http://uk.oneworld.net/article/country/706/ en_GB_uk Somalia http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83556 A photoessay reveals the toll 17 years of conflict, political instability, droughts, floods, and an international community struggling to provide aid has taken on Somalia. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/83407 The international community and UN should do more to assist the hundreds of thousands of Ethiopians and Somalis who seek refuge in Yemen, one of the "least developed countries in the world," urges an international refugee agency. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159548/1/ UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress. http://www.oneworld.net/article/view/159514/1/ UNITED NATIONS, Apr 7 (IPS) - The United Nations remains virtually crippled as two proposed peacekeeping missions -- one in Darfur and the other in Somalia -- are making little or no progress. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159432/1/ UNITED NATIONS, Apr 3 (OneWorld) - A leading humanitarian group is calling for the United Nations Security Council to take additional measures to help about 1 million Somalis who have been rendered homeless by the ongoing armed conflict in their country. http://us.oneworld.net/article/view/159146/1/ The crisis engulfing Somalia has deteriorated dramatically since NGOs warned in October of an impending humanitarian catastrophe, the organisations say in a statement aimed at putting pressure on members of the UN Security Council. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82912 Many of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in Somalia are surviving on less than one meal a day, reports the International Committee of the Red Cross, as the protracted conflict in Mogadishu escalates and spreads to other parts of the nation. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82763 The world has largely turned its attention away from humanitarian crises in Somalia, Sri Lanka, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Burma, but the world body shouldn't, said a prominent human rights group this week. From: Human Rights Watch http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82580 Burundi, Rwanda, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, and Uganda -- all highly dependent on Kenya for goods, transport links, and services -- are struggling to cope with the consequences of the east African nation's ongoing political crisis. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82453 Somalia's tenuous security situation got even worse Monday as attacks on the UN compound in Mogadishu compelled the world body and some humanitarian groups to suspend aid operations. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82358 Due to a combination of various factors, including violence, drought, and financial instability, as many as 2 million people in Somalia are currently in dire need of humanitarian aid, report the UN and other humanitarian agencies. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/82245 Three staff members of a leading medical charity have been killed in the Somali town of Kismayo. + Ban Ki-moon deplores killings http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81834 The UN Secretary-General’s Special Representative for Somalia has called for the release of two abducted female staff members of Doctors Without Borders. From UN News http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81800 Three Somali women working at an international emergency relief organization in this eastern African country reflect on gender equality and education in the Horn of Africa. http://us.oneworld.net/link/gotolink/addhit/81676 An estimated 600,000 Somalis have been forced out of their homes in Mogadishu due to a recent resurgence in violence, intensifying the humanitarian crisis brought on by years of civil strife and natural disasters.