Wednesday, August 22, 2007
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A growing concern for Baidoa''s largely agricultural community has been the poor rainfall."People depend on rainfall for farming activities.But this time the rains were not good, which means that people cannot work on their farms. They depend wholly on their farms and now they have no alternative," the official explained.
Meanwhile, UNHCR operations in the town of Galkayo remain severely curtailed following the evacuation in early August of staff working for international non-governmental organizations, including implementing partners of the refugee agency.
UNHCR relocated staff from Galkayo to Garowe, some 200 km to the north. They are waiting for security to improve so that they can return to help some 50,000 IDPs around Galkayo.
The UN refugee agency is also finalizing plans for the repatriation in October of a last group of some 2,000 Somali refugees living in camps in Djibouti.The refugees are from northwest Somalia.
Source: Xinhua, Aug 22, 2007