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  • UN Envoy to Somalia encouraged by firm commitment to Vision 2016 timetable

    news UNSOM, 18 Mar 2015 (8 years ago )
    Mogadishu, 18 March 2015 – The Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Somalia (SRSG), Nicholas Kay, welcomed firm commitments made by Somalia’s Federal and regional leaders to meet key Vision 2016 deadlines to complete Somalia’s federal state formation process, and review the provisi...
  • UN says Yemen 'on verge of total collapse'

    news Aljazeera: Agencies, 01 Apr 2015 (8 years ago )
    An earlier version of this article mentioned that MSF had received more than 550 patients in Aden since March 19 "as a result of the Saudi-led bombing". This mention was removed, as this line was not in the original MSF statement. UN rights chief has said that Yemen is "on the verge of total coll...
  • Don't let the US try and solve Arab world problems

    news Aljazeera, 31 Mar 2015 (8 years ago )
    Just a decade ago, in June 2005, Condoleezza Rice visited Cairo to make what the State Department had advertised as a major foreign policy address. "For 60 years," the US secretary of state declared, the United States had "pursued stability at the expense of democracy in this region here in the M...
  • Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis - treatment in Dadaab Refugee Camps

    news CDC - Center for Disease Control and Prevention, 23 Mar 2015 (8 years ago )
    UNHCR has a Multi Drug Resistant Tuberculosis (MDR TB) Center in Ifo Camp. This article links TB to the conflict in Somalia. "A drug resistance survey conducted in 2011 in Somalia showed that the country had the highest rate of MDR TB infection on the African continent. MDR TB develops when a patie...
  • Deadly attack targets UN staff in Somalia's Puntland

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 20 Apr 2015 (7 years ago )
    At least seven people have been killed in an attack on a UN vehicle in Garowe, the capital of Puntland in northeastern Somalia, local security sources told Al Jazeera. Four UNICEF staff members were among the dead and four other staff members were in a serious condition, the United Nations Childr...
  • Yemen's Saleh declares alliance with Houthis

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 11 May 2015 (7 years ago )
    Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, has formally announced an alliance with Houthi fighters for the first time, after the Arab coalition launched two air strikes on his home in the capital, Sanaa. Saleh, who was forced to step aside in 2012 following a year of deadly nationwide protest...
  • Air strikes target ex-Yemen president Saleh's residence

    news Al Jazeera and agencies, 10 May 2015 (7 years ago )
    Warplanes from the coalition led by Saudi Arabia has bombed the residence of Ali Abdullah Saleh in the capital, Sanaa, but Yemen's former president is believed to be safe, witnesses have said. Three air strikes hit Saleh's residence early on Sunday morning, but the president and his family are "w...
  • Yemen conflict: MSF hospital destroyed by air strikes

    news BBC, 27 Oct 2015 (7 years ago )
    The first, which occurred around 22:30 (19:30 GMT) on Monday, hit part of the facility in Saada province that was not being used, according to the charity. All staff and patients had been evacuated by the time the second strike hit about 10 minutes later. However, the Saudi-led coalition battling ...
  • Yemeni refugees seek shelter in Djibouti

    news Oualid Khelifi/UNHCR - Aljazeera, 14 Nov 2015 (7 years ago )
    Markazi refugee camp, Djibouti - As fighting intensifies in Yemen, over 120,000 people have fled since April. Around 30,000 of those have sought safety across the Gulf of Aden in Djibouti. Since late September, the population of Markazi camp near the Djiboutian coastal town of Obock has quadruple...
  • UNHCR initiated an innovative pilot project, the IDEAS BOX, in Dollo Ado

    news UNHCR, 18 Dec 2015 (7 years ago )
    In Dollo Ado, UNHCR initiated an innovative pilot project, the IDEAS BOX, a multi-media library, for Somali refugee children and youth. The project is implemented by Save the Children and Libraries without Borders, in coordination with UNHCR Innovations Unit in Geneva. Facilitated by the governmen...