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US pledges $5 million for drought-hit Somalis
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Addis Ababa (AFP) July 11, 2011

The United States on Monday pledged $5 million (3.5 million euros) to assist thousands of Somalis affected by a harsh drought that has hit the Horn of Africa region.

"We are working in a robust fashion ... to provide assistance once people become refugees and also studying very carefully what might be done in order to provide assistance to people inside Somalia," Reuben Brigety, the State Department's secretary for refugees told reporters in Addis Ababa.

UN refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres last week appealed for more international help for Somalis devastated by war and drought, terming their plight a humanitarian crisis.

Thousands of Somalis have fled their country in recent months to neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia to seek help.

USAID's deputy administrator Donald Steinberg ruled out working with Somalia's Shebab rebels who last week appealed for help and said they would allow aid through to regions from where they banned foreign relief groups in 2009.

"We cannot provide anything that is interpreted as material support for a group that we consider to be a terrorist organization," Steinberg said.

Steinberg and Brigety spoke to reporters after visiting Ethiopia's Dolo Ado region, where more than 100,000 Somalis are settled.

The US government has since October contributed $368 million in emergency relief for the Horn of Africa, facing one of its worst droughts in decades.




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2.5M euros for DR. Congo rape victims
Kinshasa (AFP) July 11, 2011 - The European Union will provide 2.5 million euros ($3.5 million) to help care for rape victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo under an agreement signed Monday.

The cash will go towards "appropriate medical care" for victims of sexual attacks in the east of the country, the EU said in a statement -- an area where almost 250 women say they were raped by deserting soldiers last month.

Medical centres and hospitals in the Nord-Kivu et Sud-Kivu provinces will receive funding as part of the project.

The European Commission's Humanitarian Aid and Civil Protection (ECHO) unit already leads a support programme for rape victims, and last year the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) agreed a $42 million package to help those affected.

Armed groups, and in some cases soldiers, are regularly accused of carrying out attacks.

Colonel Kifaru, a former member of a Mai Mai tribal militia, is suspected along with 200 soldiers of mass rape in the villages of Nyakiele, Kanguli and Abala after deserting from a military base on June 9.

In August last year at least 387 civilians, including 300 women, were raped by Rwandan Hutu rebels and Mai Mai militia in 13 villages of Nord-Kivu, according to UN figures.





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UNHCR chief urges more help for drought-hit Somalis
Addis Ababa (AFP) July 8, 2011
UN refugee agency chief Antonio Guterres on Friday urged more international help for thousands of Somalis devastated by a harsh drought, calling their plight the worst humanitarian tragedy. Thousands of Somalis have fled into neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia in recent weeks and many have died of starvation while fleeing due to one of the region's worst drought in decades. "My main objecti ... read more


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