ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2009-12-24) Somalia: Drought-affected people in "desperate situation" - UN People in the drought-affected regions of northeastern and northwestern Somalia have lost most of their livestock and are now in desperate need of help, the United Nations Humanitarian Coordinator in Somalia, Maxwell Gaylard, said."The drought affected areas are now in a desperate situation, with inadequate pasture for remaining livestock and ... Read Story at IRINNews (2004-09-01) Kenya: UN starts airlifting supplies to refugees The United Nations said on Friday it would begin emergency airlifts of humanitarian supplies at the weekend to nearly 80 000 desperate and homeless Somali refugees in camps in flood-hit north-east Kenya. The UN refugee agency UNHCR said the flights would begin on Sunday carrying tarpaulins, medical supplies and ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2006-11-17) Kenya: UN starts airlifting supplies to refugees The United Nations said on Friday it would begin emergency airlifts of humanitarian supplies at the weekend to nearly 80 000 desperate and homeless Somali refugees in camps in flood-hit north-east Kenya. The UN refugee agency UNHCR said the flights would begin on Sunday carrying tarpaulins, medical supplies and ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2006-11-17) Kenya: MSF awed by 'extreme violence' in Somalia A seemingly endless cycle of violence in lawless Somalia is having a "catastrophic" effect on the war-shattered nation's civilian population, the international charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said on Monday. At its two hospitals in the divided central town of Galkayo alone, it said it had treated ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2005-08-22) Kenya: MSF awed by 'extreme violence' in Somalia A seemingly endless cycle of violence in lawless Somalia is having a "catastrophic" effect on the war-shattered nation's civilian population, the international charity Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) said on Monday. At its two hospitals in the divided central town of Galkayo alone, it said it had treated ... Read Story at IndependentOnline (2005-08-22) 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