BBC News with Sue Montgomery
The aid agency Unicef has
airlift
ed food and medicine to malnourished children in southern Somalia, victims of the drought in the Horn of Africa. The delivery was the first since the Islamist militant group al-Shabab, which controls most of Somalia, dropped its ban on working with foreign relief agencies. Here's our Africa editor Martin Plaut.
Unicef has announced that it has flown a cargo of five tonnes of
essential
nutritional supplies and medicines to treat severely malnourished children into the town of Baidoa, northwest of the capital Mogadishu. The area is under the control of al-Shabab, which had until recently refused permission for international aid agencies which wanted to work in the areas they hold. Rozanne Chorlton, the Unicef representative for Somalia, said al-Shabab had provided assurances that the agency could operate without undue interference.
The prime minister of the Hamas administration in the Gaza Strip, Ismail Haniyeh, has called on all Palestinian militant groups to stop firing rockets into Israel. From Gaza, Jon Donnison reports.
This week's violence brought an end to several months of relative calm. At least nine missiles were fired into Israel by small militant groups in Gaza, sometimes called Salafist jihadis. They regard Hamas, who govern in the strip, as too moderate. This week, Israel has also launched attacks on Gaza, killing one Palestinian and injuring around 50. Now though the Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh has called for an end to the