Yemeni group receives prestigious UN award for assisting refugees – UN News

Laaska News  Sept. 14,2011

The Society for Humanitarian Solidarity patrols 600 km of the Yemeni coast to help boat arrivals on the Gulf of Aden and Red Sea.

Somalia:Madaxweyne Shariif oo qaabilay wafdi ka socday hey’adda UNHCR

Laaska News  Sept. 1,2011

Somalia:UNHCR airlifts more emergency food supplies to Somalia

Laaska News  August 31,2011
by Peter Mutai
NAIROBI, Aug. 30 (Xinhua) — The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said on Tuesday it is airlifting 240 metric tonnes of aid from Saudi Arabia to Somalia over the Eid period to help famine-stricken Somalis.

SOMALIA:UNHCR says Somali exodus slows in Horn of Africa

Laaska News  August 27,2011
 by Peter Mutai
NAIROBI, Aug. 26 (Xinhua) — The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) has noted an evolving displacement pattern during August with

Somalia’s famine may deteriorate further, senior UN official warns

Laaska News  August 11,2011
UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 10 (Xinhua) — A senior UN official on Wednesday warned that the famine in Somalia has not seen “the peak of the crisis as further deterioration is considered likely.”

Somalia:UN begins humanitarian airlift to Somalia

Laaska News  August 10,2011
GENEVA, Aug. 9 (Xinhua) — A plane carrying humanitarian aid supplies had landed in the Somali capital of Mogadishu, the Geneva-based United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) announced on Tuesday.

Somalia:UNHCR airlifts emergency food aid to Mogadishu

Laaska News  August 9,2011
MOGADISHU, Aug. 8 (Xinhua) — The UN refugee agency on Monday began airlifting emergency humanitarian aid to the Somali capital Mogadishu, the first undertaken by the world body in five years.

Nearly half of fund appeal on east Africa famine complete: OCHA

Laaska News  August 6,2011
GENEVA, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — The overall appeal put up by the UN-led humanitarian cluster to tackle famine in Horn of Africa (HOA) had been 45

Somalia:UNHCR set to airlift humanitarian aid to Somalia

Laaska News  August 6,2011
by Chrispine Omar
NAIROBI, Aug. 5 (Xinhua) — The United Nations refugee agency UNHCR said its humanitarian airlift to Somalia, a first in more than five years, is scheduled

Somalia:Fighting hampers UN humanitarian assistance to Mogadishu

Laaska News  August 3,2011
GENEVA, Aug. 2 (Xinhua) — Humanitarian assistance by the United Nations to the drought inflicted Somali capital Mogadishu has been severely limited by the ongoing fighting, the Geneva-based UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday.