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GUARDIAN Sun, 20 Nov 2011 23:00:03 GMT
Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed gives inside account of forced deals with regimes which abuse human rights
A controversial new book produced by one of the world's best-known aid agencies, Médecins sans Frontières, lifts the lid on the often deeply uncomfortable compromises aid organisations are forced to make while working in conflicts.
How humanitarian aid organisations work – and the sometimes unintended consequences of their actions – has been brutally cross-examined in recent years, not least by the critical Dutch author Linda Polman.
MSF's collection of essays, Humanitarian Negotiations Revealed, has provided the most detailed and self-critical inside account of the deals aid agencies are forced to negotiate, often with groups and regimes which abuse human rights, to continue their work.
Launched to mark the 40th anniversary of the founding of the medical aid agency, the book offers a rare and unflinching portrait of some of MSF's most difficult recent operations,.......
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WN Mon, 07 Nov 2011 21:34:00 GMT
MOGADISHU, Somalia — After years of surviving under the yoke of fundamentalist Islamist militants, Somalis are getting their swagger back. Connect With Us on Twitter Follow @nytimesworld for international breaking news and headlines. Over the weekend, an unexpected sight could be seen along the shores of the capital, Mogadishu. In a city known for shelling, suicide bombs, Sharia law and public executions, hundreds were out enjoying the scenery and sunning themselves at the beach. “For the first time in years,” said Mohamoud Abdi, who came to Mogadishu’s again-popular Lido Beach on Friday with his two sons. “People are feeling delightful.” In a city torn by...
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WN Fri, 04 Nov 2011 15:51:00 GMT
Thousands of Somalis who fled famine, drought and conflict now face the misery of heavy rains and flooding in the region, the UN refugee agency said on Friday. "Thousands of displaced Somalis have been affected by heavy rains and flooding in parts of Somalia, Kenya and Ethiopia," High Commissioner for Refugees spokesman Andrej Mahecic told journalists. In the Somali capital Mogadishu shelters for nearly 2,800 residents of the camp at Sigale have been destroyed, the UNHCR said, while nearly 5,000 people have been flooded out in the vast refugee camp of Dadaab in eastern Kenya. Latrines have also been destroyed, causing a worrying increase in the number of cases of diarrhoea and a general...
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ECONOMIST Wed, 14 Sep 2011 20:17:42 GMT
ACCORDING to a cable leaked last month, the European Union’s man in Ethiopia told his masters that “basic human-rights abuses are being committed by the government on a daily basis” and “the EU must respond firmly and resolutely.” That was in 2005. Neither the EU nor any other Western donor has done anything of the kind. The United States, Germany and Britain have continued to pour money into the country despite the arrest of opposition politicians on trumped-up treason charges, the harassment of ordinary citizens, the curbing of internet access, and heavy spying on universities and workplaces. Sweden is one of the few donors that publicly raises civil liberties.When outsiders do bring up such issues, Meles Zenawi, Ethiopia’s prime minister, responds tartly that, with famine again stalking the Horn of Africa, the right of people to food, shelter, a job and indeed to life itself depends on the stability of the state. To challenge this is sabotage.Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda...
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WN Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:45:00 GMT
October 17, 2011 -- Updated 1505 GMT (2305 HKT) A masked member of the Al Shabaab militia, pictured in a photograph dated December 14, 2008. Narobi, Kenya (CNN) -- Islamic militants in Somalia have threatened to "come into Kenya" if Kenyan forces do not leave Somalia, according to an online message posted on a jihadist website. "Kenyan troops have entered 100 kilometers into Somalia, and their planes are bombarding and killing residents," said Sheikh Ali Mahmud Ragi, spokesman for Al-Shabaab, an...
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ECONOMIST Thu, 13 Oct 2011 09:18:17 GMT
WHERE there are beasts, there is life, goes a saying in Somalia. Half of its people depend on livestock for their survival. This year they will export record numbers of animals. That seems improbable given that a famine is raging in south Somalia, which has seen over a million animals die of hunger and thirst. But the grazing in other parts of Somalia, especially the north, has been excellent and demand for livestock from abroad has never been higher. After banning Somali sheep and goats for many years, for allegedly being diseased, Jeddah in Saudi Arabia has once again declared them welcome.For the first time since the collapse of Somalia as a unitary state in 1991, Saudi and Lebanese traders have ventured into the local livestock markets. Goats are mainly exported to Mecca for the annual haj pilgrimage. The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that $250m-worth of animals will leave the port of Berbera and its more ramshackle rival, Bossaso, in the seven weeks........
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Kenya 'will pursue Somali rebels'
Somalis Still Flood Yemen, Going From Worse to Bad
Air Strike Hits Empty Somalia Red Crescent Center
UN head Ban Ki-moon in Mogadishu
Somali militants turn to Twitter
UN's Ban Ki-moon Makes Surprise Visit to Mogadishu, Somalia
After Serving as Somalia’s Prime Minister, Back to Work in Buffalo
Al-Shabab Militant Detonates Mogadishu Car Bomb After Arrest
Somalia car blast 'kills police'
Somali Police Make Deadly Error as Blast Kills 4
Militants close Somali aid groups
Al-Shabab Raids Aid Agencies; Could Prolong Somalia's Deadly Famine
Somali Islamist rebels shut aid agencies
Somali Militants Ban 16 Aid Groups
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