HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-up 380 for 9-15 June 2007
15 Jun 2007 14:29:49 GMT Source: IRIN
NAIROBI, 15
June 2007 (IRIN) - CONTENTS: ETHIOPIA-SUDAN: Bid to defuse tensions between Nuer border communities
SOMALIA: Conference delay will affect reconciliation efforts - analyst
SUDAN: Call for urgent
deployment of hybrid Darfur force
SUDAN: Large tracts of Darfur inaccessible - Oxfam Also see: SUDAN-UGANDA: Equatoria - reluctant host for the LRAhttp://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72711 SUDAN: Boomtown Nimule under strain
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72653 ETHIOPIA-SUDAN: Bid to defuse tensions between Nuer
border communities Authorities in Akobo, Southern Sudan, and Tiergol in the Gambella region of Ethiopia are planning talks to defuse tensions between communities living in the border region, the UN
Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) in Ethiopia reported. The tension around Akobo is between two subgroups of the Nuer ethnic group - who predominantly live in Sudan but also
have significant numbers in Gambella - the Lou Nuer and the Jikany Nuer.
Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72684 SOMALIA: Conference delay will affect reconciliation efforts
- analyst The postponement - for the second time - of Somalia's national reconciliation conference that was due to start on 14 June is a setback for reconciliation efforts in the war-torn
country, a regional analyst said. "Somalia cannot afford to wait; besides, the clock is ticking on the Transitional Federal Government [TFG, whose five-year mandate expires in 2009]," the
analyst, who requested anonymity, said on 13 June.
Full report: http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72704 SUDAN: Call for urgent deployment of hybrid Darfur force The UN Security
Council should ensure that the Sudanese government's acceptance of a hybrid force consisting of UN and African Union (AU) troops for Darfur is matched by immediate action to protect civilians and
end abuses, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. In a departure from its earlier position, Sudan on 12 June accepted that such a force could be deployed in its troubled western region of Darfur. HRW, in a
statement ahead of a planned trip by Security Council members to Africa, including Sudan, from 14 June, called for greater pressure on the Sudanese government.
Full report:
http://www.irinnews.org/Report.aspx?ReportId=72699 SUDAN: Large tracts of Darfur inaccessible - Oxfam Increasing violence in the western Sudanese region of Darfur has cut aid workers'
access to affected civilians to its lowest level since the early days of conflict, the British charity Oxfam said. As a result, large parts of rural Darfur were now completely inaccessible for aid
agencies. Humanitarian workers and operations, it added, were increasingly being targeted. "Vehicles are being hijacked and robbed, staff assaulted and intimidated while carrying out their work,
and offices broken into and looted," Oxfam noted in a statement on 8 June.
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