VOA News | July 28, 2011
At least six people are reported to have been killed in the Somali capital Mogadishu, as African Union and government forces battle to protect the flow of food aid against militant attacks.
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SOMALIA: 6 Killed in Battle to Keep Somali Aid Flowing
Posted in Africa, AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Ethiopia, Foreign Aid, Government, Gunfire, Horn of Africa, Kenya, Refugee Camps, Somalia, United Nations, tagged African Union, African Union forces, aid, Al-Shaabab, emergency, famine, horn of Africa, Mogadishu, refugees, Somalia, United Nations, World Food Programme on July 28, 2011 |
SRI LANKA: Long struggle for displaced Sri Lankan Tamils
Posted in Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, NGOs, Property Damage, Refugee Camps, Southeast Asia, Sri Lanka, Uncategorized, United Nations, tagged assistance, emergency, food aid, IDPs, infrastructure, reconstruction, resettlement, return, sanitation, Sri Lanka, UN on May 4, 2010 |
BBC. 07:10 GMT, Tuesday, 4 May 2010 08:10 UK
In northern Sri Lanka, 80,000 war-displaced people still live in army-run camps, waiting while their devastated land is cleared of mines and jungle. Tens of thousands are now beginning to resettle near the homes they fled from, but it is not easy, says the BBC’s Charles Haviland. (more…)
CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC: Armed bandits force tens of thousands of Central Africans to flee homes
Posted in Africa, Central African Republic, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Ground Assault, Insurgents, Looting, Property Damage, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Nations, tagged Africa, CAR, Central African Republic, conflict, crisis, Displacement, emergency, human rights, humanitarian relief, OCHA, press release, refugees, United Nations, war on May 23, 2008 |
Armed bandits force tens of thousands of Central Africans to flee homes
UN
23 May 2008 –A surge since the start of the year in the number of attacks by armed bandits across the north of the Central African Republic (CAR) is forcing tens of thousands of people to flee their homes and has brought economic activity to a standstill in large parts of the already impoverished and strife-torn country, the United Nations relief wing reports today. (more…)
