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  • THE WEB SITE REFUNITE.ORG AS SUPPORT TOOLS FOR FINDING MISSING SOMALI PERSONS
    i dispersi somali rintracciati
    May 9 2012

    Thousands of separated Somali families needs support reunification. Over a million and half internally displaced persons 700.000 refugees outside the borders of Somalia are approximate figures of exodus in Somalia since 1991, when the overthrow of Siad Barre caused civil war and an escalation of humanitarian crisis which is still ongoing. Thousands of Somali families are scattered throughout East Africa, Yemen and Saudi Arabia. ...
  • THE GUARANTEE OF SUPPORT TO DISPLACED IN SOUTHERN SUDAN
    Counseling, distribution of hygiene kits, tarpaulins for protection from bad weather, blankets, mosquito nets and soap
    May 8 2012

    Starting from the declaration of independence of South Sudan from the North of the last July, the crisis in South Sudan doesn’t stop: there are still 110,000 IDPs fleeing from border clashes, who are abandoning the few worldly possessions in the disputed land of Abey. They have been accommodated tens of kilometers further south, in the makeshift refugee camps of Agok, Turalei and...
  • THE 1st OF MAY IN SOMALIA
    This year the 1st of May in Gaalkacyo, Somalia, has been different
    May 2 2012

    “About 200 IDPs, that INTERSOS is supporting within the projects of micro-farms, celebrate the Labor Day for the first time” says Marco Procaccini, INTERSOS Protection Coordinator in Somalia “Many of those, as IDPs lost their livelihoods and became completely dependent on international aid.
    Starting from last summer, INTERSOS began to support them in the production of honey and vegetables: that’s why today...
  • ZAREEBA, AN INSTRUMENT FOR OVERCOMING THE RURAL CONFLICTS
    In a region increasingly parched from lack of rain, this mechanism of dialogue, supported by the INTERSOS staff, has been established to solve conflicts and disputes caused by natural resources and fields damaged by livestock grazing
    Apr 16 2012

    12.000 IDPs and refugees have gone back to West and Central Darfur in the last year and a half. A growing number that brings life back in those villages abandoned because of the conflict. The increased security on the border between Chad and Sudan and the efforts made over the years by INTERSOS to create and oversee services in the remote rural areas, finally give hope to leave behind the wounds of war.
  • FROM THE REFUGEE CAMP OF MBERRA. THE STORY OF A MALIAN WOMAN
    Apr 6 2012

    “My name is Hama (a made up name), I come from the tribe of Kel Tinakawat Sharif. I was born in 1966 in Timbuktu, where I attended shool between 1973 and 1978.

    After the retirement of my father as an employee of the State, my family returned to our home village, Loutt Tinti, 30 km far from Timbuktu. When I got back there, like all girls of my age, I tried to start studying again but, in the end, I left school.

    Since that mo...
  • SUDAN: IT’S WAR ON THE BORDER WITH THE SOUTH. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE AT RISK
    The threat of a bloody conflict is always more concrete. The International Community is currently trying to dislocate the refugees, despite the security problems and the difficulties in logistics
    Mar 30 2012

    Armed clashes broken out on Monday the 26th on the border, between Sudan's government forces and troops of South Sudan. The situation is particularly confused because of the Sudanese Air Force bombing and the mutual accusations of armed attacks; the concern is growing because of the violence escalation that is causing more than 100.000...
  • SEXUAL EXPLOITATION IN DORUMA: THE REFUSAL OF JANETTE
    a 14 year old girl, together with our staff in Congo, managed to free herself from a fate that wanted her exploited and uneducated.
    Mar 26 2012

    Janette –a made up name- is a 14 year old girl, who lives with her grandmother in Doruma, in the Zigbi district which is mostly populated by the refugees of the Gangala war. The 60-year old widow who is hosting her, used to live in the village of Katiga, 12km from Gangala, before the war occurred.

    Her father was killed in December 2009 by the LRA rebels of Joseph Kony in Natulubu, a village  on the border of...
  • MAURITANIA: Emergency Refugees from Mali
    We are helping the refugees fleeing the battles between government forces and Tuareg rebels
    Mar 20 2012

    We are providing aid in the city of Fassala. From Mali, about 36,000 people are crossing the border to flee the battles between government forces and Tuareg rebels.

    We are hosting the refugees in the “transit center”, taking care of the most serious cases, distributing food and water and assigning a place for the night. In the M’beira refugee camp, 50 Km from Fassala,...
  • AN NGO RESPONSE TO THE LONDON CONFERENCE TO SOMALIA
    Mar 9 2012

    Somali NGOs and international NGOs working in Somalia wish to reiterate their concerns about the international community’s failure to depart from securitised approaches to Somalia.

    We welcome some commitments made in London such as the recognition by governments of the need to work with and listen to Somali people, the call for action to address human rights abuses and to end the culture of impunity, the encourage...
  • THE MOST VULNERABLE IDPs ARE FINALLY REAPING THE REWARDS OF THEIR HARD WORK
    Mar 9 2012

    As we have already mentioned – INTERSOS supports 12 micro-farms for the production of vegetables and honey in a  semi-arid area of Somalia in the Centre-North, not far from Gaalkacyo Town. Recently IDPs and host communities have been able to harvest their first crops thanks to their commitment and to INTERSOS’s support.

    The first tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, beans and beets have been cropped and sold wit...