Two hundred officers from the Somali Police Force (SPF) leftMogadishu,Somalia's capital, on Thursday (January 17) for neighbouringDjiboutiwhere they will participate in a two-month training course organized by the police component of the African Union Mission in Somalia. AU/UN IST
William and Kate, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, made a special visit to UNICEF's Emergency Supply Centre in Denmark, to help put the global spotlight back on the crisis in East Africa. UNICEF
Director General of UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Jacques Diouf said today that agricultural production has been reduced even in Somalia’s most productive areas and that underinvestment, degradation of resources and conflict “have exacerbated this serious problem.” FAO / FILE
The international community rallied today to the aid of drought and famine-affected populations in the Horn of Africa with an immediate, twin-track programme designed to avert an imminent humanitarian catastrophe and build long-term food security in the region. FAO / WFP / UNTV
Hundreds of exhausted Somalis cross into Djibouti at the Loyada border point every week to escape the horrors of war in their country. UN Refugee Agency’s Antonio Guterres visits Ali Addeh camp which hosts 13,000 Somali refugees. UNHCR
UN Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs B. Lynn Pascoe briefs the Security Council on Eritrea’s compliance with the provisions of the Council’s resolution relating to the border dispute between Djibouti and Eritrea and other issues including Somalia and the long standing border settlement between Eritrea and Ethiopia. UNTV
Though relatively small, the African Horn nation of Djibouti has a high rate of HIV/ AIDS. The country is now working to reverse that, through increased health care services and counseling. WORLD BANK
With the failure of four consecutive rainy seasons, the impact of drought, hunger and disease is not only felt in eastern Kenya and throughout the Horn of Africa. Across the region, some 24 million people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Kenya, Somalia and parts of Uganda are now in need of humanitarian aid, up from 20 [...]