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Somalia: A Famine Crisis One Year On - Lives Saved and Lessons Learned
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AllAfrica.com, 01/08/2012
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Dollo Ado — A year after the onset of the Somalia famine, Aden Yusef Kabey can laugh at the pain he endured. He has regained the body weight he lost over the past year. He can walk, eat and sleep.
"I've come back from the dead," says the 22-year-old. "Now I want to have a future and take full advantage of my life. I'm even handsome."
A year ago, Kabey lay in his father's shelter wrapped only in a flimsy blue cloth. The wind blew incessantly around the hut, which was constructed of just of sticks and cloth. Kabey had arrived in Ethiopia starving and desperate from Baidoa, Somalia. Almost immediately after his arrival in July of last year, he contracted measles and could no longer take in food or sleep.
When he became so weak that he was unable to move, his father found a man with a donkey cart and took him to a stabilization center. After five days, he could begin to use his le... |
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Panoramic Photos, Dollo Ado refugee camp
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http://bavaria360.de, 09/07/2012
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Photographer Juergen Schrader recently took these panoramic, 360 degree shots in Dollo Ado's Melkadida camp, which is home to approximately 40,000 Somali refugees: http://bavaria360.de/melkadida/melkadida.html
Patients line up to avail of German NGO Humedica's medical services in a camp health post: http://www.bavaria360.de/waiting/warten.html
Melkadida refugees celebrate winning a football tournament, organised by the Jesuit Refugee Services: http://bavaria360.de/jrs/winners.html
Refugees queue for a distribution: http://bavaria360.de/melkadida/verteilung.html
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Geldof: G8 leaders not as rich, but must still help Africa
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ITV, 15/05/2012
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After spending the last five days with Bob Geldof, I feel that I know his opinion about everything.
His forceful rhetoric - delivered at one hundred miles per an hour and sprinkled with a selection of profanities - is what first helped to make the famine in Ethiopia a global issue during the 1980s.
As we fly to Dollo Ado, a city-sized refugee camp close to the Ethiopia-Somalia border, it becomes clear that his passion has not diminished.
We talk at length. Well, he talks much more than I do. I see in him every ounce of the rockstar-turned-activist who told millions of television viewers to “Give us your f***ing money” during Live Aid. His straggly locks are a little greyer than they were then, but he is the same man.
We walk through the corridors of a conference centre in Addis Ababa, the Ethiopian capital, where leaders from Africa and beyond are meeting at the World Eco... |
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Somalia conflict keeps Ethiopia's Dolo Ado refugee camp busy – audio slideshow
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The Guardian, 12/04/2012
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Chinese actress seeks to build bridges with Somali refugees
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UNHCR, 11/04/2012
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JIJIGA, Ethiopia, April 10 (UNHCR) – Chinese actress Yao Chen has concluded her first visit to Africa as UNHCR's honorary patron for China by hailing the courage of Somali refugees and the generosity of their hosts in Ethiopia.
Yao Chen travelled to Ethiopia last week to meet with Somali refugees in the Dollo Ado and Jijiga border areas. "I felt this situation deserves particular attention. These refugees need help now, this is where the needs are the greatest," she said. "We hear about the drought, famine and suffering of people in the Horn of Africa from the news, but I wanted to see the situation with my own eyes."
Of the three camps she visited, Aw Barre and Sheder in Jijiga were opened in 2007-2008 for Somalis escaping insecurity back home. Buramino is the newest camp in Ethiopia, established just a few months ago with four other camps in the Dollo Ado region to accommodate ... |
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DHC, IKEA CEO visited Kobe & Bur Amino camps
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, 14/02/2012
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As part of a two-day mission to Ethiopia (9-10 Feb.), UNHCR Deputy High Commissioner Alexander T. Aleinikoff and the Chief Executive Officer of IKEA Foundation, Mr. Per Heggenes, visited Kobe and Bur Amino camps on 10 February 2012. The two officials appreciated the progress being made to address Kobe’s alarming mortality rate in such a short time.
Kobe, one of five refugee camps in the Dollo Ado area, experienced its worst mortality rate in July and August of last year due to a number of factors including high levels of malnutrition and a measles outbreak. A series of health and nutritional interventions by UNHCR and its health partners resulted in bringing crude mortality rate in the camp to well below the emergency threshold of 1 death per 10,000 per day.
Bur Amino, the newest refugee camp in Ethiopia, is home to about 13,000 refugees. Some of the facilities are still unde... |
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Sudanese Refugees Victims of Air Raid
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Voice of America, 25/01/2012
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At least one Sudanese refugee was injured and 14 others are missing following an air raid Monday in South Sudan. The U.N. refugee agency says the attack occurred in Upper Nile State where Sudanese refugees have sought refuge from violence back home.
Sudanese refugees have been crossing the border into South Sudan for many months. They’re fleeing fighting between Sudanese forces and the rebel SPLA-North Sector.
The U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR, said since August, about 78,000 people have crossed the border from Sudan’s Southern Kordofan and Blue Nile States. They’re receiving humanitarian assistance in South Sudan’s Upper Nile and Unity States.
Morning attack
UNHCR’s Vivian Tan said Monday’s air raid occurred about 10 kilometers inside South Sudan.
“The attacks happened in the morning local time in the border region called Elfoj in South Sudan’s Upper Nile Sta... |
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Polio Fears in Ethiopian Refugee Camp
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UNHCR, 24/01/2012
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This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson Melissa Fleming – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at the press briefing, on 24 January 2012, at the Palais des Nations in Geneva.
UNHCR is very concerned at reports this week of two suspected poliomyelitis cases among Somali refugees at Dollo Ado's Bur Amino camp in Ethiopia, and three suspected cases from the surrounding host community. Polio is a highly infectious viral disease, which mainly affects young children.
In the five refugee camps in Dollo Ado we are working closely with the Ethiopian Ministry of Health, local government partners, WHO, UNICEF, MSF and other health partners to coordinate the response. The immediate priority is to confirm the outbreak, and samples have been collected and sent to Addis Ababa for laboratory confirmation. Once the strain of virus is identified, the appropriate vaccine will ... |
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Horn of Africa Special/Speciale Corno d'Africa
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RSI/Swiss Radio & Television, 03/01/2012
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December 2011 Swiss Television documentary on the situation in Dollo Ado's refugee camps, with particular emphasis on the Transit Centre and newly opened fifth camp, Bur Amino.
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Etiopia: un sogno chiamato tenda
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RSI.ch, 22/12/2011
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Il viaggio, la fame, la miseria ... sperando in una nuova vita
Un essere umano su sette soffre la fame. Ma se ne parla quasi soltanto in occasione di eventi fuori dal comune, come la siccità di portata eccezionale che ha colpito il Corno d’Africa quest’anno. Aggravata da una situazione di guerra in Somalia, ha provocato una nuova ondata di profughi verso i campi di rifugiati dei paesi vicini. Ma l’allarme carestia ha riguardato in totale 13 milioni di persone in diversi paesi, di cui 4,5 milioni in Etiopia e 3,75 milioni in Kenya.
Abbiamo voluto andare a vedere sul posto quale è la situazione: cosa succede quando la pioggia ritorna, ma la fame rimane in agguato e il mondo distoglie lo sguardo. Andrea Vosti si è recato a Dollo Ado, un campo profughi in terra etiope. Lucia Mottini ha incontrato nel Kenya settentrionale, popolazioni pastorali che si confrontano a mani... |
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