Access to food key challenge as IDP numbers in Afgoye rise

(IRIN) – With aid groups having pulled out of camps for internally displaced people and more people fleeing violence in Mogadishu, the plight of IDPs is at its most extreme, say civil society sources and local aid workers in the Somali capital, Mogadishu.

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Hard life for Somali refugees in Ali Addeh camp

(IRIN) – Amina Ahmed Barre, a Somali refugee, sews clothes on her sewing machine out in the open, in temperatures of more than 30 degrees. There is not a tree in sight in the camp that houses more than 14,000 refugees.

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Somali refugees hope for better life beyond Kharaz camp

(IRIN) – Every year tens of thousands of Somalis risk their lives crossing the Gulf of Aden to reach Yemen in their search for safety and a better life. Many die atrocious deaths – beaten, thrown overboard, eaten by sharks, drowned or asphyxiated in the hold of crowded smuggler boats.

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Mogadishu women eke out a living among the shells

(IRIN) – At 75, Aagan Mahamud is at an age when, in Somali culture, her children should be taking care of her. Instead, Mahamud is looking after six grandchildren.

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Perilous journey to “land of milk and honey” ends in deportations

(IRIN) – Hawa Aden left Bosasso, a Somali port city in the self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, in 2009 on a dangerous boat journey across the Gulf of Aden to Yemen, and then trekked 20 days to reach Saudi Arabia.

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A Million Shillings

Over the past 10 years, British photojournalist, Alixandra Fazzina has roamed Africa and the Middle East, chronicling the plight of the displaced. In July this year, the UN’s High Commission for Refugees gave her the prestigious Nansen Refugee award for her extraordinary images of human suffering and resilience in Kosovo, Angola, Sierra Leone, Afghanistan and beyond. (The prize of $100,000 is donated to a cause of the winner’s choice.)

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Fierce street fighting in Somalia

Fierce fighting has been raging in the Somali capital Mogadishu between government forces and insurgents, leaving at least 17 people dead and dozens wounded.

Violent street battles took place between African Union troops and Islamist rebels, with many running for cover as the sound of heavy artillery could be heard overhead and on the streets from armoured vehicles.

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Viewing Of World Cup Banned In Somalia

World Cup fever is all over Africa, but not in war-torn Somalia, where Islamic insurgents have declared the ongoing FIFA tournament sacrilegious. The Al-Qaeda linked groups of Al-Shabaab and Hizbul Islam, which control most of southern Somalia and parts of the capital Mogadishu, have banned both public and private viewing of the tournament. “We are warning all the youths of Somalia not to dare watch these World Cup matches,” Hizbul Islam spokesman Mohamed Abdi Aros told the BBC. “It is a waste of money and time, and they will not benefit anything or get any experience by watching madmen jumping up and down.” Offenders will be given 30 strokes in public. Already two fans have died in an attack and dozens others arrested when they were caught secretly watching the Argentina-Nigeria game last Saturday. According to AfricaNews, some diehard Somali football supporters are risking their lives to sneak into the government-controlled territories where the directive does not prevail.

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Thousands displaced by rains and clashes

(IRIN) – Renewed militia fighting and heavy rains in Somalia’s central regions of Hiiraan and Galgadud have forced thousands of people to abandon their homes, say officials.

Locals told IRIN fresh fighting between pro-government Ahlu Sunna Waljama’a – a traditional Sufi movement – and Al-Shabab broke out in Galgadud region on 3 June and continued for two days.

“Our estimate is that about 5,000 families [30,000] have fled the towns of Dusamareb, Eil Dheer, Mareer Gur and Gadon and Bula’le and are now displaced,” Abdulkadir Mohamud, an official of a local NGO known as Towfiq, said in Dusamareb, the regional capital.

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Somalia’s endangered journalists get a safe Media House

(Alshahid) – In view of the danger that the few bold journalists remaining in war- torn Somalia face, a new media house has been opened in Mogadishu capital of Somalia to provide Somali journalists with a safe place to work, as well as a center for journalism training.

“Opening this media house at this challenging time is a courageous and bold step taken by Somali journalists,” said Yusuf Aynte, a Member of Parliament. “This house will assist them as they continue to devote their services to the country”.

The Executive Director of the media house, Abdulahi Hassan, said during its launch that its purpose was twofold: to provide journalists with a safe working environment and to offer training so as to improve their skills in journalism.

Journalists will have a place to work, to stay and to access state-of -art equipment necessary to conduct their work.

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