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HIGHLIGHTS
Crisis levels of food insecurity to persist in eastern Horn due to below-average rains
UN scales up response to food
UNICEF Burundi/Pawel Krzysiek
insecurity and malnutrition crisis in
Burundi
Horn of Africa
WFP reports critical food situation
Crisis levels of food insecurity to persist in eastern Horn
in rural Djibouti
Registration exercise ongoing in Dadaab refugee camp
Food security worsens in southern Somalia
Tanzania begins closure of Mtabila refugee camp hosting some 32,000 Burundians
Resource-based conflicts simmer in Tanzania’s Rufiji Valley
Durable solutions for IDPs in Uganda sought, as funding shortfalls hamper the reintegration of ex-combatants
Rwanda opens new camp for DRC refugees
In its 14 June Food Security Alert for East Africa, FEWS NET reports that despite heavy rains and flooding in the western sector of the region in April and May, most of the eastern parts in the Greater Horn experienced significant rainfall deficits that were below the average March to May rains. As a result, Crisis and Emergency levels of food insecurity (IPC Phase 3 and 4) are expected to persist through at least September in the affected areas, which include belg- and root crop-dependent areas of Ethiopia’s Southern Nations Nationalities and Peoples Region (SNNPR), the northeastern highlands and agropastoral areas of southern Somalia, pastoral parts of the greater Mandera Triangle and the agropastoral areas of the south-eastern and coastal lowlands of Kenya. The current and projected levels of food assistance in the Crisis and Emergency areas may not fully mitigate food and livelihoods protection deficits, necessitating additional humanitarian assistance to prevent deterioration in nutritional status and food access for affected households. Conversely, there is a high likelihood of continued rainfall and significant flooding in flood-prone areas in the Lake Victoria basin, and the river basins of the Juba and Shabelle in Somalia. Save for the eastern Africa coastal strip, south and northern Somalia, the rains are now well established in the northern sector of the region, especially over Ethiopia, Sudan, South Sudan, and parts of Somaliland. The overall northward progression of the rain belt has been faster than normal for the past two weeks, signaling an early onset of the June to September rainfall in the northern sector.
Burundi UN scales up response to food insecurity and malnutrition
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Unmet requirements Resources available USD
Thanks to a US$2 million rapid response grant from the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to UN agencies (FAO, UNICEF and WFP), some 150,000 people, including 8,000 malnourished children under age 5 impacted by food insecurity, will receive urgently needed assistance. FAO will provide emergency rehabilitation of livelihoods affected by climate disturbances; WFP’s efforts will focus on provision of assistance to refugees, returnees and vulnerable food-insecure populations; and UNICEF will support community-based management of acute malnutrition in four provinces (Rutana, Ruyigi, Cankuzo and Makamba) affected by acute food insecurity. While it is estimated that some 750,000 individuals are affected by the crisis, the total number of individuals targeted with CERF funding is 150,000 including 31,500 children under age 5, of whom 8,171 are acutely malnourished children. These projects are part of a larger response for which the UN estimates that $12.4 million is required.
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Burundi has the world’s second-highest stunting rates in children. Some 793,000 children – half the country’s children under age 5 – suffer from stunting due to chronic nutritional deficiencies.
According to UNICEF, nearly one million children under age 5 in Burundi are chronically malnourished. Burundi has the world’s second-highest stunting rates after Afghanistan, with half the country’s children under age 5 suffering from stunting due to chronic nutritional deficiencies. Since 2000, Burundi has been increasingly affected by exacerbated climatic shocks in many zones, especially in eastern provinces, which are characterized by fragile food and nutrition security. A recent IPC inter-agency analysis report (March 2012) classified the provinces of Rutana, Ruyigi, Makamba and Cankuzo as acutely food insecure (Phase III), with potential threat of aggravation. Irregular rainfall has dramatically reduced agricultural production and access to food for the poorest households. This situation is exacerbated by weakened purchasing power for many households due to soaring prices of staple foods. These provinces bordering Tanzania will be further affected by the anticipated return of more than 32,000 Burundian refugees in Tanzania by year-end, putting additional pressure on basic social services, food availability and costs.
Djibouti Rural food situation critical, worse than last year - WFP 77 per cent of rural households in Djibouti are food insecure or moderately food insecure due to recurrent shocks
According to preliminary results from WFP and partners’ rural Emergency Food Security Assessment (EFSA) of May 2012, the situation in Djibouti is critical and has deteriorated compared to last year: 77 per cent of surveyed households are food insecure or moderately food insecure compared to 69 per cent last year. Food consumption patterns have deteriorated, with 55 per cent of households having a poor diet made up of cereals, oil and sugar. Last year, this group represented 42 per cent of the sample. This year, the sample covered 861 households in 74 sites over the five rural districts of Djibouti. The EFSA is representative of the situation in rural areas. Interviewed households mentioned drought, high food prices and livestock losses as their principal shocks – the same shocks mentioned since 2009. According to WFP, food insecurity in Djibouti is chronic, and the accumulation of shocks over the years led to the current situation. “Had those households not been assisted, their situation would have been worse,” the agency noted. “In fact, 40 per cent of interviewed households mentioned that their main source of income and food is coming from food aid and gifts.” The complete report, with more elaborated data and analysis, will be available by end-June.
Ethiopia Rising food insecurity in belg-producing areas, some lowlands Belg-producing areas at or near lean season peak
With the national needs assessment currently ongoing in belg- (mid-February to May highland rains) and gu/ganna/sugum- (April to June lowland rains) receiving areas, there is continued concern about growing food insecurity in areas where the last harvest was poor and/or where the recent rains performed poorly. These areas, which include eastern SNNPR and parts of eastern Amhara, central Oromia and southern Tigray Regions, are either at the peak of their lean season, or soon will be. High inflation, especially high prices for staple foods, delays in dispatch and distribution of relief food, and low coverage of targeted supplementary feeding programmes are exacerbating the situation. In SNNPR, in particular, nutrition and food security is worsening: in Wolayita, Kembata Tembaro, Hadiya, Gurage, Silte, Segen Peoples and Sidama zones, vulnerable households are reportedly employing coping mechanisms such as skipping meals, eating smaller and less nutritious meals and borrowing money at high interest rates. Wild food consumption and increased school drop-outs have also been reported from some areas.
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Good rains in lowland areas have generally relieved water shortages excepting some pocket areas
In the gu/ganna (April to June) receiving areas of southern and south-eastern Ethiopia, the generally timely onset and good performance of the rains has replenished water and supported browse regeneration in pastoralist and agropastoralist lowlands. However, water and pasture shortages remain critical in areas that received erratic and insufficient rains. For example, preliminary indications from the national needs assessment indicate that rainfall has been below-normal over the past two months in parts of Gode zone (Somali Region). In agro-pastoralist areas, this has resulted in wilted pasture, with pastoralists travelling long distances to access water, and wells drying up. In riverine areas, there are few prospects for a cereal crop this season; farmers whose crops depend on irrigation are citing high prices for fuel and seed among the main obstacles to production. Outside the zonal capital, the price of 1 litre of fuel is 36 per cent higher than in town. Meanwhile in Shinile zone in northern Somali Region, a rapid assessment jointly conducted by the Government and humanitarian partners indicates that nearly two-thirds of the population in four woredas (Aysha, Erer, Hadagala and Shinile) has been affected by continuing drought conditions. Unlike other parts of Somali Region, the 2012 gu rains in Shinile have been below normal, and follow on from poor karan (July to September) rains last year.
SNNPR doubles food assistance request As humanitarians work to expand food and nutrition programmes, relief beneficiaries in SNNPR climb to 327,229
The number of relief food beneficiaries in Reference Beneficiaries SNNPR – one of the areas hardest hit by the late and below-normal belg rains and associated harvest – has more than 2012 HRD, SNNPR 97,830 doubled, the national Disaster Risk (January) Management and Food Security Sector (DRMFSS) confirmed on 15 June. A 1st SNNPR revision + 41,743 partial ration consisting of cereals and (May) pulses has been allocated for an additional 180,800 food-insecure people nd + 6,856 in Wolayita zone under the fourth round 2 SNNPR revision (early June) of relief assistance in response to a request received from the regional authorities. [Note: relief food is allocated Wolayita increase + 180,800 by round in Ethiopia, with each round (15 June) consisting of a one-month ration of 15 kg of cereal, 1.5 kg of pulses, 0.45 kg of oil, Total 327,229 and 4.5 kg of corn-soya blend (for children under age 5 and pregnant and breastfeeding women only) per person.] Prior to this, some 146,159 people in the region were eligible for relief food assistance under the fourth round, up from the 97,830 initially identified in the 2012 Humanitarian Requirements Document for Ethiopia (see table). In addition to advocating for expanded relief and food security programmes in the region, the humanitarian community is supporting the expansion of targeted supplementary feeding (TSF) to all priority 1 and 2 hotspot woredas to arrest increasing nutritional insecurity. Nutrition screening has been completed in all 27 priority 1 and 16 priority 2 woredas, and TSF has been rolled out in all Priority 1 woredas and is currently being rolled out in Priority 2 woredas. Countrywide, dispatch of the fourth round reached 28 per cent as of 19 June, while third round dispatched stood at 84 per cent. Initially scheduled for May, dispatch of the fourth round (now targeting approximately 3.4 million people) started in Somali Region at the beginning of June, with 38 per cent dispatched, and in areas covered by the NGO Consortium Joint Emergency Operation (JEOP) one week later, with 31 per cent dispatched. Dispatches for areas covered by DRMFSS began in the past week, with 14 per cent dispatched to date. www.unocha.org
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Refugees continue to arrive on multiple fronts UNHCR working to build and expand camps as refugees continue to arrive from Somalia, Sudan and Eritrea
The transit centre and five refugee camps in Dollo Ado (Somali Region) currently host 156,240 refugees from Somalia. New arrivals report that more refugees should be expected to arrive in Dollo Ado in the coming weeks, coming primarily from the Dinsoor area of Somalia as well as from Mogadishu. UNHCR and the Administration for Refugee and Returnee Affairs (ARRA) have agreed to extend the ceiling of Buramino camp to above 25,000 while finalizing site selection for a sixth camp. To the west, there are 36,576 registered Sudanese refugees in the Assosa area, Beneshangul Gumuz Region. Small numbers of refugees from Sudan’s Blue Nile State continue to arrive at both Tongo and Sherkole refugee camps. The relocation of refugees from Adimazin transit centre to the new camp in Bambasi, which was originally scheduled to begin on 22 May but delayed due to refugees’ reluctance to move, began on 11 June after several weeks of negotiations and a visit by refugee leaders to Bambasi camp on 5 June. To the north, the Government has asked UNHCR to support the registration and relocation of 5,000 Eritrean refugees who had initially settled with host communities along the border in Ethiopia’s Afar Region. The refugees would be relocated to Asaita and Berhale camps in Afar, but the camps require further expansion and scaling up of interventions. According to a recent nutrition survey of all households in the camp carried out by ARRA, malnutrition rates in Asaita are high, with global acute malnutrition of 28.5 per cent and crude and under-five mortality rates of 0.3 per cent and 0.7 per cent respectively. Ethiopia currently hosts 60,052 Eritrean refugees, with an average 800 to 1,000 new arrivals registered each month. The majority of Eritrean refugees are accommodated in camps in Tigray Region.
An average of 800 to 1,000 Eritreans seek refuge in Ethiopia each month
Kenya Dadaab: registration as insecurity persists Registration in Dadaab that was suspended in October 2011 will run from 4 June to 4 July Security in Dadaab area remains precarious with cases of IED attacks and banditry on the increase
Humanitarian operations in Dadaab continued amidst the heightened insecurity. The Department of Refugee Affairs and UNHCR are conducting a one-month registration exercise from 4 June to 4 July to register new arrivals identified since October 2011 (4,066 individuals), as well as those not yet identified. UNHCR and partners are doing health and protection screening at the registration centre. Overall the refugee population in Dadaab stood at 468,599 individuals as at 18 June. Levels of insecurity in and around the Dadaab refugee complex remain high, even as threats and actual attacks using improvised explosive devices (IEDs) continued. On 15 June, three people, including a female refugee leader, one national staff and one incentive worker were injured when an explosive device targeting the refugee leader’s vehicle exploded at Ifo market. Investigations into the incident are ongoing, with concerns being raised over the current trend by the attackers that seems to target civilians. Previous attacks were primarily targeted at security forces in the area. Banditry attacks around the camps as well as along the major roads leading to and from the camps is also of major concern.
Somalia Food security deteriorates in the south The food security situation in southern Somalia is expected to deteriorate to emergency levels this month, according to an alert issued by the Famine Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET) on 18 June. FEWS NET reports that the www.unocha.org United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) • Coordination Saves Lives
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The Hargeisa airport, Although unlikely to slip currently under back to famine, initial rehabilitation, is expected findings by FSNAU toindicate resumethe operations on main rainy 1 season November was late and poorly distributed in most parts of southern Somalia, hence the likelihood of a belowaverage Gu harvest.
April-June Gu rains started late and were poorly distributed over space and time. As a result, Somalia’s main crop harvest is likely to be below average and delayed by a month until August. FEWS NET also cites obstacles to humanitarian assistance, high debt burdens and limited livestock holdings as reasons the food security of poor agro-pastoral households will likely deteriorate to emergency levels. The number of Somalis in need remains at 2.5 million. Despite the improvements, Somalia is still in crisis, with 320,000 children (22 per cent) under five suffering from malnutrition. This figure is still far above the World Health Organization’s crisis threshold of 15 per cent. FEWS NET does not however predict a return to famine conditions as was the case in southern Somalia in 2011, but is calling on the humanitarian community in Somalia to scale up humanitarian assistance and activate contingency planning processes to address the unusually high needs in agro-pastoral areas during the current lean period, and to meet potential needs following the Gu harvest in August.
Malnutrition response in Gedo, Bay and Bakool Humanitarians are taking advantage of improved access in some parts of Gedo, Bay and Bakool regions to increase service delivery to thousands of people. In Gedo region, Nutrition Cluster partners reached 240,300 people in the first four months of the year, among them 74,000 children, through the Blanket Supplementary Feeding Programme. The programme, which started in September 2011 following the declaration of famine, has been instrumental in preventing under-nutrition in general and averting seasonal peaks of acute malnutrition. In addition, an average of 350 new admissions are being recorded each week in two wet-feeding centres in Luuq and Doloow districts where three hot meals are prepared every day. However, the programme has been experiencing challenges related to planning as newly displaced people continue to arrive from Bay and Bakool, fleeing insecurity and hunger.
Humanitarian response in parts of Gedo, Bay and Bakool has increased following improved access
Afgooye displacement update Early indications are that up to 120,000 internally displaced people (IDPs) still remain in the Afgooye corridor following the start of the of the joint African Union Mission in Somalia (AMISOM)/Somali National Army offensive against forces of Al Shabaab on 22 May. However, an exact figure is impossible to verify. The original estimate of 400,000 IDPs residing in the corridor came from an assessment in September 2010, therefore a correlation with any current estimate is challenging. Movement in and out continues, although at a slower pace. The majority of the displaced moved to the capital, Mogadishu, while others moved to Afgooye town and other parts of Lower Shabelle region. UNHCR announced on 19 June that an inter-agency population assessment on the ground will be conducted when population movements stabilise. For further information on the humanitarian situation in Somalia, see Issue 09 | 30 May-20 June 2012 of the Somalia Humanitarian Bulletin.
Some 120,000 people remain displaced in the Afgooye corridor
Logistics updates The final voyage under the Cluster’s free common shipping service will be end-June and not end-May as earlier reported
Shipping: The final voyage under the Logistics Cluster’s free common shipping service from Mombasa to Mogadishu is scheduled for end-June. As per bookings received, in terms of volume this will be the largest amount of relief cargo transported by a single voyage to-date. After the end of this service, a bilateral costrecovery service could be utilized, based on demand. Details of the new mechanism are to be established during follow-up meetings. Air Transport: Hargeisa airport remains closed since 21 May for upgrades and rehabilitation until 1 November. In this period, only smaller aircraft will be able to land on a gravel airfield next to Hargeisa airport. For UNHAS, passengers from Nairobi to Bossaso, Galkayo, and Garrowe will now land in Berbera and then www.unocha.org
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connect to Puntland as per the revised flight schedule. Interested organizations may contact the Logistics Cluster for the updated UNHAS schedule. UNHAS has in the meantime received a grant from the Common Humanitarian Fund (CHF), thus ensuring the continuation of the common humanitarian air transport service to Somalia. Ports: All the terminals at the port of Dar Es Salam and Bosaso, plus the bulk terminals at Djibouti port are congested. No congestion has been reported at other ports. Regular updates of the Physical Road Network Conditions Map during the Gu rainy season will continue throughout the rainy season. The map can be viewed at: http://www.logcluster.org/ops/som11a/somalia-physical-road-conditions
Tanzania Resource-based conflict in Rufiji Valley District Conflict between farmers and pastoralists in the region is not new but the violence has intensified in the past five years as the country has experienced prolonged drought
Scores of farmers in Rufiji Valley have clashed with pastoralists who have migrated to the area in search of water and pasture. AlertNet reports that some 2,630 pastoralists, accompanied by 272,800 cows, 51,160 goats and 20,120 sheep from Iringa and Morogoro have arrived in Rufiji District since April 2010. Some 4,500 hectares of arable farmland have reportedly been destroyed by the cattle-keepers. The nomadic movement is largely prompted by changing weather patterns that have caused sustained drought, which has affected many regions known for livestock rearing. Retaliatory attacks between the two groups have reportedly resulted in five deaths and displacements of affected communities. The groups have called on the Government to intervene.
Progressive closure of Mtabila refugee camp begins Mtabila refugee camp hosts some 38,000 Burundian refugees from 1993 onwards. Of these, only 2,521 individuals are deemed to be in need of continued international protection.
Pursuant to a Tripartite agreement signed in 2006 among the Governments of Tanzania and Burundi and UNHCR, Tanzanian authorities, with support from UNHCR, have begun facilitating the voluntary return of some 38,000 Burundian refugees hosted in Mtabila camp. In February 2012, the 16th Tripartite Commission decided that the definitive closure of Mtabila camp will take place by 31 December 2012. Applying a Plan of Action (PoA) developed by the 15th Tripartite Commission in May 2011, the joint Government of Tanzania/UNHCR interview panels established that 7,658 families (about 35,400 individuals, representing 90 per cent of the camp population) were found not in need of continued international protection, while 543 families, amounting to 2,521 individuals, were considered in continued need of international protection. All refugees found not to be in need of continued international protection were granted a six-week grace period to register for voluntary repatriation. A phased closure of camp zones is under way and will correspond with cessation of all assistance. The last food distribution by WFP for the last zone is expected on 9 July. UNHCR and the International Organization for Migration are ready to support the return of those willing to repatriate. Those who will have not availed themselves of voluntary repatriation and are still unwilling to return to their country of origin will have to regularise their stay in Tanzania, in line with the immigration laws. The Government of Tanzania intends to convert the camp for National Service activity.
Great Lakes Rwanda opens new camp to host Congolese influx Thousands of Congolese nationals continue to be displaced both within and out of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) due to ongoing intense fighting between Government forces and armed groups in North and South Kivu Provinces. www.unocha.org United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) • Coordination Saves Lives
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Fighting and displacements in eastern DRC have intensified, with new reports of Mai-Mai attacks against Kinyarwanda speakers being reported in Masisi territory
Displacement in DRC is further triggered by recent attacks by Mai-Mai militia who have reportedly shifted their target from the Rwandan pro-Hutu militia group, the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) to any Rwandaphone communities, especially in Masisi territory of eastern DRC. The international community has shown great concern about the recent developments in the Kivus and the deterioration of the security and humanitarian situation that has resulted in significant flows of displaced persons and refugees. An official delegation from Rwanda visited Kinshasa this month for talks over the unrest in eastern DRC. On 18 June, the UN Security Council condemned the attacks and urged the Rwanda and DRC to hold talks to resolve the security issues along their common border. Meanwhile, UNHCR reports that some 12,500 Congolese refugees have been received at Nkamira Transit Centre in Rwanda between late-April and 12 June. The transit centre, whose original capacity was some 2,600 people, is currently overcrowded with a recent rapid assessment conducted by UN agencies in coordination with the Government of Rwanda reporting precarious living conditions. The Government has opened Kigeme, a new camp in the south of the country, to decongest Nkamira, and UNHCR has begun transferring refugees from Nkamira to Kigeme camp.
UNHCR Rwanda has begun transferring refugees to the new Kigeme camp in the south of Rwanda to decongest Nkamira Transit Centre, currently hosting more than six times its original capacity
WFP announces a funding shortfall of $46 Million beginning August 2012 Four UN agencies in Rwanda receive US$3 million from CERF to provide life-saving support for Congolese refugees
In Uganda, steady arrivals of Congolese refugees continued to be received at the Nyakabande Transit Centre, where some 9,000 Congolese refugees have been registered so far. UNHCR is in the process of moving the refugees to refugee settlements to decongest the transit centre. WFP has meanwhile announced a combined funding shortfall of about US$46 million over the next six months for its operations in Rwanda, Uganda and DRC. A statement by WFP warns the shortfall could result in reduced food rations for 65,000 refugees in Rwanda, 97,000 in Uganda and 370,000 IDPs in eastern DRC. In Rwanda, the Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) has disbursed more than US$3 million to UNICEF, UNHCR, WHO and WFP. The CERF funds will be used in life-saving activities including registration and profiling new arrivals at Nkamira Transit Centre and for provision of emergency shelter, food and non-food items, and access to clean and adequate drinking water, sanitation and hygiene facilities. WHO will coordinate emergency health assistance to refugees, while UNICEF will undertake nutrition assessments and supplementation for children under age 5, and further ensure access to recreational and educational activities and psychosocial support.
Uganda Durable solutions for 30,000 remaining IDPs needed - IDMC A majority of the remaining 30,000 IDPs in northern Uganda lack financial resources and other means to guarantee sustainable return to their original homes
With international humanitarian agencies having scaled down their activities, development actors must focus efforts on ensuring that remaining internally displaced people (IDPs) and returnees in Uganda are helped to pursue durable solutions, says a new report from the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC). Since the 2006 signing of a cease-fire agreement between the Government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army, the overwhelming majority of the 1.8 million IDPs who lived in camps at the height of the crisis have returned to their areas of origin or resettled in new locations. According to IDMC, the majority of the 30,000 individuals still in camps lack financial resources to move home, are aged, disabled or unwell or have no land to return to. “Support for recovery and development in areas to which IDPs have returned has been insufficient,” the report states. “Returnees have faced continuing difficulties due to inadequate basic services and limited support to rebuild their livelihoods. The return process has been marred by land conflicts, sometimes leading to violence.” IDMC does note that www.unocha.org
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Uganda has forged policies to respond to internal displacement and foster durable solutions: the Government’s Peace, Recovery and Development Plan for Northern Uganda, for example, sets out a comprehensive approach to support reconstruction and IDP return. “In practice however, this, and other ambitious recovery and development programmes in northern Uganda, have suffered protracted delays,” the organization cautions. “Considerable resources have been invested but positive impacts to enable IDPs to find durable solutions remain limited.” The report can be found at http://www.internal-displacement.org/ Lack of sufficient funding has stalled the reintegration of some 26,288 ex-combatants in northern Uganda
Meanwhile, the Government programme to reintegrate more than 26,000 former armed rebels has stalled due to lack of funding. According to an 18 June IRIN report, the ex-combatants, mainly from the LRA, are yet to be fully integrated into their communities, with the majority resorting to crime for survival. The situation is worsened by the recent expiry of the Uganda Amnesty Act, which since 2000 had granted blanket amnesty to combatants in Uganda, who will henceforth be subject to individual judicial hearings for determination of their guilt or innocence.
Horn of Africa Crisis Funding Update All humanitarian partners, including donors and recipient agencies, are encouraged to inform FTS of cash and in-kind contributions by sending an e-mail to fts@un.org
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