Posted in Africa, Civilian Casualties, Gunfire, Health Care, Horn of Africa, NGOs, Shelling, Somalia, United Nations, tagged AU, Children casualties, Civilian Casualties, innocent victims, Somalia, UN, WHO on June 1, 2011 |
NAIROBI, 31 May 2011 (IRIN) – Hundreds of children younger than five have been wounded in the latest round of fighting in Mogadishu, Somalia’s capital, accounting for almost half of all trauma cases in May, according to the UN World Health Organization (WHO).
In a press statement issued on 31 May, WHO said recent data showed that the main causes of death among under-fives were burns, chest injuries and internal haemorrhaging caused by blast injuries, shrapnel and bullets.
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Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Al Shabab, Amisom, AU, Bakara, casualty, civil war, civilian, Displacement, Somalia on April 11, 2011 |
MOGADISHU, 7 April 2011 (IRIN) – Fighting between pro-government forces and Al-Shabab in Mogadishu has made it much harder for residents to access the Somali capital’s economic heart, Bakara market. (more…)
