Activists report on Somali citizen toll
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More than 1,700 civilians were killed and 2,000 wounded in Somalia during the past year, a local human rights organization said Saturday.
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The United Nations health agency said Friday that the death toll in refugee camps in the Darfur region of Sudan had reached 70,000, and that people would continue dying
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Text of report by Somali independent Shabeelle Media Network website on 20 February  Shabelle Media Network is deeply shocked and dismayed at the restrictions and threats directed at the freedom of local media by the transitional federal government of Somalia.
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The only detailed study into the toll from the violence in Sudan's Darfur region says fleeing families continued to suffer grievous losses after they arrived in displacement camps, and the bloodshed amounts to &quot;a demographic catastrophe.&quot;
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The number of people affected by conflict in the troubled western Sudanese region of Darfur rose to 1.8 million in August, of whom 1.45 million were internally displaced persons (IDPs), the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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The United Nations launches an appeal for 54,000 Somalis it says were affected by the Indian Ocean tsunami.
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Geneva - A total of 70 000 people are estimated to have died in Sudan&#39;s western Darfur region, with hundreds still dying every day, a top United Nations official said on Friday.
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Mortar bombs struck a refugee camp and residential area in Mogadishu on Thursday, killing one person and wounding at least five in the latest in a string of near-daily attacks in Somalia's capital, residents said.
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More than 100 Somali and Ethiopian  migrants drowned when a smugglers' boat capsized off Yemen  earlier this week and 130 more are missing after they were  forced off a second ship, the United Nations said on Friday.
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Earthquake-induced tidal waves that hit Africa's eastern coast killed at least 114 Somalis and partially or fully submerged villages in north-eastern Somalia, the United Nations said on Wednesday.
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Geneva - The death toll from tidal waves that struck nine Indian Ocean countries has risen to 23 700, the International Red Cross said on Monday.
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A grenade attack in northeastern Somalia killed 21 people and wounded 100, officials said Wednesday, raising the toll a day after the explosion.
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NAIROBI, Dec. 31 -- The death toll from violent protests rose dramatically Monday in this East African country as police clamped down on ethnically charged riots fueled by allegations of vote-rigging in the presidential election.
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At least 30 Somali and Ethiopian migrants drowned when a smuggler's boat capsized off the coast of Yemen, the United Nations refugee agency said on Tuesday, adding it was checking reports the death toll was as high as 78.
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JERUSALEM - In its harshest condemnation of Israel since last summer's war, Human Rights Watch charged that most of the Lebanese civilian casualties came from "indiscriminate Israeli air strikes," according to a report to be released today.
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Fighting between government troops and Islamist insurgents in northern Mogadishu has killed at least six people including three family members, residents said on Tuesday.
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A UN team heads to north eastern Somalia to assess the damage caused by waves said to have killed at least 100.