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AfricaFocus Bulletin
Country-focused Bulletins
Apr 6, 2008 Somalia: "Most Neglected Crisis"
Forty humanitarian agencies appealed to the international community
late last month to pay attention to the crisis of some one million
displaced on ongoing fighting in Somalia. Refugees International
termed it currently "the most neglected crisis in the world," And
Donald Payne, chair of the House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on
Africa told the New York Times (http://tinyurl.com/yo8avl), "We're
Baghdad-izing Mogadishu and Somalia."
Nov 15, 2007 Somalia: Journalists and Civilians under Attack
The Ethiopian-backed Somali government has closed down three
independent radio stations, a media crackdown that coincides with
escalated fighting in Mogadishu and an estimated 173,000 internally
displaced people (IDPs) newly fleeing from Mogadishu. Human rights
and media rights groups in Somalia and around the world have
condemned the assault on journalists.
Aug 22, 2007 Somalia: Shell-Shocked
Based on dozens of eyewitness accounts gathered by Human Rights
Watch in a six-week research mission to Kenya and Somalia in April
and May 2007, plus subsequent interviews and research in June and
July, this [Human Rights Watch] report documents the illegal means
and methods of warfare used by all of the warring parties and the
resulting catastrophic toll on civilians in Mogadishu.
Jun 24, 2007 Somalia: Blind Alley, Mounting Casualties
Apr 9, 2007 Somalia: Escalation and Human Rights Abuses
Jan 16, 2007 Somalia: Creating Another Iraq?
Nov 30, 2006 Somalia: Getting It Wrong, Again
Jun 19, 2006 Somalia: Renewing Diplomacy
Recent Bulletins on Continent-Wide Issues
Jul 1, 2008 Africa: Debt, Unfinished Business
Jun 22, 2008 Africa: AfricaFocus Web Updates
Jun 17, 2008 Africa: Environmental Atlas
May 17, 2008 Africa: Telecoms Acceleration
May 11, 2008 Africa: Commodity Dependence
May 11, 2008 Africa: UN Conference on Trade and Development
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