AP | Abdi Guled and Katherine Houreld| August 5, 2011 Somali government troops opened fire Friday on hungry civilians, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for food at a U.N. distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said.
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SOMALIA: Gunfire Said to Kill 7 as Aid is Looted in Somalia
Posted in Africa, AMISOM, Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Government, Gunfire, Horn of Africa, Looting, Military, Somalia, Targeted Death, Targeted Injury, United Nations, tagged African Union, Al-Shaabab, Civilian Casualties, famine, humanitarian aid, IDPs, International Committee of the Red Cross, refugees, Somalia, the United Nations, World Food Programme on August 5, 2011 |
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 |
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 [...]
YEMEN: UNHCR worried about refugees and displaced people in strife-torn Yemen
Posted in Civilian Casualties, Displacement, Internal Displaced Persons, Middle-East, Yemen, tagged civilian deaths, IDPs, Middle-East, refugees, Somalia, UNHCR, Yemen on June 9, 2011 |
Yemen Times | June 9, 2011 Two refugees are among those killed in recent clashes in Yemen that have displaced thousands of Yemenis and refugees alike. The UN refugee agency has expressed alarm at the deteriorating situation, which is affecting its ability to help these vulnerable groups. “In Al-Hasaba, north of [Yemen’s capital] Sana’a city, [...]
LIBYA: African migrants fleeing Libya need urgent support – IOM
Posted in Displacement, Foreign Aid, Health Care, Internal Displaced Persons, Libya, tagged IDP camps, IDPs, Libya on April 28, 2011 |
Reuters, By George Fominyen 27 April 2011 DAKAR (AlertNet) – Tens of thousands of African migrants fleeing from the conflict in Libya into northern Niger and Chad need urgent help but there is no infrastructure to manage the influx into the small border towns, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) says.
LIBYA: More civilians flee Libya’s Western Mountains, new aid reaches the east
Posted in Libya, Military, tagged Civilian Casualties, Foreign Aid, IDPs, Libya on April 27, 2011 |
UN News room 26 April 2011 GENEVA, April 26 (UNHCR) – The number of civilians fleeing to southern Tunisia to escape fighting and shelling in Libya’s Western Mountains within the past month has passed the 30,000 mark.
