HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-up 358 for 6-12
January, 2007
Source: IRIN
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NAIROBI, 12 January (IRIN) - CONTENTS: DJIBOUTI: Cholera kills five in southwest KENYA-SOMALIA: Fighting halts effort to verify deadly fever
SOMALIA: Children, women most affected by fighting
SOMALIA: Security problems may affect aid plans
SUDAN: Government, rebels agree Darfur
ceasefire
SUDAN-UGANDA: LRA rebels should leave Sudanese territory - Bashir DJIBOUTI: Cholera kills five in southwest An outbreak of cholera in Yokobi, southwest of the Djibouti capital, has
killed five people and affected at least 40 more, who are under medical investigation, the Djibouti health ministry said. Health minister Abdallah Abdillahi Miguil said the disease had been
confirmed in Yokobi, a village near the Ethiopian border, about 170 km from Djibouti city. "A task-force was urgently sent to the area," the minister said in a statement. [Full story at:
http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56949] KENYA-SOMALIA: Fighting halts effort to verify deadly fever Fighting in southern Somalia has hampered efforts to confirm a possible spread of
Rift Valley Fever (RVF) from neighbouring Kenya to the Lower Juba Region where seven people have died after showing symptoms of the rare, contagious haemorrhagic disease, Somali health officials said. The deaths were reported in Dobley, 18 km north of the Kenyan border, in the last five days. "The dead are mainly nomadic herders," said Hassan Mursal, a clinical officer in nearby Afmadow hospital.
[Full story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56968] SOMALIA: Children, women most affected by fighting Scores of women and children have been separated from their families or
wounded in fighting between Somali government forces and remnants of the Union of Islamic Courts (UIC), sources said. A source in southern Somalia, close to the area where air strikes have hit
suspected UIC bases, told IRIN on Friday that some civilians, including women and children, "have been killed and others wounded".
[Full story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57042] SOMALIA: Security problems may affect aid plans Aid agencies in Somalia expect to reach hundreds of thousands of vulnerable people but insecurity may limit their access, the United Nations Office
for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has warned. "Right now humanitarian access is not guaranteed; it is still precarious in many parts of the country," Philippe Lazzarini, head of
OCHA in Somalia, said on Monday. [Full story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=56957] SUDAN: Government, rebels agree Darfur ceasefire The Sudanese government and rebels in the
war-ravaged western region of Darfur rebels have agreed a ceasefire as a first step towards ending the violence that has affected millions of people, a senior US official said in the capital,
Khartoum. The government has also agreed to ease entry visa requirements for aid workers, and stop the requirement for exit visas, Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico State, who has been in Sudan
on a four-day visit, said. He has been leading a delegation from the US advocacy group, the Save Darfur Coalition. [Full story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57035] SUDAN-UGANDA:
LRA rebels should leave Sudanese territory - Bashir The president of Sudan wants the Ugandan rebel Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), which has bases in southern Sudan and eastern Democratic Republic of
Congo, out of its territory. In the southern Sudanese capital of Juba on Tuesday, President Omar El-Bashir said: "We are prepared to constitute a joint force to eliminate the LRA. We do not want
them. If we cannot find a peaceful solution to the LRA conflict, then we must pursue a military solution." [Full story at: http://www.irinnews.org/report.asp?ReportID=57024]
