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|
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.
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 30 to a classroom, eat what a local charity brings to the school — beans with bread, rice with fish or meat — and await clothes to replace what they left behind.
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, two Somali refugees were killed in the fighting last week,” said UNHCR spokesman Adrian Edwards at a news briefing in Geneva on Friday. “They were a 14-year-old boy and a young woman who had fled the violence in Somalia to seek refuge in Yemen.”
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
Posted in Afghanistan, Displacement, Insurgents, Internal Displaced Persons, Middle-East, NATO/Allies, tagged Afghanistan, IDPs, ISAF, NATO allies, us military on April 26, 2011|
IRIN
21 April, 2011
KABUL, 21 April 2011 (IRIN) – One irony of the current security situation in Afghanistan is that foreign forces, whose ostensible aim is to protect civilians while fighting the Taliban, may be responsible – directly or indirectly – for the bulk of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the country, whose number is rising. (more…)
Posted in Africa, AMISOM, Displacement, Foreign Aid, Government, Internal Displaced Persons, NGOs, Somalia, tagged Al Shabab, IDPs, internally dislaced people, NGOs, Somalia on April 15, 2011|
The displaced include hundreds of families who fled the capital, Mogadishu, and had to flee again when Dobley recently became a battle-ground between the Islamist opposition Al-Shabab and a pro-government militia, the Raskambone Group. (more…)
