HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-up 360 for 20-26
January, 2007
Source: IRIN
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NAIROBI, 26 January (IRIN) - CONTENTS: SOMALIA: Risk of worse crisis in the south -
early warning agency
RWANDA-SOMALIA: President seeks Kigali's help to foster reconciliation
SUDAN: Thousands flee Darfur attacks
SUDAN: Thousands more flee Darfur attacks SOMALIA: Risk of worse
crisis in the south - early warning agency The serious humanitarian crisis in Somalia's Lower Juba region could escalate unless immediate steps are taken to mitigate the effects of multiple shocks
on the pastoralists and agro-pastoralists living there, an early warning agency warned. Months of drought followed by heavy flooding in late 2006 created the crisis, but ongoing conflict in southern
Somalia and the suspected spread of Rift Valley Fever (RVF) from Kenya could exacerbate the situation, the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS Net) said. [Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57173] RWANDA-SOMALIA: President seeks Kigali's help to foster reconciliation Somalia's President Abdullahi Yusuf is on a visit to Rwanda to learn from
that country's experience in national reconciliation and reconstruction and to discuss Rwanda's possible intervention to stop the cycle of violence in the Horn of Africa country, which has been in a
state of civil war since 1991. At a press briefing on Tuesday in the Rwandan capital, Kigali, Yusuf, who was flanked by his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagamé, said the time had come for Somalia
to seek the advice and intervention of other countries in the region to help Somalia in its peacekeeping process and reconstruction and reconciliation efforts.
[Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57178] SUDAN: Thousands flee Darfur attacks Recent attacks on villages in the Sudanese state of West Darfur have forced up to 5,000 people to flee their
homes and seek refuge in two camps around El Geneina, a nongovernmental organisation working in the volatile area said. Medair-Switzerland said about 500 households were reported to have arrived in
Ardamatta Camp, and another 300 in Durti Camp, having fled their homes with very little during the peak of the cold season. [Full story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57179] SUDAN:
Thousands more flee Darfur attacks Recent attacks on villages in the Sudanese state of West Darfur have forced up to 5,000 more people to flee their homes and seek refuge in two camps around El
Geneina, a nongovernmental organisation working in the volatile area said. Medair-Switzerland said about 500 households were reported to have arrived in Ardamatta Camp, and another 300 in Durti
Camp, having fled their homes with very little during the peak of the cold season. [Full story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57179] ah/
