The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
The West has "completely failed" the people of Somalia and must refocus efforts to give humanitarian workers safer access to desperate civilians 52 aid agencies said in a statement.
PM (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
We've got a fascinating report tonight from Mark Doyle in Somalia It's dangerous, war-torn, hasn't had a government for two decades and Mark's been investigating the difficulties of getting aid through to the people there.
BBC News (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
The world should be shocked at the systematic destruction of Mogadishu and its residents, says lobby group Human Rights Watch.
BBC News (Free subscription) | yesterday
The BBC's Mark Doyle has been granted rare access to the Somali capital, Mogdishu.
San Fransisco Chronicle (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
A U.S. Navy spokeswoman says the crew on a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry are, by all indications, in good health. Lt. Stephanie Murdock, a 5th Fleet spokeswoman in Bahrain, said Monday that American officials are in contact...
Seattle Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Armed pirates aboard fast-moving skiffs have increasingly turned the shipping lanes off Somalia into a lucrative hunting grounds: commandeering...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 18 hours ago
The Kenyan government has promised that it will work with the seven-member regional mediation body, the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD), to bring peace to war-torn Somalia. Speaking in eastern Kenya late on Saturday, Kenyan Vice President Kalonzo Musyoka said there's need to sort out the problem once and for all so as to secure the Somali coastal strip waters which have become dangerous....
Medical News Today (Free subscription) | yesterday
The recent escalation in fighting in one of Mogadishu's most populated residential areas has resulted in a surge of wounded civilians and has once again displaced thousands of people. The international medical humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is treating some of the wounded and is providing basic relief supplies to newly displaced people.
San Diego Union (Free subscription) | 1 hour ago
The crew on a hijacked Ukrainian cargo ship laden with tanks and heavy weaponry appear to be in good health, a U.S. Navy spokeswoman said Monday.
CNN (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
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Relief Web (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
Date: 06 Oct 2008 Source: Save the Children
People Daily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Over 50 aid agencies working in Somalia on Monday decried the rapidly deteriorating humanitarian crisis unfolding in Somalia and called on warring parties to cease-fire to allow unhindered relief supplies to the affected populations. In a joint statement issued in Nairobi, the 52 aid agencies said nearly half of Somalia's population, or 3.25 million people, are now in need of emergency aid, a 77 percent...
People Daily (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
Floods caused by Shabelle River forced hundreds of families out of their homes in the riverside villages around the southern Somali town of Janaale, a government official said Monday. "The river broke its banks after heavy rains in the past two days and nearly 705 families left their homes that had been swept away by the flood waters," Ibrahim Jabril Kulow, Mayor of Janaale, Lower Shabelle province,...
UN Dispatch (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
In this week's UN Plaza, Matthew Lee and I discuss a range of issues before the United Nations. In the clip below, we stray from Somali piracy to the dispute over the an oil rich region of Sudan to violence...
US News (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
Today's selection of timely reports
