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Today the main story where i live is about refugees from our neighbouring country Somali, the number of displaced persons is over one million and according to the Government Spokesman Mr. Alfred Mutua the trek is due to hunger. Some of the affected people having walked over 100s of Kiliometres yet they are Women and Children. He also says the Border is closed though no refugees have been returned but the situation is grave and camps should be built in Somalia. What do we do, please consider sending one unit of your national currency or more to the nearest Red cross or Red Cresent association near you. Jambo it is now 5/8/2011 about two weeks since the first post, what a response to the request for support, this is really encouraging. By 5th August 2011, the Kenyan public have through an initiative of Kenyans for Kenyans raised Kshs 100million through an M pesa initiative.

The news of the attack was revealed first on Twitter. On Aug. 2, Mohamed Mohamoud Sheik, 31, an entrepreneur and youth activist, was assaulted by unknown gunmen near the Benadir junction in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. He was later pronounced dead after undergoing surgery at a local hospital. Mohamed’s death dealt the country and its people a big blow. He was a pioneer, a believer in a better Somalia, a passionate advocate for Mogadishu, and a rebel determined to create a better future out of the rubble of a devastating civil war. His story, his work, and his ultimate killing represent the tragic fate of a city struggling between a brutal past, an uncertain present, and the urgent need to redefine its future. In 2012, aged 25, Mohamed came into the limelight when he opened Somalia’s first dry cleaner in decades.

Before the civil war in Somalia, the capital, Mogadishu, was known for its wide beaches, fresh sea air and pure blue ocean water. Today, however, large amounts of trash are spreading everywhere. Mogadishu is home to two million people. It produces about 2,500 tons of useless waste every day. But, until recently, it did not have an official place to put waste material or a trash recycling center. Instead, people have been leaving trash on the streets, placing it along the coast or into the Indian Ocean. VOA’s Somali Service recently reported on the problem. It found pictures of workers throwing trash into the water. Other pictures show huge amounts of cans, bottles, boxes, metal and other waste along the coastline. Sometimes the trash burns, causing smoke and a bad smell to float into the city.

After my publishers (Frances Lincoln) read the first draft of ‘From Somalia, with love’, they called me in for a meeting to discuss it. It was then that it emerged that one of the editors actually thought I was half Somali. And that ignorance about Somali culture is found everywhere, amongst Muslims and non-Muslims. So, the question remains: how did Somali culture end up being the inspiration and focal point for a book by an ajnabi? Working in East London first introduced me to Somalis (this is a story I tell in my book ‘From My Sisters’ Lips’) but living in South London brought me into closer contact with them. I fell in love with the Somali women I knew: their strength of character, their beauty, their love for the Qur’an, their seeming fearlessness: so many of them reminded my of my mother. But these were women who were my age and older. In order to write FSWL and make it believable, I needed an authentic voice: the voice of a fairly typical Somali teenager. And I knew just where to find that: the Somali forums online. Nothing could have prepared me for that!

My favourite television shows are documentaries about Greenpeace and other anti-whaling activists as they invent ways to halt indiscriminate maiming of sharks, whales, and the environment. Believe it or not, many current perpetrators of piracy were once environmental activists also. In fact just five years ago Somali-based fishermen were ramming fishing boats in protest—those that fished illegally off the horn of Africa. When the perpetrators retaliated with lethal force, the fishermen fought back. That initial ramming of ships and retaliation of fishing vessels has now grown into full scale Indian Ocean pirating. REVENGE FOR THE FIRST HOT WATER ATTACK. In early 2004, confrontations in the Gulf of Eden between local Somali fishermen and commercial fishermen (mostly the illegal ones) were frequent. That remote no-man’s seaway is now a lawless frontier for the bad, brave and brazen.

Oxfam’s improvement work complements our humanitarian interventions to handle the underlying causes of poverty and injustice, while working to realize the potential of all people in Somalia. The EU is engaged in Somalia by means of a complete method based mostly on energetic diplomacy, assist for political change, enhancing security, development help and humanitarian help. Oxfam has been working in Somalia for over forty years with local communities, civil society and native authorities, delivering humanitarian assistance and longer-term growth initiatives. Of a inhabitants of approximately eleven million people, 2.6 million are displaced and a complete of 5.4 million are in need of humanitarian help. 20 million price of bribes and tilted in direction of the return of incumbent Hassan Sheikh Mohamud. The world’s problems are tougher than ever, however we additionally see an unprecedented alternative to deliver a world full of amazing individuals collectively to work on these hard challenges. You will discover methods to get to know us and get involved or reach out to an ARC team member to easily ask a query or inquire about how we might work collectively. Please use the information provided as a information however know that on the American Refugee Committee we remain open to new and other ways of giving.

Want to receive more corruption report updates? Somalia ranks among the world’s most corrupt countries. Insecurity is also a major issue; the ongoing instability greatly restricts business. Corrupt government officials tolerate illegal activities in return for bribes. Dysfunctional institutions facilitate an environment of lawlessness, and the absence of any form of regulatory framework hinders prospects of economic competitiveness. Business is based on patronage networks, and tight monopolies dominate the market. Somalia’s Provisional Constitution criminalizes several forms of corruption (including abuse of office, embezzlement and bribery); however, implementation is non-existent.

Last week, President Obama announced that the United States plans to deal with the ISIS threat with a similar strategy to what they have been implementing in Somalia to combat Al Shabaab. This decision has been met with scrutiny, as it is not clear how truly successful or effective the strategy in Somalia has been. The violence has remained high in Somalia since late 2010, having increased manifold. Figure 3 maps where these events have been occurring in the past year. Suggesting that these areas have still not become safer for civilians despite government and allied efforts. In this light, it is important to consider what conflict in Somalia means for civilians, especially with the heightened violence that they endure as a result. ] explosives were detonated by Al Shabaab last week in their efforts to attack government ally forces traveling in a convoy. The group stated that they carried out the attack targeting American officials who were travelling with the convoy, aiming to avenge for the killing of their leader Godane. These locations were identified in ACLED coded data as having been seized by government and aligned forces during the period under review.

Apart from killing about 300 people and destroying thousands of homes, the waves broke up rusting barrels and other containers and hazardous waste dumped along the long, remote shoreline, a spokesman for the United Nations Environment Programme (Unep) said. “Initial reports indicate that the tsunami waves broke open containers full of toxic waste and scattered the contents. We are talking about everything from medical waste to chemical waste products,” Nick Nuttal, the Unep spokesman, told The Times. “We know this material is on the land and is now being blown around and possibly carried to villages. Mr Nuttall said that a UN assessment mission that recently returned from the lawless African country, which has had no government since 1991, reported that several Somalis in the northern areas were ill with diseases consistent with radiation sickness. “We need more information. We need to find out what has been going on there, but there is real cause for concern,” he added.

Somalia is a country located in the Horn of Africa. The official name of the country is the Federal Republic of Somalia. It is bordered by Ethiopia to the west, Djibouti to the northwest, the Gulf of Aden to the north, the Indian Ocean to the east, and Kenya to the southwest. Somalia has two official languages: Somali and Arabic. As of 1 January 2017, the population of Somalia was estimated to be 11,162,368 people. It is the 43rd largest country in the world in terms of land area with 637,657 square kilometers (246,201 square miles). Mogadishu is the capital and most populous city of Somalia. Located in the coastal Banaadir region on the Indian Ocean, the city has served as an important port for millennia. The terrain of the country is mainly broken into plateaus, plains and highlands. The Cal Madow mountain range sits in the northeast, and contains the highest peak of Somalia – Shimbiris at 2,460 meters (8,071 feet).