Word: ogaden
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...impact of relief food shortfalls on already vulnerable children," UNICEF said on Aug. 6. "As therapeutic feeding programs reach more hot-spot districts, the number of severely malnourished children receiving treatment will increase." The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) says the problem in the ethnic Somali region, Ogaden, is complicated even further due to "insurgent activity and security operations" that are disrupting trade networks and the movement of people and livestock. (See pictures of Ethiopia's harvest of hunger...
...placing security and politics above humanitarian concerns in that area? That's not true. Most of the humanitarian agencies are operating there. Only those who find it difficult to distinguish between political interference and humanitarian assistance are restricted. I can give my assurance that the Ogaden is receiving the same level of care as other affected parts of the country...
...greatest risk is of a regional war, fusing conflicts in Somalia; the Ogaden region of eastern Ethiopia, where Eritrea-backed separatists are fighting the Ethiopian army; and across the Ethiopia-Eritrea border. Ken Menkhaus, a professor of political science at Davidson College, stresses "the danger ... that all these interlocking conflicts will ignite a larger conflagration." Eritrea is now the base for an alliance of Somali nationalist rebels, the UIC and separatist Ethiopian rebels from the Ogaden National Liberation Front. In July the U.N. Monitoring Group on Somalia, based in Nairobi, said Eritrea was supplying Somali insurgents with "huge" amounts...
...TIME: And your view is that the Ogaden National Liberation Front is a threat? Meles: Absolutely. It's not a theoretical threat. They killed more than 70 people just a few months ago in a camp all of them civilians. It is a real threat. And it has to be curtailed...
...TIME: There are specific allegations that there have been human rights abuses in the Ogaden region. How do you answer these? Meles: We are supposed to have burned villages. I can tell you, not a single village, and as far as I know not a single hut has been burned. We have been accused of dislocating thousands of people from their villages and keeping them in camps. Nobody has come up with a shred of evidence. Nobody. And I can tell you there are many intelligence organizations in the Horn of Africa. This is a very volatile area, and understandably...