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UN
REFUGEE AGENCY PROVIDES AID FOR 5,000 DISPLACED SOMALIS:
22/8/2007 (MaximsNews.com)
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- 22 August 2007 – The
United Nations refugee agency has provided basic supplies to some 5,000
displaced people living in makeshift shelters in the southern Somalia town of
Baidoa, a market area and seat of the country’s interim parliament, while
cautioning that more assistance is necessary.
The
distribution of plastic sheeting for shelter, blankets, jerry cans and kitchen
utensils started last Sunday and was completed on Tuesday morning, the UN High
Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) said in a news release.
The
5,000 people from 1,000 families who received supplies during this distribution
round are among the estimated 4,000 displaced families living in settlements in
and around Baidoa.
Some of
the internally displaced people (IDP) targeted during the distribution arrived
recently in Baidoa from Mogadishu and other areas of south and central Somalia
which have been affected by fighting, UNHCR said.
“We
completed the distribution successfully this morning, but were still not able to
meet all the needs. Some families are still without shelter material, while many
of the IDP sites lack health services, water and sanitation,” said a UNHCR
official in Baidoa.
“People
depend on rainfall for farming activities. But this time the rains were not
good, which means that people cannot work on their farms. They depend wholly on
their farms and now they have no alternative,” the official explained.
Meanwhile,
UNHCR said its operations in the town of Galkayo remain severely curtailed after
threats forced the evacuation in early August of staff working for international
non-governmental organizations (NGOs), including partners of the refugee agency.
The
agency also said it is finalizing plans for the repatriation in October of a
last group of some 2,000 Somali refugees living in camps in Djibouti.
Earlier
this week, the UN Security Council voted unanimously to extend the African
Union-led mission in Somalia by six months while approving continued contingency
planning for a possible United Nations peacekeeping operation in the country,
which has not had a functioning government since 1991.
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