Somalia: Hundreds of Displaced People Reach Bosasso with Hard life Facing (RBC NEWS)

ABDALLE MUUMIN
RBC NEWS

BOSASSO (RBC Radio) - Hundreds of Somalis refugee forced to flee from the war in the southern part of the country are coming here Bosasso, the port town of northern east Somalia day-by-day, RBC Radio reports.

Many of the internally displaced people are reaching the overcrowded and unsanitary camps in Bosasso where their condition of livelihood is becoming harder, some of the IDPs tell their stories to RBC Radio correspondent.

Maryan Abdi, 27 is four month pregnant mother. She came this camp of Buulo-Elay before three weeks after long journey from Mogadishu, the capital of Somalia. She says she can not see what she expected.

“I came this Camp of east Bosasso before three weeks, I have nothing to do. I left my husband. The life here is very difficult”, Maryan said. She added there is no any aid agency helps us.

Buulo-Elay camp is overcrowded now. More than 10,000 refugees are currently living. The authorities if this camp said many of new displaced people are coming day after day.

Buulo- Mingis is an other camp which is in the south side of Bosasso. Approximately 1,200 of displaced people already lived but the number is now increasing very soon because new displacement are coming these days. Nearly six hundred people arrived since the beginning of this month.

Many of the new displaced people are women and children. Who ran from the continuing fighting between government forces and the Islamic militant group Al-Shabab, 

Ali Yusuf, 8 years old boy. He says that here is no any school to go and like many of his young friends play all the time.

“I came here with my mother, we left my father after we fled from Mogadishu before two months. I am not happy because I do not see my father”, Ali told RBC Radio. He says his father is alive.

The governor of Bari region Musse Gelle Yusuf has recently issued an appeal to the aid agencies but the respond to that appeal is not ready.

 Hassan Said, head of the refugee camps in Bosasso said the people are I need of food, shelter, and education as well as health care.

Local NGOs who made the last survey had warned the unsanitary resident of these camps may cause diseases. While many of the displaced children are now suffering from diarrhea.

“There is an emergency situation in terms of nutrition”, especially for children under the age of five, in these camps, says Mohammud Ahmed from Bosasso local NGO.

The UN agencies operate in this region do nothing else but renting expensive cars and houses, the locals accuse.

Halima Mohamed, mother of two children said the only thing that she felt is the stability after long trip from Mogadishu to Bosasso by a car. The life here is difficult, she says.

For 5 dollars a month, she rents a small hut in Tula Absame, a refugee camp in this northern Somali port of Bosasso where increasing numbers of people are flocking after fleeing from the war in the southern part of the country.

Halima’s husband, Gulled has begun to earn in a repairing houses where he receives for about three dollars a day. Halima told RBC Radio three dollars worth nothing except a lunch.

Hundreds of migrants who came here started populating the streets of Bosasso in search of a place to sleep before embarking on a hellish boat crossing to Yemen that is another danger. Hundreds of migrants die in the red sea after they are forced to unload the boats.

in Boqolka Bush camp, Ubah Abdi, a pretty 23-year-old woman from Mogadishu is still recovering from the grueling seven-day journey from the capital.

The town is full of fighting, and there’s no work, that’s why I ran away,” she says. “I want to go anywhere, I don’t want to be in Somalia any more”.

Ubah says that everything she owned was stolen in Mogadishu and knows she will have to work hard in Bosasso to pay the smugglers.

Any how these people are now appealing the local administration and the UN agencies for help.

Source: RBC Radio