HORN OF AFRICA: IRIN-HOA Weekly Round-up 508 for 6 - 12 March 2010

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Table of contents 1. SOMALIA: Poverty pushes Bosasso children on to streets 2. GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon" 3. SOMALIA: Too many patients, one mental health facility 4. SOMALIA: Abdullahi Aden Ali, "From IDP to city trader" 5. GLOBAL: The impact of grey literature on climate projections 6. SOMALIA: Offering migrants an alternative to death by water SOMALIA: Poverty pushes Bosasso children on to streets BOSASSO, 8 March 2010 (IRIN) - A long civil war, frequent droughts, unemployment and high food prices have led to an increase in the number of street children in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia?s self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, with NGOs and government officials calling for urgent steps to resolve the problem. full report GLOBAL: Prepare for "climaggedon" JOHANNESBURG, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - Rice producing Asian countries had to contend with poor rains in 2009, and now another season of low rainfall has been forecast for some of them, which has prompted concern whether the price of the grain could go up later in 2010. full report SOMALIA: Too many patients, one mental health facility BOSASSO, 9 March 2010 (IRIN) - The number of people seeking mental health treatment has increased in Bosasso, the commercial capital of Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Puntland, despite the existence of only one small health unit, officials said. full report SOMALIA: Abdullahi Aden Ali, "From IDP to city trader" BOSASSO, 10 March 2010 (IRIN) - Abdullahi Aden Ali, 32, arrived in Bosasso, commercial capital of the autonomous region of Puntland, 10 years ago from southern Somalia. His aim, like that of thousands of young Somalis, was to go to Yemen and on to Saudi Arabia. He first fled his home town of Baidao for the capital, Mogadishu, but was again forced out when fighting between warlords intensified. full report GLOBAL: The impact of grey literature on climate projections JOHANNESBURG, 11 March 2010 (IRIN) - Most food crop cultivation in Africa is rain-fed, but climate change is affecting vital rainfall patterns and pushing up temperatures, diminishing yields that could halve in some countries by 2020. This warning has been widely quoted since it first appeared in a synthesis report for policy-makers in 2007 by the authoritative UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). full report SOMALIA: Offering migrants an alternative to death by water BOSASSO, 12 March 2010 (IRIN) - In an attempt to deal with a growing influx of migrants, authorities in Somalia's autonomous region of Puntland are adopting new measures to stop people from undertaking the hazardous journey to Yemen, officials said. full report

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