More than three million Somalis in need of aid

[Xamari_76]

I dont understand how people are starving...ive seen it on the news this morning...isnt the land better than the northern regions like puntland iyo somaliland interms of growing produceing...I know this war has displaced alot of people and is one of the main reasons....Somalia is a recgonized country where are the aid agenices?



The number of people needing humanitarian aid in Somalia has leapt 77% this year to more than 3,2-million, an authoritative new study has shown.

The report by the Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU), seen by Reuters on Monday, paints a bleak picture of a crisis compounded by failed rains, rising food prices, inflation and the worst insecurity in the Horn of Africa nation since the early 1990s.

"Somalia is now facing the worst security situation in the last 17 years, with increased armed conflict and fighting, targeting of humanitarian aid workers, military build-up, increased sea piracy and political tension," the report said.

"This situation is severely undermining economic activities and humanitarian delivery, thus contributing to the overall deterioration in the humanitarian situation."

The FSAU was set up by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation to provide humanitarian agencies with reliable data from the lawless country.

More than 8 000 civilians have died since the start of last year in fighting pitting Somalia's interim government and its Ethiopian military allies against Islamist insurgents.

The violence has driven about one million more from their homes, triggering what aid workers say is the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa. -- Reuters

[makumba59]

"Somalia is a recgonized country where are the aid agenices?"


Right there in the tick of it!

Now go boil some of that recognition and feed it to those starving.


Ps...If you havent got the capacity nor the inteligence to recognize yourself FIRST, no amount of outside recognition is goin to make a difference. Take a look at Somaliland a perfect example of what people can achieve if they believe in themselves; the rising sun of the east!

[Jareerboi]

Somalia has AIDS

HIV/AIDS in Somalia: doctors

Agence France-Presse - June 19, 2007
Ali Musa Abdi


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BURAO, Somalia, June 19 (AFP)- The Female Genital Mutilation (FMG) of Somali women has increased the number of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and is a recipe for higher rates of HIV/AIDS in the country, a Somali gynaecologist warns.

"The genital cut on Somali girls between the age of seven and 10 is a dangerous exercise that has brought misery to the lives of Somali women, because beside the health risk, the mutilation traumatizes the young, compelled to follow the painful tradition," gynaecologist Hodan Farah told AFP at the general hospital in Burao.

Burao is located 280 kilometres (175 miles) east of Hargeisa, capital of the breakaway republic of Somaliland which declared independence from the rest of Somalia in May 1991, five months after dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled. It has yet to be recognised by the outside world.

"Objects used for the excision are not sterilized and at the same time could again be used to mutilate more women, who could already be HIV positive," Hodan lamented.

Another doctor and four other medical personnel at the hospital agreed, pointing out that there were already HIV cases in Somaliland where, due to a lack of proper awareness campaigns, people are still not aware of the risk of infection.

But an elderly religious man immediately dismissed the concerns expressed by the medical personnel.

"AIDS is a hazardous message from Allah to adulterers and other turncoats, who act sexually against nature," religious elder Abdi Dahir Ali said.

"Any person who remains committed to his legally accepted wife would not be affected by the so-called sickness. The world is not a safe place while homosexuals and lesbians are free to spoil the planet," Ali added.

Asked about the use of condoms, Ali warned that the condoms themselves could be infected.

"White people are very notorious when speaking about other races. STDs were first brought to Africa by the colonial soldiers and AIDS originated from the United States, that is California," Ali claimed.

But Hodan warned that if the FMG is not legally forbidden in Somaliland, "the practice would inflict disastrous health risks for its women and society at large."

The Somaliland government estimates that only one percent of its population is HIV positive, but aid agencies say the number is slightly higher.

"The situation is not like in neighbouring Kenya, Djibouti and Ethiopia, but if massive awareness and preventive measures are not taken, the number of infected people might increase sharply," an expatriate aid official told AFP.

[HELWAA]

Inaalilaah ...ilaahy ha oo gargaaro masaakinta.

[Cisse Westlake]

"Somalia is a recgonized country where are the aid agenices?"


Right there in the tick of it!

Now go boil some of that recognition and feed it to those starving.


Ps...If you havent got the capacity nor the inteligence to recognize yourself FIRST, no amount of outside recognition is goin to make a difference. Take a look at Somaliland a perfect example of what people can achieve if they believe in themselves; the rising sun of the east!

she is a retard walle

[kambuli]

Xamari, quote " Somalia is a recgonized country where are the aid agenices?

Trust me walaal, there is AID pouring into that place 24/7...There is also money from us(people in diaspora) pouring into that place. But:

1. 99% is drained by Kat..It goes straight to Ethiopia and Kenya.

2. It is also looted by anyone who can grasp..Although it also goes to Kat.

[Cali_Gaab]

Kambuli, what's your stance on the TFg's involvment of foreign aid, mainly food and if the TFG's president bares the blame of the aid not reaching the people.

[LuvelyNaiima]

May allah shower his mercy on them!!..(Amin)