HOA: IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-up 389 for 30 June – 6 July 2007
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NAIROBI, 6 July
2007 (IRIN) - CONTENTS: DJIBOUTI: Clean water for 25,000 people
SUDAN: Tents sent to thousands left homeless by flash floods
ISRAEL-SUDAN: Government to turn back refugees at border
SOMALIA: NGO
suspends relief work due to security concerns
SOMALIA: Violence forcing residents out of the capital again See also:
GLOBAL: Number of desperately poor in Africa has 'levelled off' – UN http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73032SOMALIA: Harnessing community power
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73037
DJIBOUTI: Clean water for 25,000 people In a bid
to alleviate the problem of perennial water scarcity among poor residents of rural Djibouti, aid donors, the government and a UN agency are backing a project to provide clean drinking water to an
estimated 25,000 people. Djibouti, a semi-desert state in the Horn of Africa, experiences frequent drought and most of its water supply is derived from ground water sources, which most poor rural
communities have difficulty accessing. The new project, to be completed in 2008, is funded by the European Union and implemented by the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) and Djibouti's Ministry
of Agriculture. It will boost the capacity of the country's 61 diesel-powered pumps, which break down frequently, with 25 new solar-power pumps.
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report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73054 SUDAN: Tents sent to thousands left homeless by flash floods Amid fears that the River Nile could inundate areas near Khartoum, the
Sudanese Red Crescent on 5 July sent hundreds of tents to Rabak, south of the city, where flash floods have left thousands homeless. Sudanese authorities have forecast worse floods this year than in
2006, when the Nile reached a record high. Khartoum registered a level higher than two previous records - 1988 and 1946 - and 27 people died. The areas likely to be affected include Kassala in east
Sudan, North Kordofan and Jazeera State, south of the capital. State news agencies reported that officials were making arrangements to mitigate the likely effects of the rising waters.
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report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73096 ISRAEL-SUDAN: Government to turn back refugees at border A decision by the Israeli government may place hundreds of refugees and
asylum seekers from Africa at risk, legal experts and aid workers warned this week. According to the new plan, announced on 1 July, Israel will return to Egypt "infiltrators" crossing the
countries' joint border. A government communiqué said they would be "quickly" deported and indicated they would not be able to make an asylum claim in Israel. Accordingly, the
Israeli security forces have been instructed to arrest and send back all those crossing the border, and to detain those who cannot be immediately returned. Full report
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73078 SOMALIA: NGO suspends relief work due to security concerns The International Medical Corps (IMC) has temporarily suspended all its activities in
and around the Somali town of El-Berde, 420km northwest of the capital Mogadishu, citing security concerns. "All IMC staff members employed in El-Berde have been urged to relocate immediately
and have been offered help in evacuating to safer areas," the medical charity stated. IMC's decision to suspend its programmes in El-Berde comes a week after one of its staff members and a
driver were killed in the town.
Full report http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=73093 SOMALIA: Violence forcing residents out of the capital again Residents of Mogadishu, who
had returned to the Somali capital after fleeing recent fighting between government forces and insurgents, are leaving the city again amid continuing violence, local sources said. "There has
been an increase in the number of displaced who have returned to the camp in the past 30 days," said Hawa Abdi, a doctor, whose 26-hectare compound, 20km south of Mogadishu, is home to thousands
of internally displaced persons (IDPs). "There were about 12,000 people sheltering in the compound in May, but there are now double this figure," she told IRIN on 4 July.
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