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SOMALIA-SOUTH AFRICA: Somalis feel the heat of delivery protests
18 May 2007
(IRIN
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More than 20 people have been arrested after shops reportedly belonging to Somali nationals were torched during weeklong violent protests by residents in Khutsong township, outside Carletonville, a small mining town about 50km southwest of Johannesburg, South Africa.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/72241/SOMALIA-SOUTH-AFRICA-Somalis-feel-the-heat-of-delivery-protests
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SOMALIA: Plea to help 12,000 displaced in Bardera
17 May 2007
(IRIN
),
Local authorities in Somalia's southwestern town of Bardera, Gedo region, have appealed to international aid agencies to help up to 12,000 displaced people who have sought refuge in the town.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/72210/SOMALIA-Plea-to-help-12-000-displaced-in-Bardera
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SOMALIA: One-third of conflict victims were children - UN
15 May 2007
(IRIN
),
A UN report on children in Somalia estimates that more than one-third of the people who were killed and injured in fighting in 2006 were children.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/72151/SOMALIA-One-third-of-conflict-victims-were-children-UN
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SOMALIA: EU calls for reconciliation
15 May 2007
(IRIN
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The European Union has called for a reconciliation process and dialogue to include all sectors of Somali society.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/72153/SOMALIA-EU-calls-for-reconciliation
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SOMALIA: Mogadishu mayor regrets disruption of UN mission by bombs
14 May 2007
(IRIN
),
Explosions in Somalia's capital Mogadishu, which forced the United Nations Emergency Relief Coordinator John Holmes to cut short his weekend visit, were politically motivated and meant to paint the city in a bad light, the city's mayor told IRIN.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/72126/SOMALIA-Mogadishu-mayor-regrets-disruption-of-UN-mission-by-bombs
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SOMALIA: National staff, local partners carry the load in a dangerous environment
10 May 2007
(IRIN
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Across Somalia, aid workers face faction fighting, road-blocks manned by gunmen, kidnappings and killings. Increasingly, humanitarian agencies are relying on their national staff to continue their operations, presenting practical and ethical dilemmas for agency management.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/72087/SOMALIA-National-staff-local-partners-carry-the-load-in-a-dangerous-environment
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SOMALIA: Habibo Muhammad: "No one could survive Mogadishu"
10 May 2007
(IRIN
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Shamso, aged three, and her mother were forced to flee the fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, escaping in a truck for Waajid, where the child was able to get treatment for acute watery diarrhoea.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/72079/SOMALIA-Habibo-Muhammad-No-one-could-survive-Mogadishu
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SOMALIA: Practising medicine in the middle of violence, displacement and deprivation
9 May 2007
(IRIN
),
Hawa Abdi has opened her 26-hectare compound to displaced people fleeing the violence in Mogadishu, the Somali capital. With her daughter, also a doctor, and the help of volunteers, she is doing her best to treat and feed thousands of people but supplies are hard to find.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/72036/SOMALIA-Practising-medicine-in-the-middle-of-violence-displacement-and-deprivation
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SOMALIA: Bintow Hassan, "I don't see any future here"
7 May 2007
(IRIN
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Bintow Hassan has been displaced for the second time in 15 years, after heavy fighting in Mogadishu forced her to flee the Somali capital with her family.
http://www.irinnews.org/HOV/72004/SOMALIA-Bintow-Hassan-I-don-t-see-any-future-here
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SOMALIA: War-related price hikes hit displaced
3 May 2007
(IRIN
),
The price of rental properties, transport, water and basic food and non-food items has risen by between 30 and 70 percent over the past four weeks as a result of the fighting in the Somali capital.
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/71929/SOMALIA-War-related-price-hikes-hit-displaced
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