UN fears dramatic rise in Somalia famine refugees

GENEVA – The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a U.N. aid official said Tuesday. The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in ...

Related News:-

• UN declares famine in southern Somalia


A handout picture taken and released on July 20, 2011 by the African Union - United Nations Information Support Team shows women rushing for a feeding centre after ...

• UN: Somalia hit by the worst famine in 20 years


A severe drought has been devastating the horn of Africa. The dramatic situation obligated the United Nations to declare famine in two regions of southern Somalia today ...

• Rains add misery to Somalia's famine refugees - seattlepi.com


MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) — Tens of thousands of famine-stricken Somali refugees were cold and drenched after torrential rains pounded their makeshift structures in the ...

• Rains add to famine misery in Somalia | BreakingNews.ie


Tens of thousands of famine-stricken Somali refugees were cold and drenched after torrential rains pounded their makeshift structures overnight and today in the capital ...

• Somalia // Current


Discover, create, and post news about Somalia on Current and influence what airs on TV

• Somali Refugees Fill UN Camp in Ethiopia Within One Month


Somali Refugees Fill UN Camp in Ethiopia Within One Month. A refugee camp opened on the Somalia-Ethiopia border at the end of June is already full, forcing the United ...

• Daily Media Monitoring » AMISOM


Key Headlines: Somalia: emergency relief for over a million people; MSF distributes relief to families in Jilib; Al Shabaab demand money from farmers in Middle Jubba

• Somalia online: 2.5 million face starvation in Somalia, PM tells UN


UNITED NATIONS — Somalia's prime minister told the UN Security Council on Friday that the new government is winning its war with Islamist militants but that ...

• Takes courage to be a refugee


But the camps are struggling to cope with the continuing influx and the UN refugee agency is urgently constructing a fourth camp at Heloweyn to provide shelter for up to ...