Tag Archives: Displaced person

Waiting for helicopters?

Deepa Panchang “Where you stand,” goes an old Haitian proverb, “depends on where you sit.” This article, the second in a series, will examine aid workers’ stereotypes and prejudices about residents of displacement camps in post-earthquake Haiti, stemming from acute … read more »

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Somalia: 5 killed during food aid handout

Mogadishu – A Somali soldier killed five people and wounded three others in the famine-struck Somali capital on Thursday as starving women and children gathered for food aid handouts, witnesses said. “The soldier was arrested by the Somali police forces … read more »

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Somalia: Puntland Arrests Al Shabaab Suspected Elements

Bosaso — One day after the semi-autonomous region of Somalia’s Puntland apprehended more than one hundred people in a bid to prevent the repeated insecurity in those regions, officials from Puntland security forces on Wednesday proclaimed they had arrested a … read more »

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