A reminder to join Kathryn Mahoney, UNHCR public information officer
in Djibouti, tomorrow for a live Twitter Q&A session. Kathryn is
from New York and has been working in Djibouti assisting and protecting
refugees since May 2009. Send in your questions to her by email (donors@unhcr.og) in advance, or if
you use Twitters, send a tweet and add the '#askunhcr' hashtag. In North
America, the event will run:
2 pm EST
1 pm CST
12 noon MST
11
am PST
Read our post about Somali refugees in Djibouti.
If
you or your organization are interested in contributing time or
resources to the process of empowering the Somali refugees living in
Djibouti, please visit
www.givethemshelter.org
and join UNHCR’s campaign to send them 2,600 much needed tents.[
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Written by eldering at News
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By Shae Hadden
The
New York Times reported on March
5th that the U.S. is helping the Somali government prepare to
take
back Mogadishu. As part of a counterterrorism strategy, this
American support may make the country, steeped in anarchy for 20 years,
less hospitable for Al Quaeda and Al Shahab and its allies. Young Somali
men who have been training for the past few months in neighboring
Djibouti, Kenya, Ethiopia, Uganda and Sudan are now reinforcing the
6,000 to 10,000 troops, freshly armed and equipped, that will be led by
General Gelle. What this means for the Somali people waits to be seen,
but in all probability, it will involve more forced displacements and
refugees seeking asylum.[
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Written by eldering at Wisdom in Action
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Imagine what it would be like if your world were suddenly
thrown into chaos, your home burnt to the ground and you had to flee
with only the clothes on your back. You are alone and lost and have to
walk for days in search of a place of safety and to escape from the
chaos around you…
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