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Africa Horn
Somalia: 180,000 children acutely malnourished
2008-07-29
(SomaliNet) According to the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF), nearly 180,000 children in Somalia are acutely malnourished, with 25,000 severely malnourished. UNICEF has scaled up its nutrition operation to reach more than 50,000 children under the age of five.
Not that any foreign aid workers can live in Somalia, not that any ship with food aid can get to a Somali port without being attacked by pirates, and not that anyone in Somalia appears to be grateful for the aid ...
Meanwhile, a new survey carried out by the Food Security Analysis Unit in Somalia has found that there has been an 11 per cent increase in malnutrition in the last six months.

"So far we have been lucky to be strongly backed by our donors. However, with the recent increase in malnutrition rates and the need for accelerated humanitarian assistance, more funds are required for us to continue and expand our programmes effectively," said Christian Balslev-Olesen, UNICEF Representative to Somalia.
Posted by:Steve White

#5  See also NOSI.ORG for a report of the PIRATE SCOURGE IN EAST AFRICA.
Posted by: JosephMendiola   2008-07-29 20:20  

#4  Somalia: proof of what 49 years of Marxism, socialism, and tribalism can accomplish.
Posted by: Darrell   2008-07-29 19:56  

#3  I have been reading about famine in Africa for the last 50 years. The problem is cause or at least exacerbated by the total lack of self control exhibited by most African governments and peoples by punishing any tendencies towards productivity exhibited by any individual. This isn't going to get better by itself. If we are unwilling to take the requisite actions to impose order and stability, then we should just back away and let nature take its course and quit publishing articles like this. Further, the idiocy exhibited by some of their governments in being selective about the kind of food aid (nonGM) they are willing to accept makes it just too hard to help these fools. Darwinism at its finest.
Posted by: RWV   2008-07-29 13:37  

#2  UNIMIX....? I'm no dietician, but a bit rough on the bowel isn't it?
Posted by: Besoeker   2008-07-29 10:19  

#1  Let the mighty UN handle it. That's what we pay dues for.
Posted by: bigjim-ky   2008-07-29 10:00  

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