Australian Georgia Tacey has witnessed first-hand the result of sexual violence against children,a ‘weapon’ Save the Children say armed forces are using more.
A suicide car bomb exploded early on Sunday evening and was followed by a shootout between al-Shabaab militants and security forces.
The decision effectively strips their legal status,rendering them deportable and leaving their 200,000 children in limbo.
Islamist insurgent group al-Shabaab said it was behind the assault on the Elite Hotel in Lido beach.
The changes are part of the transitional government's plan to lead the country to democracy after the toppling last year of autocrat Omar al-Bashir.
Uganda will deploy military forces to help with ground-based pesticide spraying,while two planes for aerial spraying will arrive as soon as possible.
Swarms of the insects are breeding in Djibouti,Eritrea and Sudan and neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia where they are devouring swaths of farming land.
Locust hunters are battling to contain the worst plague to hit the Horn of Africa for some seven decades,thanks in part to climate change.
The strikes were in retaliation against a bombing in the capital Mogadishu on Saturday that killed nearly 100 people.
A truck bomb exploded at a busy security checkpoint in Somalia's capital on Saturday morning,killing at least 90 people including many students,authorities said.
The Syl hotel is popular with politicians,according to police sources,and was hosting a gathering of politicians and other local community leaders at the time of the attack.