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International Committee of the Red Cross Suspends Aid Deliveries in Somalia
One of the few aid agencies excluded from a ban imposed by Al-Shabaab insurgents in Somalia has suspended food and seed distributions to 1.1m people in the south and centre of the country after local authorities repeatedly blocked its deliveries.
Insecurity Undermines Aid Access in Dadaab, Kenya
Humanitarian activities in the world’s largest refugee complex have been restricted to essential services amid worsening security exemplified by the October 13 abduction of two Spanish aid workers and the earlier abduction of a Kenyan NGO driver in...
United Nations Promises to Increase Influence in Somalia
Amid the worst ever humanitarian situation in Somalia, the visiting United Nations (UN) under secretary general for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, said in Mogadishu on Saturday that the UN will increase its influence...
UNHCR Airlifts Aid to Mogadishu
The UN Refugee Agency, UNHCR, will fly its first humanitarian airlift to Somalia in five years next week, the agency said at a briefing in Geneva on Friday. The first of three planned flights is scheduled to land in the Somali capital, Mogadishu, on August...
Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Begins Airlifting Emergency Relief Aid to Kenya
The first of a series of United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) emergency airlift flights carrying emergency relief aid to uprooted Somalis in remote refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia began Sunday with the arrival in Nairobi of a giant...
World Food Programme Considering Returning to Somalia
The World Food Programme (WFP) said on Wednesday that it is considering returning to Somalia to continue its humanitarian operations there.
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Opens Third New Refugee Camp in Ethiopia
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in Ethiopia said on Friday in Addis Ababa that it has opened a third new refugee camp in south-east for the arriving Somalia refugees that flee the conflict and the humanitarian situation in their...
Drought Now a Major Cause of Displacement in Somalia
With drought spreading to almost all regions of Somalia, officials and aid workers have expressed concern for those affected, saying drought was now a major cause of displacement.
