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Summary: A Three days workshop on human rights, investigative documentation, monitoring and advocacy {IDMA} was held at the premises of CCR in Mogadishu. As More Migrants Leave For Yemen Boat Goes Missing. Sources close to the brokers who arranged the passage for the migrants claimed that twenty-seven were found dead while twenty-eight were captured alive in MARFA off the coast of Yemen. The truth is that hundred of migrants have already lost their lives in the last five years included many children. Unscrupulous traffickers have been known to throw passengers over board. There is also an alarming report about the scarcity of water and draught in the south and central regions of the country, which has already caused the death of eighteen children while others are suffering the effects of ill nourishment and diseases. Food and medicines are most urgently needed now that this year expected crops would be very low due to low rainfall. The severe drought affects an estimated 1.2 million children, whom would be especially vulnerable to malnutrition and disease. The number is expected to rise sharply as the drought worsens in Southern Somalia, not to forget years of inter clan fighting and lack of basic social structure. A 70% here are not immunised against measles. It is evident that the children need complete assistance, which includes food, cash assistance, water relief and rehabilitation, livestock, survival and health nutrition programmes. The worst affected areas are GEDO, LOWER AND MIDDLE JUBA, MIDDDLE SHABELE, and BAY AND BAKOL. THE CCR delegation left for a 6 days assistance tour of the mentioned regions. The aim of the tour was to assess the scale of the drought and how is affecting the inhabitants and their livestock. The CCR appeals to the UN, international NGOs and local NGO to extend their assistance to the Somalia children.
Youth, women, religious groups, traditional leaders and intellectuals attended it. Local business people founded it. The objectives were to fully understand the IDMA programme, as well as human rights and violations.
It benefited 40 participants, who currently have a good idea on the IDMA programme as they discussed human violations since the outbreak of the civil war fifteen years ago.
A boat carrying 700 Somalian and Ethopian migrants destined for Yemen went missing after leaving the north eastern cost of Somalia recently; according to sources in BOSASO most of the passengers were young men between the ages of 15 to 35 from Southern Somalia and Ethiopia. The travellers paid between $30and $50 each.