360,000 who fled Somalia facing hunger-WFP

Daily chitchat.

Moderators: Moderators, Junior Moderators

Forum rules
This General Forum is for general discussions from daily chitchat to more serious discussions among Somalinet Forums members. Please do not use it as your Personal Message center (PM). If you want to contact a particular person or a group of people, please use the PM feature. If you want to contact the moderators, pls PM them. If you insist leaving a public message for the mods or other members, it will be deleted.
Locked
User avatar
Hiiraan boy
SomaliNet Heavyweight
SomaliNet Heavyweight
Posts: 4756
Joined: Tue Sep 09, 2003 7:00 pm
Location: California

360,000 who fled Somalia facing hunger-WFP

Post by Hiiraan boy »

(SomaliNet) The UN World Food Programme (WFP) said Friday that many of the 365,000 Somalis who fled the capital Mogadishu over the past several months are still battling hunger and even cholera.

But a lull in heavy fighting and help from the government would allow the WFP to more than triple the number of people receiving emergency food rations in the coming days, it said. “We have to help these people now. Women, children and the elderly are sheltering from the rain under trees and cholera is spreading,” WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said in a statement.

The UN agency said it delivered food to 32,000 people west of Mogadishu last week. It hoped to reach at least 100,000 people soon, including 42,000 people in Merka, who were due receive food today.

It also planned to deliver aid to previously inaccessible areas. It cited Qoryoley, west of Mogadishu, and Brava, some 220 kilometres to the south. -Reuters
Top
Locked
  • Similar Topics
    Replies
    Views
    Last post

Return to “General - General Discussions”