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Flood Situation Report No.15 – 11 December, 2006

FEB 02, 2007

Main Developments Two WFP helicopters that have been stationed in Wajid for emergency airlift operations is about to be moved to Kismayo. This move ...

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Situation Report No.18 – 27 December, 2006

FEB 02, 2007

Heavy fighting in Somalia entered its eighth day today, with TFG/Ethiopian forces taking Jowhar (Middle Shabelle) from the ICU. TFG/Ethiopia forces a...

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Situation Report No. 21 – 5 January, 2007

FEB 02, 2007

Although there has been no wide-spread conflict in Somalia in the last number of days, reports continue of serious security incidents. On 2 January, a...

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Situation Report No.23 – 12 January, 2007

FEB 02, 2007

Military operations, including the recent US air strikes on southern Somalia, have further complicated humanitarian access to populations in need of a...

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Situation Report NO.24 – 16 January, 2007

FEB 02, 2007

Following a UN multi-agency mission to Mogadishu on 16 January, the second in a week, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia has stressed that the i...

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Situation Report NO.25 – 19 January, 2007

FEB 02, 2007

Following a UN multi-agency mission to Mogadishu on 16 January, the second in a week, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia has stressed that the i...

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Situation Report No 28 - Feb 02, 2007

FEB 02, 2007

According to the now completed FAO/FSAU post-Deyr 2006/07 assessment, many parts of Somalia – mainly in the north and central regions – are experi...

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Exiled Somali Islamist rejects international forces

FEB 02, 2007

DUBAI, Feb 2 (Reuters) - Exiled Somali Islamist leader Sheikh Sharif Ahmed rejected the deployment of international forces in the Horn of Africa count...

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Islamists’ supporters protest foreign troops in Somalia

FEB 02, 2007

MOGADISHU, Somalia — Hundreds of supporters of Somalia’s ousted Islamic courts council demonstrated in the capital yesterday against an imminent d...

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U.S. looks at diplomatic presence in Somalia

FEB 02, 2007

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is considering whether to have a diplomatic presence in Somalia, where Islamists were ousted from the capital...

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