Reuters | Mohammed Mukhashaf | June 13, 2011 ADEN – More than 15,000 people fleeing fighting between the army and Islamist gunmen in Yemen’s Abyan province have turned schools in Yemen’s southern port city into makeshift refugee camps. Refugees complained that authorities have not provided them with enough medicine, clothing and blankets. They sleep 20 and [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Displacement’
YEMEN: Thousands of Yemenis take refuge in Aden schools
Posted in Displacement, Internal Displaced Persons, Middle-East, Yemen, tagged Displacement, IDPs, internally displaced people, Internally Displaced Persons, Middle-East, Yemen on June 14, 2011 |
PAKISTAN: Pakistanis flee troubled areas near Afghan border
Posted in Afghanistan, Central Asia, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Government, Gunfire, Insurgents, Internal Displaced Persons, Mortars, Pakistan, tagged Civilian Casualties, Displacement, militants, Mortar Shells, Pakistan, Pakistan military on April 18, 2011 |
Associated Press, By Nahal Toosi and Ishtiaq Mahsud April 18, 2011 PESHAWAR, Pakistan — When a mortar shell killed three people at his neighbor’s house, Munir Khan knew it was time for him and his family to pack up and leave his village near the Afghan border. In doing so, they joined around 1 million [...]
SOMALIA: Fighting limits access to Bakara market
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.
SOMALIA/KENYA: UN Women Head Raises Alarm on Insecurity Facing Somali Refugee Women and Girls in Kenya
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bachelet, civilian, Displacement, Government, Kenya, rape, refugee, security, sexual violence, Somalia, UN, women on April 6, 2011 |
UN; Date: 05 Apr 2011 UN Women Executive Director Ms. Michelle Bachelet has raised concerns over insecurity facing Somali women and girls in refugee camps in Kenya.
SRI LANKA: Older returnees face isolation, poverty
Posted in Displacement, Health Care, Internal Displaced Persons, Sri Lanka, United Nations, tagged Displacement, LTTE, Sri Lanka, Tamil civilians, Tamil Tigers, United Nations on April 1, 2011 |
COLOMBO, 30 March 2011 (IRIN) – Thousands of older returnees to Sri Lanka’s conflict-affected north feel marginalized and need medical care, experts say.
