___________________________________________________________________ S O M A L I A N E W S U P D A T E ____________________________________________________________________ No 7 September 1, 1992. ISSN 1103-1999 ____________________________________________________________________ Somalia News Update is published irregularly via electronic mail and fax. Questions can be directed to antbh@strix.udac.uu.se or to fax number +46-18-151160. All material is free to quote as long as the source is stated. ____________________________________________________________________ >From dmorse Sun Aug 30 08:58:35 1992 From: Dorothy Morse Subject: Somalia food news /* Written 10:41 am Aug 28, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:soc.cult.afric */ /* --------- - "Somalia food news" ---------- */ /* Written 5:39 am Aug 28, 1992 by dmorse in cdp:reg.africa */ Morning Edition, National Public Radio, reports this morning that the 145,000 tons of food ordered by President Bush to go to Somalia will not reach that country until December. Thus this food cannot count as part of that needed to keep millions of Somalians from starving by Christmas. Some additional food is being flown in by the World Food Program. I believe the amount is 5000 tons. I spoke yesterday with a representative of the International Committee for the Red Cross, Ann Stingle. She said the need now is 60,000 tons of food a month. The current supply is 20,000 tons a month, and US additional aid is expected to add something to that, but how much is not sure. I also am uncertain as to the source and amount of food that starts to go into Somalia today on US planes--four flights will carry 9 1/2 tons of beans, rice, and cooking oil. whether this is additional food or exiting existing supplies that can be moved into Somalia on Pentagon planes is unclear. In addition, the commander of the US military personnel there says that in view of the fact that his soldiers are to be unarmed at Somali request, he will pull out if a single soldier is killed. This seems totally reasonable to me, but it opens up another pitfall for somalian aid. I think we need to keep trying to find out the real facts, so that if the whole thing rolls back down hill (for example, if public attentio turns away, and governments just stop shipping additional food) we can publicize these facts. The old hamburger commercial used to ask "Where's the beef?" I think that in the case of somalia, we should keep asking, "Where's the food?' It seems to me that we can consider this problem solved not when governments announce what they are going to do, but when relief agencies in Somalia say, "We are finally getting an adequate flow of food and we are confident it will continue." There are high hopes for the present initiative, but concerns remain. Dorothy WHAT WE CAN DO FOR SOMALIA IN TERMS OF CAMPAIGNING: FREE ACTIONS Phone: Clinton Campaign Hotline: 1-800-995-2388 Faxing: Some free fax numbers have been set up via SUNET, in Sweden. You can use these on Internet or Bitnet. Just use them as you would use any e-mail address. You can also use them on IGC (peacenet, etc.). Use email, and at the "To:" prompt, type in the free fax number. Do *not* put "fax:" in front of the number. From IGC's standpoint, you are simply emailing Internet, and there is no charge for this apart from your online time charge. SUNET turns the email into the fax (that actually comes out the fax machine). The free fax numbers available so far are: Secretary General Boutros Boutros-Ghali of the UN: Boutros_Ghali@f00912129634879.fax.sunet.se Dir. of US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, James Kunder: James_Kunder@f00912026475269.fax.sunet.se Dir. of Bureau of E. African Affairs, State Dpt., Mark Johnson Mark_Johnson@f00912026470810.fax.sunet.se Asst. Secy, Bur. of African Affairs, State Dpt., HJ Cohen HJ_Cohen@f00912026476301.fax.sunet.se Clinton HQ Bill_Clinton@f00915013722292.fax.sunet.se EC's ECHO (humanitarian assistance to Third World) (European Community) Mr_Molinier@f0093222992876.fax.sunet.se Mr_Molinier@f0093222992877.fax.sunet.se Development_Section@f0093222992872.fax.sunet.se Development_Section@f0093222992875.fax.sunet.se Development_Section@f0093222992894.fax.sunet.se Other free actions, of course, are local phone calls. If you live in the 202 area code, you can call the State Dept. people and National Publi Public Radio's Listener Comment Line. In New York, in the 212 area code, call the United Nations and the US Ambassador to the UN. Missions to the UN of foreign countries also have 212 area codes; I don't have them listed. I hope to add them; in the meantime, if you find them, email them to me. In Chicago, people could try calling the Carol Mosely Braun campaign. In San Francisco, call the Barbara Boxer campaign(this number is given below). FAIRLY INEXPENSIVE ACTIONS Long-distance phone calls have an impact, take only a few minutes, and can be kept short, thus costing only $2-$3. Numbers to call: James Kunder, Off. Foreign Disaster Assistance: 202-647-8924 State Dept. Public Comment Line: 202-647-6575 National Public Radio Listener Comment Line: 202-775-8686 HJ Cohen, Bur. of African Affairs: 202-647-2530 Mark Johnson, Bur. of East African Affairs: 202-647-9742 Washington Post 202-334-6000 Office of the Secretary General of the UN: 212-963-5012 US Ambassador to the UN, Edward Perkins: 212-415-4404 MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour: 703-998-2844 Barbara Boxer Senate Campaign, San Francisco: 415-771-3700 European Community Urgent Aid (Mr. Herman), Brussels, Belgium 322-235-1111 322-235-1154 (prefix with 011 if calling thru AT&T) REGULAR FAX NUMBERS (for those without access to Internet, IGC, or Bitnet--e.g., if you make a leaflet for general distribution, you can use these numbers. People can use them to fax from commercial faxing establishments.) Also included are numbers that do not have free faxing set up at present. UN Sec. Gen. Boutros-Ghali 212-963-4879 Mark Johnson (see above) 202-647-0810 Herman Jay Cohen (see above) 202- 647-6301 James Kunder (see above) 202-647-5269 Public Broadcasting (Macneil/Lehrer): 202-293-3435 Bill Clinton's HQ: 501-372-2292 US Ambassador to the UN, Edward Perkins: 212-415-4443 PRESIDENT BUSH: 202-456-2461 PHONE AND FAX NUMBERS FOR UN MISSIONS IN NEW YORK CITY. All are area code 212. Country phone no. fax no. Egypt 879-6300 794-3874 Germany 856-6200 856-6280 Italy 486-9191 486-1036 Kenya 421-4740 486-1985 Saudi Arabia 697-4830 983-4895 Spain 661-1050 unlisted Security Council Permanent Members: Russian Federation 861-4900 628-0252 China 870-0300 870-0333 United Kingdom 745-0200 745-0316 USA 415-4000 415-4443 (Pickering is at 415- 4404) France 308-5700 689-5769 Others on the Security Council: Austria 949-1840 953-1302 Belgium 599-5250 599-6843 Cape Verde 472-0333 794-1398 Ecuador 935-1680 935-1835 Hungary 752-0209 755-5395 India 751-0900 751-1393 Japan 223-4300 751-1966 Morocco 421-1580 980-1512 Venezuela 557-2055 557-3528 Zimbabwe 980-9511 755-4188 Taken from April 1992 directory of Permanent Missions to the United Nations, No. 270. 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