Somalia is starving

[Somalina]

Starving in Somalia

 

 

EDITORIAL

Friday, August 12, 2011

 

The worst famine in 60 years is devastating the Horn of Africa. In Somalia, where the problem is most acute, 3.9 million people are at risk of starvation and as many as 12 million throughout the region. Some 29,000 Somali children are believed to have died in the last 90 days alone. The casualties will only grow without an urgent and generous international response.

 

The United Nations has made an emergency appeal for $2.4 billion but only received $1.1 billion in pledges. The United States has contributed $580 million so far and is the largest donor, as it should be. Other countries — especially in Africa and in the gulf region — also need to quickly help out. President Obama must urge them to do so.

 

East Africa is prone to famine, and drought has resulted in severe scarcities of food and water. The Obama administration deserves credit for acting in advance to ameliorate the effects. A warning system deployed by the United States Agency for International Development used satellite imagery and other techniques to predict the crisis last summer, according to American officials.

 

Since then, the agency has placed food and other supplies in Kenya, Djibouti and South Africa so they were available quickly when needed. It is also working on programs to help Somalia and other countries improve food production to avert future crises. Republicans in Congress must not be allowed to succeed in their mean-spirited and shortsighted efforts to slash food aid for next year.

 

Somalis are also victims of a country in chaos for 20 years. The Shabab, a ruthless extremist group linked to Al Qaeda, is battling a weak Western-backed government and until this week, blocked aid groups from delivering food to the starving. As The Times reported on Thursday, for the past decade, overall American strategy in Somalia has been troubled by a lack of focus and internal battles.

 

It is not in Washington’s interest for Somalia to become a safe haven for militants who aim to target the West. But it is troubling that the United States has become increasingly dependent on private contractors to train African troops fighting the Shabab. A decision by the Central Intelligence Agency to train Somali commandos and intelligence operatives, which many say are becoming a power base independent of the government, seems especially counterproductive.

 

There is no easy answer to Somali’s agonies. It has to start with saving millions now at risk of starvation, helping them improve their ability to grow their own food and finding ways to strengthen a shaky central government.

[ANWAR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6WCNEyK2mww&feature=BFa&list=FLm0kvNz0JuEc&index=2

[Somalina]

Soomaalida ku nool magaalada Perth ee Dalka Australia oo lacag u qaybiyay bukaannada ku jira Isbitaallada Banaadir iyo Madiina

[Somalina]

FIFA oo Hal Milyan doolarka Mareykanka ugu deeqday Abaaraha Soomaaliya

 

 

Abaar xun iyo macluul daran oo ka jirta dalkeena hooyo, xiriirka kubada cagta FIFa waxa ay ugu deeqeen hal milyan doolar oo lagu caawiyo dadka tabaaleysan sida FIFA ay ku xaqiijisay website-keeda.

 

Fifa waxa ay go'aansatay inay 1 Milyan doolar ay ku tabarucdo gaargaarka bani'aadanimo ee Somalia.

Waxaa lacagtan loo marsiin doonaa hay'ada laanqeyrta cas ee ICRC si ay uga caawiso barnamijyadeeda ay ka wado dalka ay baarta iyo dagaalada aafeeyeen.

 

Sida ay sheegtay FIFA lacagta waxaa loo isticmaali doonaa in lagu quudiyo 25 kun qoys oo abaar xun ay ku heyso Somaaliya.

 

Qiyaas ahaan, seddex meel lacagtan hal meelood waxaa loo isticmaali doonaa in lagu iibiyo cuno iyo qaabkii cunada loo geyn lahaa somalia, cunadaasoo quudineysa 25 kun qoys ama 150 kun oo qof mudoo bil ka badan, labada qeyb ee soo haray waxa ay caawin doontaa howlaha ay ICRC ka wado Somaaliya

Mashruucan Fifa ayaa waxa uu qeyb ka yahay barnaamijyadeeda gargaarka, iyadoo hore u soo caawisay dalalka Japan, Haiti, Pakistan, China PR, Chile iyo wadamadii ay Tsunami aafeysay 2004tii.

 

Dhinaca kale xulka qaranka Somaliya ayaa la kulmi doona bisha November xulka Ethiopia ciyaar ka tirsan u soo bixitaanka isreebreebka koobka aduunka. Ciyaartaas oo noqon doonta.

 

Saciid Maxamed Cali

saciidyare50@hotmail.com

Tifaftiraha laacib.net

[Somalina]

Save the Children and Tour de France stars team up for Somalia

 

 

Save the Children Norway is holding an online auction with several signed cycling jerseys from this year’s Tour de France in order to raise funds for the Horn of Africa, where the worst drought in 60 years has led to an acute lack of food and water. The signed jerseys come from HTC, Sky, Liquigas, and one especially signed by Edvald Boasson Hagen.

 

“Any children fleeing hunger and war in Somalia are arriving at the camp exhausted and clinging to life. It's having a huge impact on children. After the trauma of walking for weeks with very little food, they need to settle and get some routine back into their lives.” said Prasant Naik, head of Save the Children in Kenya.

 

http://www.cyclingnews.com/news/save-the-children-and-tour-de-france-stars-team-up-for-somalia

[Somalina]

We are the world for Somalia

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[Somalina]

Ramada Hotel & Suites Ajman management team leads campaign to support Somalia victims

 

 

 

 

Thursday, August 18, 2011

 

The management team of Ramada Hotel & Suites Ajman, a premier destination for business and leisure travellers, is spearheading a campaign to support the victims of drought and famine in Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia.

 

Monetary contributions will be donated by the property’s top management and hotel staff to the relief effort that is being carried out by several organizations in the UAE as per the directives of President His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan and His Highness Sheikh Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of UAE and Rule of Dubai.

 

Mr. Iftikhar Hamdani, Executive Assistant Manager, Ramada Hotel & Suites Ajman, said: “We would like to support our Somali brothers in this time of crisis. The hotel staff has decided to contribute an amount equivalent to their one day salary and the top management will contribute money equivalent to five days of their salary. We would like to encourage other organizations to contribute as much as possible especially during this holy month of Ramadan because any contribution will definitely help our brothers who are living each day without food and water.”

Over 165 million people in the Horn of Africa region are affected by the drought which hit Somalia, Djibouti and Ethiopia. Thousands of displaced people need food, accommodation and health care. During the past weeks, reports have indicated that more than 29,000 children died of hunger.

 

The relief operations are supported by Sheikh Mohammed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi and Deputy Supreme Commander of the UAE Armed Forces and followed up by Sheikh Hamdan Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Ruler’s Representative in the Western Region Chairman of the Red Crescent Authority (RCA).

[Somalina]

Somali-Americans Help Drought Victims

 

August 17, 2011 // VOANews // Africa

 

 

Minnesota is home to the largest Somali population in the United States and, as drought and famine take a devastating toll on their homeland, Somali immigrants are taking action to help victims back home.

 

As she watches televised images of starving Somali mothers and children, Fatima Abdi, 19, remembers her mother’s stories about the country’s 1992 famine. “When I was being born, my Mom had to go through all of that. One year after the war happened, my family was fleeing when my Mom was pregnant.”

 

Abdi’s family settled in Minnesota, where she’s now a college student. When her friend suggested a fundraiser to help the famine victims, they started brainstorming and recruiting other young people in the community.

 

“I called people, contacted people on Facebook, e-mails, talked to all of my friends, neighbors and let them know what was going on, give them ideas,” says Zahra Farah, Abdi’s friend. “There are so many ideas out there; a picnic, a carwash, knocking on doors, doing a walk. We put these ideas on the table, thinking what we can do for our people who are dying over there.”

 

The best idea, Abdi says, was a bake sale. “We baked traditional cookies. We sold drinks, doughnuts, cupcakes.”

 

And they made more money than they expected.

 

“Our goal was $600 and we went over it. We raised $627.”

 

Abdi and Farah donated the money to the American Refugee Committee (ARC), an international humanitarian organization based in Minneapolis.

 

“A lot of young people are very adamant on doing as many things as quick as possible,” says Shukri Abdinur, a program assistant with ARC. “Our whole community is actually coming together. We had the masjids that are involved in fundraising. The younger kids, the students are also involved in fundraising. We have carwashes. They are very motivated in doing it.”

 

And, she says, there’s been a gratifying response from outside the Somali-American community.

 

“Our non-Somali neighbors also definitely contributed in bringing their cars to carwashes. People call in everyday to also donate money and gifts and different types of funding.”

 

So far, the Minnesotans have raised more than $300,000, according to Said Sheik-Abdi, ARC’s program manager for Somalia. He says the organization began working with the Somali community in Minnesota and all over the United States two years ago. It just launched a relief campaign in cooperation with Somali-Americans to develop fund-raising efforts and provide a secure way to send humanitarian aid back home.

 

“We did food distribution. We did distribute non-food items,” says Sheik-Abdi. “And it’s not all about food. It’s about shelter, clear water, it’s about the health, it’s about providing security for those people who come to Mogadishu.”

 

Sheik-Abdi says the situation in Somalia today is worse than it was during the 1992 famine because the country has not had a functioning government for the last 20 years. Very few humanitarian organizations have been able to work inside Somalia. In addition, many of the areas hardest-hit by drought and famine are controlled by al-Shabab, a militant group the U.S. government considers a terrorist organization. That’s challenging, admits Sheik-Abdi, but he says ARC is doing everything possible to make sure the famine relief doesn’t fall into the wrong hands.

 

“We’re working inside Somalia where the African Union troops are. So we’re not working in the area of al-Shabab. We have our staff on the ground who are directly providing the service to the people who really need assistance. We have Somali-Americans who know their community, who have skills and have connections, helping us to make sure that the food reaches to the right people.”

 

That’s ARC’s immediate relief plan. Sheik-Abdi says there is also a long-term strategy for Somalia.

 

“In the month of October, the Somali people, those in the south-central area, expect to have rain. If these people who are internally displaced wanted to go back and do some farming, then we’ll help them do that,” he says. “We’re working with local agricultural partners to make sure that this doesn’t happen ever again, and if it happens, how to quickly respond. Because in the south-central area, there are two rivers, there’s enough water there. So how can we reserve water and use it when there is drought or there is no rain.”

 

The goals of the American Refugee Committee in Somalia are the same as in the other countries where it works. But Said Skeik-Abdi says the vital involvement of Somali-Americans gives this effort a special meaning.

[Alderman]

Thakoon’s Masai Scarf for Somalia

By Erin Donnelly 08/18/11 at 10:20 AM

 

Proceeds from Thakoon’s Masai Plaid Scarf are being donated to an African relief charity

 

Here’s some do-gooding that we just can’t keep under wraps.

 

After turning heads with his Masai-inspired prints for Fall 2011, Thakoon Panichgul is showing more love for Africa by designing this Limited-Edition Masai Plaid Scarf.

 

Modeled by Ruby Aldridge and featuring bold red, purple, and blue squares and fringed trim, the $250 lightweight wool scarf will see 100 percent of its proceeds donated to an international children's relief organization in the Horn of Africa, where drought and limited food supplies are causing a dire hunger crisis.

 

“This is foremost about the children [there],” Panichgul tells Vogue.com. “They can’t fend for themselves. That’s the most immediate concern for me.”

 

Available now, the scarf also makes a rock ’n’ roll cameo in a video starring a guitar-playing Aldridge. And here we thought giving back couldn’t be any more badass.

 

http://fashionetc.com/news/fashion/2781-thakoon-masai-scarf-somalia#disqus_thread

[Somalina]

UNICEF oo gargaarkii ugu horreeyay muddo shan sano ah maanta geysay degmada Garbahaarey ee Gobolka Gedo

 

Axad, Ogoosto 21, 2011 (HOL) – Diyaarad u kireysan hay’adda caruurta dunida ee UNICEF oo sidda gargaar kala duwan ayaa maanta muddo shan sano ah kaddib ka dagtay garoonka diyaaradaha ee degmada Garbahaarey ee gobolka Gedo.

 

Gargaarkan oo ay ku jireen raashin nafaqeysan ayaa wuxuu noqonaya kii ugu horreeyay oo ay hay’addaas geyso gobolka degmada Garbahaarey ee xarunta gobolka Gedo, iyadoo mas’uul u hadlay maamulka deegaanka gacanta ku haya oo gacansaar la leh dowladda Soomaaliya uu sheegay in diyaaradda laga dajiyay gargaarka ayna si nabad ah kaga duushay degmada.

 

Boqolaal dadweyne ah oo ku nool degmada Garbahaarey ayaa u daawasho tagay diyaaradda maadaama ay ahayd markii ugu horreysay muddo shan sano ah oo ay diyaaradi kasoo dagto, inkastoo UNICEF aysan weli ka haldin gargaarka ay geysay degmadaas.

 

Sannadkan bartamihiisii ayay ahayd markii diyaarad u kireysan UNICEF ay gargaar geyso degmada Baydhabo ee xarunta gobolka Bay, iyadoo diyaaraddaas ay ahayd tii ugu horreysay muddo saddex sano ah oo ku dagta degmadaas.

 

Degmada Garbahaarey ayaa waxaa gacanta ku haya ciidammo taabacsan DKMG ah iyo kuwa Ahlusuna oo isgarabsanaya, kuwaasoo billowgii sannadkan dagaal uga qabsaday Xarakada Al-shabaab oo ka talinaysay degmadaas labadii sano ee lasoo dhaafay.

 

Hay’adda UNICEF ayaa ka howlgasha degmooyinka ay dowladdu ka tiliso iyo kuwa ay Al-shababa ka taliso ee ku yaalla Koonfurta Soomaaliya, waxaana hay’addu ay horay u sheegtay inay gargaar geynayso deegaannada ugu daran ee ay abaaruhu ku dhufteen dalka Soomaaliya.

 

Maxamed Xaaji Xuseen, Hiiraan Online

maxuseen@hiiraan.com

Muqdisho, Soomaal

[Somalina]

Afshan Ahmed

 

Sunday, August 21, 2011

 

DUBAI// A national telethon organised by the Red Crescent Authority collected more than Dh64 million to help famine victims in the Horn of Africa.

The telethon, Suqyahum (quenching your thirst), which began on Wednesday, raised Dh64.8million in the three days of its nightly broadcast on Abu Dhabi Television. The campaign was initiated at the request of the President, Sheikh Khalifa.

 

More money was raised in similar events in Dubia and Sharjah, although those totals were not immediately available.

 

With its end on Friday, the organisers of Suqyahum said the amount collected was short of the Dh100 million they had hoped to raise.

 

"The telethon has ended but we will continue to broadcast the toll-free and SMS numbers on the channel for people who want to contribute to the cause," said Abdulraheem Albateeh, the director of Abu Dhabi Television, part of Abu Dhabi Media, publisher of The National.

 

Dr Saleh Al Taee, the secretary general adviser at the RCA, said 400 tonnes of food items had been donated by companies.

 

"This includes 180 tonnes of dates," he said.

 

Dr Al Taee added that milk, rice and sugar was also collected. The RCA aims to send 400,000 tonnes of relief to the Somali capital.

 

More than 29,000 children are estimated to have died of hunger in the past few weeks due to the drought. Another 300,000 children in the Horn of Africa are severely undernourished, according to the United Nations.

 

The RCA has opened seven clinics in its camps in the Somalian cities of Mogadishu and Hargeisa, and wants people and companies to contribute. It urgently needs medicines including antibiotics and anti-malaria medicines.

 

"This is an appeal to factories, pharmacies and private and government hospitals," said Dr Al Taee.

 

"We need medical items and if we have a sufficient amount we will send it by plane."

 

"The condition is that they should have a shelf life of one year and must be packaged well."

 

He said there are thousands of orphans that would also need financial support.

 

"We have the names of these orphans and have a programme for people who want to come forward and support them as well," he said.

 

Source: The National

[Somalina]

Egypt sends two military aircraft carrying humanitarian aid to Somalia

 

 

Thursday, August 25, 2011

 

The chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi ordered on Wednesday 24/8/2011 that two C130 military transport planes fly to Somalia to deliver humanitarian relief supplies include baby milk, infant formula, rice, sugar, flour and canned food donated by the Armed Forces and the Medical Syndicate in contribution from the Egyptian people to world efforts aimed at assisting the famine- and drought-stricken Somali people.

 

The stance comes within the framework of Egypt's leading role and its keenness to enhance the cooperation and friendship between peoples.

[Somalina]

Somalia: more life-saving feeding programmes launched

 

Thursday, August 25, 2011

 

In southern Somalia, the numbers of malnourished children and mothers have been rising rapidly.

 

The Somali Red Crescent Society, with the support of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), has just launched four new outpatient therapeutic feeding programmes in clinics in the conflict- and drought-affected regions of Gedo and Bakool.

"Around 20 per cent of Somalis are suffering from acute malnutrition, which is very worrying," said Dr Ahmed Mohamed Hassan, president of the Somali Red Crescent Society. "It is vital that services be expanded throughout the country in order to save as many children under five and lactating women as possible from malnutrition."

 

With the opening of the four new programmes, Somali Red Crescent feeding centres now cover the whole country, including all areas most affected by malnutrition. In Afgoye, in the Banadir region, six additional outpatient therapeutic programmes will soon open to enhance services already being provided there. In remote areas, 13 mobile health and nutrition teams are treating patients who cannot reach a clinic. A new feeding programme supplementing the regular therapeutic feeding will benefit some 49,000 malnourished children and 24,000 breast-feeding and pregnant women.

 

Admissions at Somali Red Crescent therapeutic feeding centres doubled between March and July. Additional staff were recruited to deal with the influx of patients.

 

The ICRC refurbished the buildings that house the clinics and will continue to provide support in the form of regular deliveries of medical equipment and food for malnourished children, pregnant and breast-feeding women along with training for staff. The ICRC also helped set up the mobile teams that treat patients in remote locations.

 

Somalia has been in the grip of a severe drought since October 2010. The effects on a population already weakened by two decades of armed conflict have been devastating. The ICRC is providing long-term support for 39 clinics run by the Somali Red Crescent. Most of the clinics offer outpatient therapeutic feeding. Furthermore, the ICRC is helping people produce their own food by providing seed, tools and training. Since June, when the humanitarian situation worsened dramatically, the organization has distributed food rations to 162,000 people throughout southern and central Somalia.

[oba hiloowlow]

Ronaldo Iyo Zidane Oo Ka Qayb Qaadanaya Gurmadka Abaaraha Soomaaliya

 

Ciyaaryahannada dalalka Brazil iyo France ee Luis Ronaldo iyo Zinedine Zidane ayaa lagu wadaa in ay ka qayb gallaan ciyaar loogu talla gallay in lacaggo gargaar ah loogu uruuriyo Soomaaliya oo ka dhaceysa dalka Germany.

 

Laacibitaan u kala dhashay wadamada France iyo Brazil Zidane iyo Ronaldo ayaa la filayaa in ay kaalin weyn ka qaataan oo ay ka qayb gallaan ciyaar xiiso badan taasi oo ka dhan ah faqrinimada islamarkaana lacaggo loogu uruurinayo abaarta dalalka geeska Afrika gaar ahaan Soomaaliya oo ay soo qaban qaabisay hay’adda Qaramada Midoobay u qaabisal hormarinta barnaamijyada.

 

Xidiggahaasi ayaa kala hoggaamin doono laba kooxood oo isugu jira xidigo waa weyn oo caalamka si aad ah looga yaqaanno, iyadoo ay ciyaartaasi marti gallin doonto koocda kubadda cagta ee Humber oo ka dhisan dalka Jarmalka taasi oo dhici doonta sida la xaqiijiyay 13-ka bisha December waxaana ciyaarta kor ka maamuli doonta hay’ad Qaramada Midoobay ka socota.

 

Ronaldo iyo Zidane ayaa ku sheegay bayaan ay si wadajir ah u soo saareen in ay ku faraxsan yihiin ka qeyb galka cayaarta deeqda loogu ururinayo Soomaaliya, waxayna rajo ka muujiyeen in dhaqaale badan uu kasoo xarooda cayaarta si wax loogu qabto dadka ay dhibaatadu ka soo gaartay abaarta ka jirta Geeska Afrika, gaar ahaan dalka Soomaaliya.

 

Labada ciyaaryahan oo horay ugu guuleystay abaal-marinta xiddigga ugu wanaagsan caalamka ayaa safiirro sharafeed u ah Qaramada Midoobay iyadoo ay si ay ka farriisteen cayaaraha.