In the Somalia section of the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs website, you can find out what's happening with aid on the ground, the latest security situation and who's doing what where.

The World Health Organisation Somalia site has information about which NGOs are working in Somalia and what the WHO is doing there.

For more information on health, read the WHO 2007 Somalia report.

Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres has a section on Somalia with vivid accounts of what life is like for health workers in Somalia. The most recent are under 'Latest Info'.

The Food Security Analysis Unit-Somalia has detailed information about the country's food crisis.

Refugees International has some useful reports on Somalia.

If you want to know more about the war, the militia groups, and the global "war on terrorism", the International Crisis Group has detailed reports.

The Council on Foreign Relations has a backgrounder of who's who in Somalia's power struggle.

To find out about the 1990s U.N. mission to Somalia, and for a detailed backgrounder to the war, visit the mission's webpage.

The U.N. Children's Fund has some useful information about children in Somalia.

There are some excellent reports on how the lack of a functioning government has affected human rights in Somalia on the Human Rights Watch site.

For news on Somalia click on the news tab at the top of this page. Other good sources are AllAfrica.com and the U.N. news service IRIN.