
	Where results make sense

Topic: Hafun

Related Topics

Bosaso

Qardho

Puntland

Qandala

History of Somalia

Majeerteen

Mogadishu

Common Era

Roman Empire

Hemophilia

Haber process

1300s

In the News (Thu 31 Dec 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Somali News Update: Along Somali Coast, Deadly Waters Exact a Small but Grievous Toll
		HAFUN, Somalia, Jan. 12 - Mahado Muse spoke in a monotone, recalling the moment the water poured into her seaside house here on the easternmost point in Africa, a few hours after the tsunami waves stormed through Asia.
		Hafun, a patch of land jutting out into the Indian Ocean near the Horn of Africa's tip, was one of the worst-hit places.
		Hafun, which depends on fishing, lost the only mechanic in town, a man known universally as Ali Mechanic, who somehow kept the aging engines on fishing boats running.
	www.hiiraan.org /2005/jan/somali_news0113_2.htm (701 words)

	Somalia's Northeast Coast Struggles in Wake of Tsunami
		Ali are just two of many of Hafun's residents who have harrowing tales to tell of the loss of family and friends, property, and livelihoods.
		The centuries-old town of Hafun, located on Somalia's northeastern coast, was an important commercial hub in the days of the Italian colonists in the early 1900s.
		Hafun Mayor Abshir Abdi Tangi says the fishing industry was significant, but now most of the boats and equipment in the town have been destroyed.
	www.voanews.com /english/2005-01-17-voa42.cfm (807 words)

	UNICEF - Tsunami disaster — countries in crisis - Post-tsunami school project galvanizes Hafun, Somalia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HAFUN, Somalia, 22 March 2005 - Before the tsunami of 26 December 2004, Hafun was a thriving fishing village off the coast of north-eastern Somalia, with a population of 5,000 and a quiet existence in an otherwise conflict-ridden country.
		Providing education for the children of Hafun is proving to be truly a community-centred project.
		The Mayor of Hafun and the Community Education Committee are actively involved in daily planning and activities designed to make the soon-to-be-built school a joyful learning environment and a unique gathering place for the Hafun community.
	www.unicef.org /emerg/disasterinasia/24615_25685.html (640 words)

	Hafun
		Hafun (Somali: Xaafuun) is a 40 km long low-lying peninsula in the Bari region of northern Somalia.
		The promontory is joined to the mainland at the town of Foar by a sand spit 20 km long, 1-3 km in width and roughly 5 m above sea level.
		The fishing town of Hafun is located 2 km east of the sand spit and has a population of about 5000.
	www.danceage.com /biography/sdmc_Hafun (492 words)

	Hafun
		Hafun was a creature that Tsuburaya Productions' came up with in hopes that it would appear in the Godzilla vs. Redmoon movie.
		The creature was planned to be the son of Redmoon and Erabus and the suit for Hafun would be a modified the Infant Daigoro's suit from the movie Daigoro vs. Golaith (1972).
		Note, no picture of the Hafun suit exists, the above picture was made from modifying a picture of the Infant Daigoro's suit.
	www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/lost_projects/hafun.htm (130 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Africa \| Tsunami devastates Somali island
		Most buildings on the Somali island of Hafun were swept away by the deadly Indian Ocean tsunami, an emergency aid relief team has revealed.
		Dazed inhabitants have moved to higher ground and are wandering about asking for help, as there is no food and no fresh water on the island, he said.
		Hafun's governor asked for emergency assistance and told aid agencies that he feared up to 8,000 people across the island could be affected by the flooding.
	news.bbc.co.uk /2/low/africa/4129639.stm (449 words)

	Somalia wave victims
		Aid workers have described a scene of devastation on the Somali island of Hafun, a fishing community of 2,500.
		Displaced families on Hafun desperately need aid as they have no clean water, food, medicine or shelter as most of their homes and possession were swept away.
		The destruction of roads by the sea is hampering the delivery of aid and trucks loaded with 30 tons of food were stuck in sands 60km away from Hafun on Wednesday.
	www.rstvonline.com /news/somalia_wave_victims.htm (457 words)

	Somali Fisheries Society [SFS]
		HAFUN, Somalia Mahado Muse spoke in a monotone, recalling the moment the water poured into her seaside house here on the easternmost point in Africa, a few hours after the tsunami waves stormed through Asia.
		Hafun, a patch of land jutting into the Indian Ocean near the Horn of Africa's tip, was one of the worst-hit places.
		Sheik Ahmed was frustrated that more people were not interested in hearing his message that their own sinful behavior had prompted the sea to swell.
	www.soma-fish.net /print.php?story=05/01/16/7236160 (884 words)

	Somali Fisherman Survives After Tsunami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		A fishing boat ended up some 600 meters (650 yards) from the beach near destroyed and damaged houses in Hafun, Somalia, Tuesday, Feb. 1, 2005 after it was swept away by the tsunami that struck the Indian ocean Dec. 26, 2004.
		HAFUN, Somalia - Clinging to the wreckage of their wooden boat, the two Somali brothers had just enough time to wave goodbye before a crashing wave separated them forever.
		Hafun, a prosperous fishing village at the end of a narrow peninsula, was hardest hit with at least 19 people killed but many more are missing along the country's northeastern shore.
	www.comcast.net /data/news/2005/02/07/53432.xml (518 words)

	Lawless Somalia poses challenges as world rallies to aid tsunami survivors North County Times - Nation / World - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The biggest challenge of all is the remoteness of the tsunami-struck areas and the lack of infrastructure connecting them to the rest of the country.
		Hafun, which suffered the worst damage, is at the end of a 37-mile finger of land jutting into the Indian Ocean, parts of which were flooded by the tsunami.
		For all the logistical challenges, Hafun was one of the first villages in the world to receive food after the disaster.
	www.nctimes.com /articles/2005/02/04/news/nation/17_12_092_4_05.txt (1161 words)

	Episcopal News Service
		The heart and soul of the Hafun community has been shattered," Ndungane told journalists on January 21 after arriving in Nairobi from Somalia where he had visited the stricken area.
		Hafun, an ancient town more than 800 years old, was razed to the ground after the December 26 tsunami, with its residents losing everything and the problem being compounded by abject poverty, drought, recent floods and civil unrest, the bishop said.
		The Rev. Molefe Tsele, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, accompanied Ndungane in his trip to the war-torn country of 8 million people on the Horn of Africa, where lawlessness is rife.
	www.episcopalchurch.org /3577_57243_ENG_HTM.htm (340 words)

	Unicef - UNICEF support gives relief to Somalia Tsunami victims
		UNICEF is currently assisting 12,000 people in the villages of Hafun, Gara’g, Bender Beyla and Eyl on the north-eastern coastline of Somalia.
		In Hafun half of the homes were destroyed and inhabitants left without clean water, sanitation and food.
		Internally displaced persons in Hafun have been relocated from the school they'd been occupying and classes have resumed for 96 students.
	www.unicef.nl /unicef/show/id=53926/contentid=1250 (425 words)

	Somali Red Crescent Cleans Up Tsunami Mess
		Immediately after the tsunami struck, SRCS volunteers were mobilized from different parts of Bossasso branch and ferried to the scene of destruction: five from Bossasso, seven from Ufyen and eight from Iskushban.
		The other 17 were recruited locally in Hafun to make the 37 volunteer workforce on the ground today.
		The volunteers from Hafun are victims of the disaster, just like the community they are serving.
	www.redcross.org /article/0,1072,0_332_4139,00.html (971 words)

	USATODAY.com - In Africa, a mother's worst horror (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		HAFUN, Somalia —; Mahado Mohamed Musa was in her concrete-block home with her two children when she saw the wall of water hurtling out of the Indian Ocean toward the fishing town of Hafun.
		Two weeks after the tsunami reached this corner of northern Somalia, Hafun is a ruin.
		At her makeshift home, which is covered in plastic sheeting, Musa says she cannot comprehend the disaster that took her son.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-01-09-tsunami-mother_x.htm (608 words)

	Red Cross Red Crescent - News
		Residents of Hafun are still trying to understand why nature turned on them and their thriving little town in such a violent manner.
		Since the disaster, the 60-year-old has put up a shed, which he now calls home, although he tells me that he spends most of his time at the ruins of his house, because he feels that is where he belongs.
		While the people of Hafun try to pick up the broken pieces of their lives, there are those who seek to take advantage of the situation.
	www.ifrc.org /docs/news/05/05021101 (1652 words)

	USATODAY.com - Wailing Somalis share their grief over tsunami (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Most of the victims were from the coastline of the semiautonomous region of Puntland, including the northeastern island of Hafun.
		The delegation led by Anglican Archbishop Njongonkulu Ndungane of Cape Town and the Rev. Molefe Tsele, general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, flew to Hafun.
		"The good news of course is that the people of Hafun are prepared for a new beginning," he said.
	www.usatoday.com /news/world/2005-01-21-somalia-tsunami_x.htm (585 words)

	Tsunami permanently displaces thousands of Somalis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		"The homes of the people of the Hafun peninsula were formerly protected from the high tide by large sand dunes, but these were swept away by the tsunami," Bob McCarthy, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) Emergency Officer for Somalia, told IRIN on Friday.
		Nearly three weeks after the tsunami hit the region, the residents of Hafun were still living on higher ground about a kilometre from the coastline.
		According to McCarthy, residents of the fishing community of Hafun, the worst hit area, had more than half their homes destroyed by the killer wave, leaving them without shelter, clean water, sanitation and food.
	www.namibian.com.na /2005/January/africa/058D5F1A09.html (467 words)

	Lost Project: Godzilla vs. Redmoon (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The plan is a success, as they are able to lure the two monsters together; however, instead of fighting the two monsters mate, as it's discovered that Redmoon and Erabus are male and female of the same species.
		While the SDF is trying to figure out what to do with with the creatures, Hafun is kidnapped by an entrepreneur with the hopes of displaying the creature for profits.
		Unfortunately, Hafun dies in the process of being moved, causing Redmoon and Erabus to go berserk and begin laying waste to the cities in Okinawa.
	www.tohokingdom.com /web_pages/lost_projects/godzilla_vs_redmoon.htm (430 words)

	Chapter GRUNTH <i>to</i> GUARDAFUI of G by The Hobson Jobson Dictionary
		This name Hafun was applied to a town, no doubt the true Opone, which Barbosa (1516) mentions under the name of Afuni, and it still survives in those of two remarkable promontories, viz.
		the Peninsula of Ras Hafun (the Chersonnesus of the Periplus, the Zingis of Ptolemy, the Cape d’Affui and d’Orfui of old maps and nautical directories), and the cape of Jard-Hafun (or according to the Egyptian pronunciation, Gard-Hafun), i.e.
		An attempt has been made to connect the name Hafun with the Arabic af’a, ‘pleasant odours.’ It would then, be the equivalent of the ancient Reg.
	www.bibliomania.com /2/3/260/1274/20025/2.html (754 words)

	Hafun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Hafun juts out to the east of the mid-Bari region (in red) of Somalia
		Hafun today has a population of about 2,500 fisherfolk.
		Hermann M. Fritz and Jose C. Borrero, "Somalia Field Survey after the December 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami", Earthquake Spectra, Vol.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ras_Hafun (502 words)

	AfricaFiles \| Somalia: Fears of water-borne diseases in areas affected by tsunami
		Existing road tracks had become impassable, while the main bridge linking the Hafun peninsula to the mainland was washed away.
		The donation was handed to the interim president Abdullahi Yusuf Ahmed by Guo Chongli, China's ambassador to Kenya, the news agency said on Tuesday.
		McCarthy said UNICEF Somalia, which is working with a local NGO in Hafun and in coordination with OCHA, had received a pledge of $50,000 from the Office of US Foreign Disaster Assistance.
	www.africafiles.org /article.asp?ID=7589 (755 words)

	3. RESULTS FROM THE TRAWL SURVEYS
		A random very high or low catch can severely bias the estimates when the hauls are few.
		This effect is smaller when the material is not split between samples north and south of Ras Hafun, represented by tables A5 and A6, as negative and positive sampling errors tend to balance with a higher number of samples.
		, measured to the 200 m bottom depth contour, and the shelf between Ras Hafun and Ras Mabber is abt 1550 nm
	www.fao.org /WAIRDOCS/FNS/X6037E/x6037e03.htm (1212 words)

	Shuttle images of SOMALIA
		HAFUN: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
		HAFUN PENINSULA: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • •
		RAS HAFUN: • • • • • •
	rove.to /somalia (760 words)

	Somali Fisheries Society [SFS]
		Aid workers have described a scene of devastation on the Somali island of Hafun,
		transported by road from the Gulf of Aden port town of Bosasso to Hafun, WFP
		However, she added that the road from Bosasso to Hafun was in "very bad
	www.soma-fish.net /print.php?story=04/12/30/0357133 (3940 words)

	[No title]
		Roosevelt High School students are collecting money to rebuild the only elementary school in Hafun, Somalia.
		Hafun is a small village in eastern Somalia.
		It's also the hometown of social studies teacher Yusuf Haid and he is directing the effort to raise money for the school.
	www.ksdk.com /news/news_article.aspx?storyid=74776 (209 words)

	20050103p2
		Early last week, two trucks carrying 31 metric tons of food attempted to travel to the remote island but were stuck outside of Hafun because some of the roads are washed out, Carrington said.
		WFP staff and local officials are using 4-by-4 trucks to transport the food to the affected areas.
		In a prepared update, WFP staff described Hafun as a place where most of the houses have been destroyed, personal belongings lay scattered around town and even money is strewn on the ground.
	www.umich.edu /~abpafs/20050103p2.htm (810 words)

	UN Office of the Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery - Countries
		• A UN Human Settlements Program (UN-HABITAT) and UNICEF program, which was launched in August, will provide shelter to over 2,400 individuals in Hafun through the construction of 400 housing units, public buildings, and sanitation facilities.
		• UNICEF’s educational campaign in Hafun trained teachers in disaster management, established temporary classrooms, distributed educational materials, and created a Community Education Committee geared at increasing school enrollment.
		As a result, primary school enrollment in Hafun increased sevenfold, from 50 to 340 students.
	www.tsunamispecialenvoy.org /country-highlights/somalia.asp (440 words)

	Footage and features tsunami-hit Hafun in Somalia - Journalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Footage and features tsunami-hit Hafun in Somalia - Journalism
		Posted: Thu Jan 13, 2005 2:54 pm Post subject: Footage and features tsunami-hit Hafun in Somalia
		You cannot vote in polls in this forum
	www.journalismtalk.com /ntopic226.html (84 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)