Top United Nations officials on Saturday strongly condemned the killing of over 90 civilians, including 32 children, and the wounding of hundreds more in a village near Homs, and stressed that those responsible must be held accountable.
Observers from the UN Supervision Mission in Syria (UNSMIS) confirmed the killing after having viewed the bodies in the village of Houla, where they also confirmed from an examination of ordnance that artillery and tank shells were fired at a residential neighbourhood.
WFP is working with communities on a variety of asset-creation projects - rainwater harvesting for human and livestock use, soil and water conservation, rehabilitation of degraded land and the production of drought-tolerant crops. These assets and the development of related skills enable communities to improve their resilience and increase food sufficiency.
Of 37 stool samples collected from patients in Mogadishu during the reporting week, 19% tested
positive for cholera on lab culture. Current armed conflict affecting the Afgooye corridor and parts of
Mogadishu resulting in renewed population displacement could accelerate the spread of cholera in
Mogadishu.
MOGADISHU, May 26, 2012 (AFP) - Al-Qaeda-linked Somali militants vowed Saturday to intensify the war against government and African Union troops, despite the fall of their key stronghold of Afgoye, the latest in a string of military losses.
"God willing we will continue the war and we will win the battle without doubt," said Sheik Abdiaziz Abu Musab, spokesman for the hardline Shebab, a day after AU and Somali troops entered Afgoye, a former strategic rebel base.
According to ANDMA, preliminary information indicate that 2 persons have died and 40 houses destroyed as a result of flash floods that occurred in the afternoon of 25 May in Kariz village of Gosfandi District, Sari Pul Province,
ANDMA has also informed that though there was heavy rainfall in Sari Pul City late in the afternoon, flooding was not reported.
UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs:
