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| Somalia: 1.2 million people need food, UN agency warns |
| 2007-08-29 |
| (AKI) - With below-normal rains, an influx of displaced people, insecurity and worsening health conditions sparking a "dramatic deterioration" in Somalia's Shabelle region, long viewed as the strife-torn country's breadbasket, the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today appealed for 22.4 US million dollars to feed 1.2 million people and avoid a looming break in food supplies. The number of people in need represents an increase of 200,000 over previous estimates. Without new contributions, food will start running out in the faction-riven East African country in October, the Rome-based WFP said. "The Shabelle regions usually export food to other regions, but this year they cannot feed themselves so the most vulnerable require our help," WFP Country Director Peter Goossens said. Also, families driven from the capital, Mogadishu, by fighting need food for the coming months. "Donors were extremely generous toward the people of Somalia in this tough year, and I appeal for that spirit to continue to help end the suffering of the growing number of weakest Somalis, mainly women and children. We cannot desert them in their time of need," he added. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #1 Been there. Done that. Got the body bags. You can all starve. |
| Posted by: Gary and the Samoyeds 2007-08-29 23:02 |