Helping Somalia

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On 17th August the Foreign Ministers of the 57 OIC countries will be meeting in Istanbul to coordinate their help efforts for Somalia.
Turkey called an emergency OIC meeting in İstanbul to discuss ways in a bid to end the tragedy in Somalia
Muslim states to discuss Somalia aid: OIC
OIC holds emergency meeting on Somalia famine on 17 Aug./TRT-English


PM Erdogan will visit Somalia within the next days to look at the situation on ground.
Erdoğan, Davutoğlu to visit Somalia with their families


Third cargo plane of Turkish aid takes off for Somalia
Third cargo plane of Turkish aid takes off for Somalia - Hurriyet Daily News
 
1 day after OIC meeting about Somalia in Istanbul the PM will visit Somalia.

Turkish PM heading to Somalia to draw attention to famine

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdoğan will travel to Somalia next week to draw international attention to the plight of the famine-hit country, an aide said Friday.

“We will be going to Mogadishu in the evening on Aug. 18 and spend the next day there,” the aide said, adding that details of the visit were yet to be determined.
Turkish PM heading to Somalia to draw attention to famine - Hurriyet Daily News
 
If Turkey can help good luck ekrem, Somalia is the most difficult place on earth to operate in, much harder than Afghanistan and makes Iraq look like a picnic.
 
Now they need disease relief...
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UN says cholera epidemic in Somalia
Fri Aug 12,`11 – World Health Organization officials said Friday that famine-hit Somalia faces a cholera epidemic as dirty water and poor sanitation are leading to an increase in outbreaks of the disease.
Officials say cases of acute watery diarrhea — an important indicator of the risk of cholera — are now at 4,272 in Somalia — an 11 percent rise on last week's WHO reported figure of 3,839. WHO public health adviser Dr. Michel Yao told reporters in Geneva on Friday that the number of cholera cases has also risen sharply this year, with officials confirming 18 cases in the 30 lab samples taken in recent days from people living in the capital, Mogadishu.

Yao said the 60 percent infection rate confirms there is a "high risk" of the disease spreading quickly — "so we can say we have an epidemic." The random samples, which were tested in a lab in the capital, were drawn from among 4,272 samples from people who have suffered the diarrhea, he said. So far, he said, there have been 181 acute watery diarrhea-related deaths.

WHO spokeswoman Fadela Chaib said last week that a few cases of cholera have been confirmed in Somalia and the diarrhea is also on the rise. She said of the 3,839 reported cases, 77 percent afflicted children younger than 5-years old in Mogadishu. The World Health Organization has said it is very concerned about disease outbreaks in drought-hit East Africa, due to a lack of clean water for drinking and bathing, overcrowding in camps and the low tolerance to disease of starving young children.

The United States estimates drought and famine in Somalia have killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5. Millions face the risk of starvation amid Somalia's worst drought in 60 years. UNICEF spokeswoman Marixie Mercado said Friday that tens of thousands of children have died and countless more are particularly at risk of cholera and other diseases because of drought and violence in East Africa.

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Somalia: Fourth Camp for Refugees Opened in Ethiopia, Arrivals to Dadaab Increasing
5 August 2011 - UNHCR's Somalia Representative, Bruno Geddo, has just returned from Dollow in Somalia, the major transit point on a corridor used by uprooted Somalis to reach Ethiopia's Dollo Ado refugee camp just across the border.
The normal population of Dollow town is approximately 30,000. While there, Geddo witnessed a constant flow of uprooted Somalis through the town which he estimated at more than 2,000 people at any given time. They are coming from the towns of Garbaharey, Bardere and El Wak (Gedo Region), as well as towns in Bay and Bakool regions. In general, those south of Baidoa (Bay Region) are heading to Mogadishu in search of assistance, while those closer to Luq (Gedo Region) are heading for Dollow. Geddo spoke with a number of the displaced in Dollow to get a clearer picture of the reasons for displacement and an explanation as to why there had been a noticeable drop in numbers arriving in Dollo Ado camp in recent weeks - from some 2,000 daily a month ago to about 250 now.

He was told that initially people had been advised by Al-Shabaab that humanitarian assistance was coming, so they stayed where they were in anticipation of its arrival. But by the end of July, the situation had not changed significantly and people decided to seek assistance elsewhere. Some also started moving toward Baidoa and Mogadishu - instead of toward Ethiopia - as news filtered through of large-scale assistance being provided those two cities. News also filtered back to Somalia from people who had reached Ethiopia's Dollo Ado camps that the assistance given there was not what they expected - primarily the types of foodstuffs and the delays encountered.

The internally displaced people (IDPs) also reported that roadblocks had been erected in a bid to prevent large groups of people leaving together. Geddo said many people have either just set out or are still en route as the decision to move is a difficult one. Despite the drought, some opt to stay behind to keep working on their farms and crops, while others are awaiting remittances from relatives abroad before undertaking the journey.

As a result of the influx into Dollow over the past three months, a spontaneous site for IDPs has sprung up on the banks of the Juba River, in an area known as Kasale. IDPs there live in makeshift shelters and survive on donations of food from locals. As the current influx has been coming for over three months now, the ability of the locals to support the IDPs is severely stretched. At Kasale, Geddo met a 60-year-old woman who had trekked for 45 days from Bardere with her daughter and three grandchildren in search of food. She said that while there is food available in Bardere, the prices are so high that they are beyond the reach of most people. She also feared fighting in the town.

More allAfrica.com: Somalia: Fourth Camp for Refugees Opened in Ethiopia, Arrivals to Dadaab Increasing
 
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Mothers go to blows to get food relief for their children...
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Mothers exchange blows as Kenya drought deepens
13 Aug.`11 - 'She ordered me to move after she cut the line and I have been here since dawn. I could not let her'
The two mothers exchanged blows as they held their wailing infants in their arms after one of the women tried to cut in the long line for children to receive treatment for severe malnutrition. The women faced off a second time after passing their children to onlookers amid the melee: The younger woman head-butted the other to the ground before hospital personnel intervened and separated them. "She ordered me to move after she cut the line and I have been here since dawn. I could not let her," said one of the women who only identified herself as Chipure, a mother of eight children, who got a swollen lip from being head-butted.

The incident at the Kakuma Mission Hospital illustrates the growing desperation in northern Kenya, as a famine in neighboring Somalia that has killed tens of thousands draws an international aid effort. At least five people are reported to have died here in Kenya's Turkana region, one of the most remote and marginalized areas in the country, where people depend on herds of animals that are dying from the drought.

According to the U.N. children's agency, a little more than half of the population here consumes just one meal a day. The hunger crisis is so bad that families here are even sharing food supplements given to infants. The temperature here can hit 104 degrees Fahrenheit (40 degrees Celsius), and 20 liters of water costs a third of John Ekidor's daily wage. "The last time I took a bath was a week ago," said Ekidor, 33, who supports his family of eight by panning for gold. "Eating one meal a day is now a matter of chance."

At the Makutano Health Center, dozens of women line up to get their children a special peanut butter paste that is high in protein and carbohydrates. Nyanyuduk Logiel, a 28-year-old mother of five, has brought her 3-year-old daughter Lokol back for follow-up care. The toddler is only about a third the weight she should be and can barely stand. She weighs only 12.35 pounds (5.6 kilograms). In the nearly two weeks since little Lokol has been on the treatment, she's gained almost a quarter of a pound (100 grams) but has a long way to go before she reaches the weight she should be — 33 pounds (15 kilograms), says Jimmy Loree, the nurse in charge of the clinic.

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U.N. fears rise in Somalia famine refugees
10 Aug.`11 — The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a U.N. aid official said Tuesday.
The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in Somalia in recent months, and over 11 million people across East Africa need food aid because of a long-running drought. The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's representative in Kenya warned that the situation could become "simply unbearable" in the coming weeks if Somalis continue to abandon their homes in south and central parts of the country in search of food.

In the past two months some 220,000 people have fled toward the Somali capital of Mogadishu and across the borders to Kenya and Ethiopia, where refugee camps are straining under the pressure of new arrivals. Almost 1 million people are displaced elsewhere in Somalia, the U.N. estimates. "The possibility is basically having everybody who lives in that (famine) area moving out, which would be a disaster," said Luca Alinovi, adding that transportation costs have doubled in recent months — evidence that there is growing pressure to leave.

Alinovi said FAO was working to prevent Somalis from abandoning their drought-hit farms by paying them cash for small jobs, thus allowing people to remain. Once people leave their farms, they become dependent on aid for a very long time, he said. Cash payments have been controversial in Somalia, because of the possibility that money might end up in the hands of militant groups like al-Shabab, who are fighting the weak central government in Mogadishu. "It is a risk that can be handled," Alinovi said of the cash payments, warning that the alternative could be a sharp rise in the number fleeing. "If this becomes a massive number, like hundreds of thousands of people moving out, then this simple problem will be very difficult to bear."

The U.N.'s humanitarian coordination office said the famine is expected to spread to all regions of south Somalia in the next four to six weeks unless further aid can be delivered to those in need. The global body says it has received $1.1 billion, or about 46 percent of the $2.4 billion requested from donor countries. The U.N.'s deputy emergency relief coordinator Catherine Bragg appealed to the international community for $1.3 billion to urgently save lives. "Every day counts," she told the U.N. Security Council. "Hundreds of thousands face imminent starvation and death. We can act to prevent further loss of life and ensure the survival of those who are on the brink of death."

According to the U.N.'s Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit, "the current situation represents the most severe humanitarian crisis in the world today and Africa's worst food security crisis since Somalia's 1991-92 famine," Bragg said. "We have not yet seen the peak of the crisis as further deterioration is considered likely given the very high levels of both severe acute malnutrition and under-5 mortality in combination with an expectation of a continued increase in local cereal prices, and a below-average rainy season harvest," she said.

More U.N. fears rise in Somalia famine refugees - USATODAY.com
 
On 17th August the Foreign Ministers of the 57 OIC countries will be meeting in Istanbul to coordinate their help efforts for Somalia.
Turkey called an emergency OIC meeting in İstanbul to discuss ways in a bid to end the tragedy in Somalia
Muslim states to discuss Somalia aid: OIC
OIC holds emergency meeting on Somalia famine on 17 Aug./TRT-English


PM Erdogan will visit Somalia within the next days to look at the situation on ground.
Erdoğan, Davutoğlu to visit Somalia with their familieswho gives a DAMN!!!:piss2::blsmile:


Third cargo plane of Turkish aid takes off for Somalia
Third cargo plane of Turkish aid takes off for Somalia - Hurriyet Daily News
WHO GIVES A DAMN!!:piss2::blsmile:
 
The last time we tryed to help these people they thanked us by dragging the bodies of our dead Army Rangers through the streets of that screwed up place. Let the ungratful SOBs strave, they are not woth saving.
 
Losses not big enough to stop aid...
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UN: Aid Will Still Go to Somalia despite Fraud
Tuesday, August 16, 2011 — The U.N. World Food Program insisted Tuesday it won't reduce emergency aid shipments to Somalia despite allegations of fraud, saying that though such complaints are frequent it doesn't believe there have been big losses.
WFP said it is bringing 5,000 tons a month of food into the Somali capital of Mogadishu to help the famine-hit nation. Tens of thousands of people each week are fleeing famine in Somalia to neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya. An investigation on the ground by The Associated Press found that sacks of grain, peanut butter snacks and other food staples meant for starving Somalis are being stolen and sold in Somali markets, raising concerns that the unscrupulous are stealing from international famine relief efforts. One official in Mogadishu estimated to the AP that up to half of the recent food shipments may have been stolen.

WFP officials disputed that figure Tuesday. Lauren Landis, the new director of WFP's Geneva office, said it seems "implausible" that a large amount of food is being diverted because it would pose a huge logistical challenge. "Large losses of food is abnormal, because we know how to do this," Landis told AP, without elaborating further. She said theft worries are common with WFP operations in Somalia and around the world.

However, WFP officials rely on third-party monitors on the ground to make sure that aid agencies and the Somali government fight corruption and don't allow diverted aid to help fuel Somalia's 20-year civil war. AP journalists went into the markets to see for themselves. Families at a large, government-run camp where aid groups distribute food told the AP they were often forced to hand back the aid after journalists had taken photos of them with it. In Mogadishu markets, vast piles of food are for sale with stamps on them from the WFP, the U.S. government USAID agency, the Japanese government and the Kuwaiti government. The AP found eight sites where thousands of sacks of food aid were being sold in bulk. Other food aid was also for sale in numerous smaller stores.

Meanwhile, the United Nations said the mortality rate among young children at a camp for Somali refugees in Ethiopia has reached alarming levels, with an average of 10 children under five dying every day since the Kobe camp in southeast Ethiopia opened in June. The camp holds 25,000 refugees. A suspected measles outbreak combined with acute malnutrition is thought to be the cause of deaths, said Adrian Edwards, a spokesman for the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees.

UN: Aid Will Still Go to Somalia despite Fraud | CNSnews.com
 
U.N. deputy emergency relief coordinator Catherine Bragg appealed Tuesday to the international community for $1.3 billion needed urgently to save lives.
"Every day counts," she told

UN: We have not yet seen the peak of food crisis in Africa - Hurriyet Daily News

how many billions has been spent? how many tons of grain has been hijacked off the piers by warlords, militias etc.....erdgoan is welcome to take his turn.


maybe he can arrange a Nato invasion of, oops wait, overflights of somalia to keep warlords away and install a new gov.?

and sudan?
 
You gonna collect money for Darfur, Mahometan?

We have recognized South Sudan the same day USA did.
Norway and Turkey will organize a conference on South Sudan in Turkey in September. And we'll take part in USAID hosted conference in Washington.
Turkey to host Sudan summit - Hurriyet Daily News

If there is going to be money collected, I'm sure we'll contribute.
For now our interests are in the crisis in Somalia.
 
Good for Turkey.

I continue to be impressed by this nation's willingness to work with the rest of the world on th eproblems facing us all.

Seems to me that Turkey is the natural mediator between the Islamic world and the nonIslamic world.
 
You gonna collect money for Darfur, Mahometan?

We have recognized South Sudan the same day USA did.
Norway and Turkey will organize a conference on South Sudan in Turkey in September. And we'll take part in USAID hosted conference in Washington.
Turkey to host Sudan summit - Hurriyet Daily News

If there is going to be money collected, I'm sure we'll contribute.
For now our interests are in the crisis in Somalia.

Turkey is an ally of Khartoum and of the president of Sudan who is indicted by the ICC for war crimes in Darfur.

Turks were complicit in the Armenian Genocide and Turks are complicit in the genocide in Darfur.

The religion of genocide.

The genocide in Darfur has claimed 400,000 lives and displaced over 2,500,000 people. More than one hundred people continue to die each day; five thousand die every month.

Since February 2003, the Sudanese government in Khartoum and the government-sponsored Janjaweed militia have used rape, displacement, organized starvation, threats against aid workers and mass murder. Violence, disease, and displacement continue to kill thousands of innocent Darfurians every month.

Genocide in Darfur, Sudan | Darfur Scorecard

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-ojg9UjMk0]The Genocide In Darfur - YouTube[/ame]
 
Turks are complicit in the genocide in Darfur.

Turkey's ODA now reaches close to USD 1.5 billion annually
Technical Cooperation Department of the United Nations

Our development agency (TIKA) has an office in Khartoum and we have conducted several humanitarian projects in Sudan, mainly delivering mobile hospitals.
We don't do genocide on the Sudanians as you claim.


Turkey to build large hospital in South Darfur

Officials here say the hospital will cost $30 million and is expected to be completed within a year.
Stressing that Turkey felt obligated to extend assistance to the Sudanese people because of deep cultural and historical ties, the Turkish minister said development aid to Sudan would continue with further projects along the way.
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a Darfur donor conference last March under the umbrella of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC), which helped secure $850 million in one day, though the target was set for $2 billion. Turkey was the first country to pledge $60-$75 million for water, education and agriculture projects until 2015.

Turkey to build large hospital in South Darfur
 
Turkey is an ally of Khartoum

Marc, When will Israel chair or co-chair a donors conference on Darfur?

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The faster we can send the somali "refugees" in the US back home and quit abusing our social services here, the happier I'd be. It's one of the real big things I HATE about the Twin Cities. A culture completely incompatible with polite western society.
 

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