· May, 2006

Stories about Humanitarian Response from May, 2006

Extensive Flooding in Suriname

  9 May 2006

HEAVY FLOODING has affected more than 157 villages in Suriname over the past 48 hours and 15,000 people have been displaced already. “Operation Falawatra” (Operation “Low Tide”), the government's aid operation currently being carried out by the national army and police, has been hampered because of continued torrential rainfall, and...

Landing at the Iraqi Blogodrome

The biggest barrier to understanding the reality of today's Iraq is not being able to feel what it is like living in a state of continuous war and lawlessness. On Wednesday the BBC led on the story that 50 people had been killed in one day in Iraq. Yet the...

Mexico: Riots in San Salvador Atenco

  5 May 2006

In a story that has barely gotten mention in the English-language press, Ulises Mejia writes about the riots which erupted in the town of San Salvador Atenco near Mexico City. In Spanish, Jay of Arkham Asylum says that he has “lost all of the little faith that I had in...

Sudan: Peace deal

  5 May 2006

Sudan Watch reports via Reuters that the Sudanese government has agreed a peace deal – in breaking news today, one rebel group has also agreed to sign.

Malaysia: Silence on Darfur

  3 May 2006

Malaysian politician Lim Kit San questions the foreign ministry parliamentary secretary on why Malaysia as the current chairman of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) and Organisation of Islamic Conference (OIC) is not speaking out on Darfur genocide. Lim Kit San is disappointed with the secretary's reply.

Indonesia: Failed state index

  3 May 2006

Sarapanekonomi does not agree with the latest index of Failed States in 2006 published by an organisation called Funds for Peace. The post lists couple of obvious examples supporting the blogger's claim that the index is not accurate.

Sudan: SLA

  2 May 2006

Sudan Watch points to a op/ed in the Daily Trust that claims the SLA/JEM are not serving the people they claim to support.

Sudan: Friends of Darfur

  2 May 2006

The Voice of Somaliland Diaspora-Ottawa – posts a statement from the “Darfur Friends Association”…Any peace agreement that only signed in order to silence the guns, can stop the war for some years, but it could never bring about a lasting peace. This only can be achieved eliminating the reasons of...

DRC: Katanga province

  1 May 2006

Breaking hearts in the heart of darkness reports on a recent field trip to the Katanga province in the South East of the DRC writing that the region has received no humanitarian assistance despite large numbers of displaced people, sexual exploitation of women by militias and the Congolese army.

Ethiopia: Pastoral leaders meet with the UN

  1 May 2006

Meskel Square reports on a meeting in Ethiopia between “four pastoralist groups from as far afield as Somali region” and leaders of the main UN agencies working in the country. “The main topics of conversation were the drought and the need for greater official recognition of all of Ethiopia's pastoralist...

Sudan: Genocide in Darfur

  1 May 2006

Sudan: The Passion of the Present reports on yesterday's demonstrations in the US against the genocide in Darfur. “They protested a civil war in which the Sudanese government and its proxies have killed about 200,000 people in Darfur, in that nation's south, and driven an estimated 2.5 million people from...