| SOMALIA: A day in the life of a Mogadishu paramedic |
 NAIROBI, 31 August 2010 (IRIN) - The LifelineAfrica ambulance service was launched in December 2008 by two men who realized the injured often died of blood loss before reaching hospital. Almost 18 months after IRIN first spoke to the founders, we asked Ismail Mohamed how he and his colleagues were coping as fighting enters its ninth day in Mogadishu. NationLink, a telecommunications company, funds the service.
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| SOMALIA: Mogadishu fighting cuts food supplies |
 NAIROBI, 30 August 2010 (IRIN) - As the latest round of fighting in the Somali capital enters its eighth day, traders and civil society activists warn of food shortages due to the closure of many businesses and markets across the city, increasing pressure on the already food-insecure population.
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| SOMALIA: Corpses litter streets amid Mogadishu fighting |
 NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) - Deadly clashes between Islamist insurgents and African Union-backed government forces cut off many parts of Mogadishu on 24 August, when dozens of people, including several MPs, were killed during an attack on a downtown hotel.
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| SOMALIA: Good rains dent numbers needing help |
 NAIROBI, 24 August 2010 (IRIN) - Two million Somalis, an estimated 27 percent of the total population, still need emergency and livelihood assistance, despite above-average seasonal rains boosting livestock farming and creating a bumper harvest of maize and sorghum, says a study by the Nairobi-based Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Union (FSNAU) of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
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| SOMALIA: Halima Mo'alim Abikar, "I could not remain silent about what was happening in my own backyard" |
 NAIROBI, 19 August 2010 (IRIN) - Bombs, mortar shells and bullets have displaced more than a million people in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu. Halima Mo’alim Abikar is not one of them. The 50-year-old human rights activist decided to stay put to ensure that abuses committed as African Union-backed government forces and Islamist militias battle it out are not forgotten.
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| SOMALIA: Relative calm boosts school numbers in Beletweyne |
 NAIROBI, 17 August 2010 (IRIN) - The town of Beletweyne in central Somalia's Hiiraan region has recorded a marked increase in pupils returning to school following relative calm in the region over the past six months, say residents and school officials.
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| SOMALIA: Fasting month brings more fear, costlier food |
 NAIROBI, 12 August 2010 (IRIN) - With the start of Ramadan - the Islamic holy month characterized by fasting - residents of Mogadishu are facing a difficult economic situation as well as the prospect of more fighting and shelling, say civil society sources.
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| SOMALIA: Ban on aid agencies condemned |
 NAIROBI, 10 August 2010 (IRIN) - Government officials, aid beneficiaries and humanitarian workers in south-central Somalia have condemned a ban imposed on three aid organizations by the Islamist group, Al Shabab, which controls most of the region.
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| SOMALIA: Getting an education against all odds in Kismayo |
 KISMAYO, 9 August 2010 (IRIN) - Five years after a local charity opened a university to offer this bullet-scarred city’s youth an alternative to militia life and emigration, the first degrees have been awarded.
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| YEMEN-SOMALIA: Somalis set to lose automatic refugee status |
 SANAA, 9 August 2010 (IRIN) - Straining to cope with the number of Somalis arriving by boat, Yemen is seeking to end the prima facie refugee status (automatic asylum) it has been giving them for the past 20 years.
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