Thousands of Somalis are demonstrating for the fourth day between Mogadishu and the town of Afgoye demanding food, water and shelter. Press TV's correspondent reported from Somalia's capital city Mogadishu on Thursday that the demonstrators condemned the World Food Program (WFP) and United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) for having stopped food aid deliveries.
Thousands of people living in refugee camps in southern Somalia have run out of food, our correspondent said and added that the elderly and the women were near death as they had nothing to eat or drink. He continued that he had contacted the aid agencies and their reply had been that they were helpless as aid deliveries had ceased due to the increasing insecurity.
Somalia has become an increasingly hostile environment for humanitarian aid workers, who provide crucial assistance to those affected by the country's protracted conflict.
Aid workers, who had managed to assist Somalia even during the most lawless periods before 2006, have been the target of dozens of killings and kidnappings in 2008 and now watch helplessly from neighboring Kenya as the country's security situation spirals out of control.
Meanwhile, two other large demonstrations were held on Thursday in Mogadishu in support of peace and the new government led by President Sheikh Sharif Ahmed.