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16 November 2011 - 11:58amThe dark clouds of the seasonal gu rains may be on the horizon earlier than expected, but for many people in the village of Docol it’s already too late. Like other pastoralists in Somalia, Nadifa’s life has changed beyond recognition over the past few months. “Life was beautiful, we had... -
11 November 2011 - 12:41pmThree years after Mark Bowden first arrived in Somalia, he finds himself at the centre of the deepest and most acute humanitarian emergency in the world. On 20 July, a famine was declared in large parts of the south, and the situation has continued to deteriorate. Tens of thousands of people have died,... -
10 November 2011 - 11:56amOne hundred days after famine was declared in parts of southern Somalia, humanitarian agencies have reached more than half of the four million people who urgently need help. But after months of drought, agencies are now struggling to tackle a rise in cholera and other water-borne diseases due to seasonal... -
6 October 2011 - 7:44pmAid agencies have been able to scale up activities in the last few weeks, despite widespread insecurity and restricted access to people in some parts of the country. The latest reports estimate that around two million people have now received food and other assistance since the famine was declared in July... -
25 September 2011 - 11:54amLeaders from more than 60 countries came together Saturday at a United Nations mini-Summit on the crisis in the Horn of Africa, chaired by Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, Valerie Amos, to raise awareness of the scale and urgency of the humanitarian...
