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Critical funding shortfall threatens vital UN food aid for 53,000 hungry Djiboutians
Topix - Monday, April 02, 2007
p class="lede_quote">"It's vital that we get donations now" A critical shortage of funds will force the United Nations World Food Programme to cut off vital food aid rations for 53,000 people in Djibouti beginning next month in a country where malnutrition rates among ... via Moldova.org... more
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Money Shortage Threatens Food Aid
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
critical shortage of funds will force the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) to cut off vital food aid rations for 53,000 people in Djibouti beginning next month in a country where malnutrition rates among children under five are already well over the international emergency threshold, the agency warned... more
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Urgent Funding Required to Feed Thousands - WFP
allAfrica.com - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
n estimated 53,000 people in Djibouti could go without food rations unless the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) secures funding to continue providing aid, the agency warned on ... more
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Critical funding shortfall threatens vital UN food aid for 53,000 hungry Djiboutians
Topix - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
critical shortage of funds will force the United Nations World Food Programme to cut off vital food aid rations for 53,000 people in Djibouti beginning next month in a country where malnutrition rates among ... Comment ... more
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DJIBOUTI: World Bank to fund electricity project
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Monday, November 07, 2005 (IRIN) - The World Bank has approved a US $7 million project in Djibouti that includes initiatives to expand electricity distribution, introduce a pilot wind farm and provide technical assistance to the Horn of African nation, the organisation announced in a ... more
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DJIBOUTI: World Bank to fund electricity project
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Monday, November 07, 2005 (IRIN) - The World Bank has approved a US $7 million project in Djibouti that includes initiatives to expand electricity distribution, introduce a pilot wind farm and provide technical assistance to the Horn of African nation, the organisation announced in a ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Food insecurity worsens as dry spell persists
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Thursday, December 29, 2005 (IRIN) - The delayed onset of the October-February rainy season in Djibouti has led to worsening food insecurity in pastoral areas due to lack of pasture and water in the coastal dry period grazing areas, a famine alert agency has ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Interior minister appeals for humanitarian aid
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Tuesday, January 17, 2006 (IRIN) - Djibouti's home affairs minister, Yacin Elmi Bouh, has urged his compatriots and aid agencies to help people suffering from drought-related food shortages in the Horn of Africa country, the official news agency ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Pastoralists hardest hit by continuing drought
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
JIBOUTIVILLE Tuesday, February 07, 2006 (IRIN) - Up to 150,000 people, mainly pastoralists, are threatened by a continuing drought that has degraded pastures and dried up watering points across Djibouti, a government official ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Dire humanitarian situation as drought intensifies
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
JIBOUTIVILLE Wednesday, February 08, 2006 (IRIN) - The humanitarian situation in Djibouti has reached a critical level as a result of consecutive years of drought, the acting United Nations humanitarian coordinator in the Horn of Africa country has ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Drought forcing people into towns, says President Guelleh
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
JIBOUTIVILLE Monday, February 13, 2006 (IRIN) - Djibouti is facing a humanitarian crisis as a result of consecutive years of drought. In an interview with IRIN on 9 February, President Ismail Omar Guelleh talked about his government's plans to contain the ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Struggling to cope with drought
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
JIBOUTIVILLE Friday, February 17, 2006 (IRIN) - Sirad Mohammed sits outside her newly constructed shelter adjacent to the exclusive Gabode suburb of the capital, Djiboutiville, and watches her six children at ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Too early to tell if current rains will avert food needs - WFP
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Wednesday, April 19, 2006 (IRIN) - Rain has been falling in drought-stricken Djibouti for almost two weeks now, but it is too early to tell if the precipitation will eventually be sufficient to overturn the continuing impact of several failed wet seasons, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)... more
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DJIBOUTI: First human case of avian flu
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
JIBOUTI Friday, May 12, 2006 (IRIN) - Health authorities in Djibouti have reported the first human case of the deadly H5N1 bird flu ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Government begins culling poultry
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
JIBOUTI Monday, May 29, 2006 (IRIN) - Following the confirmation of the first case of the deadly H5N1 virus in a two-year-old girl in Djibouti in early May, the government has ordered the mass culling of all poultry in the ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Government begins culling poultry
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
JIBOUTI Monday, May 29, 2006 (IRIN) - Following the confirmation of the first case of the deadly H5N1 virus in a two-year-old girl in Djibouti in early May, the government has ordered the mass culling of all poultry in the ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Potential food shortages, despite ongoing rains
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Wednesday, May 31, 2006 (IRIN) - Most areas of Djibouti have received heavy rains, but there is a high risk that the upcoming dry season will destroy the green
pasture and create possible food ... more
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DJIBOUTI: Drought-affected pastoralists facing tough times
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Friday, June 30, 2006 (IRIN) - Cattle farmers in Djibouti are facing an uncertain future due to continuing drought conditions and a lack of long-term planning for pastoralists in the Horn of Africa state, an early warning agency ... more
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SOMALIA-DJIBOUTI: Troop deployment premature, Djibouti Gov't says
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Wednesday, July 19, 2006 (IRIN) - Deployment of foreign peacekeepers in Somalia - proposed by the African Union and the Intergovernmental Authority on Development - was premature and could make matters worse, Djiboutiâ??s Foreign Minister, Mahamoud Ali Youssouf, ... more
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DJIBOUTI: High prices, declining purchasing power hit urban poor
IRIN - Tuesday, March 27, 2007
AIROBI Wednesday, July 26, 2006 (IRIN) - Increasing commodity prices are exacerbating the plight of the poor in the city of Djibouti, according to a monitoring group. ... more
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