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In these past three months MSF has cared for 20,800 patients suffering from severe acute malnutrition. Most of these patients have been treated in one of of 51 ambulatory centres where they get a medical consultation and go home with weekly rations of therapeutic food. Families are also given food support rations made up of a corn and soya blend with oil and sugar.

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 Five people are reported to have been killed and at least 17 people wounded after Ethiopian forces fired mortar shells close to Mogadishu’s main market, witnesses said.Mohamud Hussein, a mini-bus driver who witnessed Tuesday’s attack, said: “Three mortar shells landed in Bakara market and hit traders and customers.”

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Like crops, the children are weighed (in a nylon harness seat attached to a scale) and measured (with a tape to record arm circumference). The most severely malnourished are kept overnight for up to a month; the rest go home with a week’s supply of Plumpy’nut, a nutritional paste.

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GONDAR, Ethiopia - Sitting in a leaky, flyblown hut, a few dozen Ethiopian villagers are anxiously waiting to be transported to another world.

They have just been given word that their years of waiting are over, and that soon they will make a 2,000-mile journey by land and air with what is probably the last wave of Ethiopian immigrants to Israel.

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ETHIOPIA’s Kenenisa Bekele successfully defended his Olympic 10,000m title in a competition record time early today, leading teammate Sileshi Sihine in an Ethiopian 1-2. Bekele hit the front 450m from the finish and crossed in 27 minutes, 1.17 seconds to beat the record he set four years ago.

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Delegations from Somalia’s interim government and opposition groups are meeting in Djibouti Saturday for United Nations brokered peace talks.

Two explosions along the road to the airport outside the Somali capital, Mogadishu, Friday briefly delayed President Abdullahi Yousuf and Prime Minister Hussein Nur Adde as they prepared to fly to the meeting. (more…)

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MOGADISHU (AFP) — Ethiopian forces opened fire on two civilian buses near the Somali capital Mogadishu on Friday, killing at least 30 passengers, witnesses told AFP.

Ethiopian soldiers in the town of Arbiska sprayed gunfire on the two vehicles, one of which was travelling from the capital and the other from nearby Afgoye, the witnesses said. (more…)

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The decision by the Prime Minister to sack the Mayor of Mogadishu has caused diverse political opinions among Somalis in particular those interested in finding a lasting peace in Somalia. You only need to skim through news headlines and editorials by the numerous Somali websites – an ingenious technological tool that Somalis have excelled well in using it to report their country’s problems, a point well articulated by Abdirahman Ceynte of Hiiraan.com in his article the Somali Websites: A Competitive Alternative Media and a Force to reckon with. (more…)