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mahoka wrote:how about stop begging for food

GubanOgoJSL wrote:

mahoka wrote:how about stop begging for food

Exactly.

smooth wrote:
Looks like both of you spent the night in the marfish with a bottle together, which explains why your both frothing from the mouth in synch, the article is in opposition to what you claiming, its condemning the aid encouraging the WPF (that also feeds your people that dwell in those dead barren lands your from) to buy food from local farmers, its revolutionary, a first in Somalia, a generator of great revenue, something far beyond your peanut sized brains.

10 Facts About Hunger In Somalia

11 June 2015

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Here are ten facts that shed light on the hunger situation in Somalia. Please help the World Food Programme (WFP) raise awareness by sharing these important facts on Twitter.

1) Over two decades of conflict have left 1.1 million Somalis displaced in their own country, and almost a million as refugees in neighbouring countries. High food prices, combined with frequent droughts and floods have compounded poverty and continue to threaten livelihoods.  

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2) Somalia has an estimated population of 12 million. About 82 percent of Somalis are poor across multiple dimensions (health, education, standard of living). Overall, 73 percent of Somalis live on under US$2 per day. 

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3)  A famine in part of Southern Somalia in 2011 killed a quarter of a million people. This was the first time a famine had been declared in the Horn of Africa region in nearly thirty years. 

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4) Life expectancy in Somalia is 51 years old, up from 47 in 2001.

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5) Somalia has chronically high malnutrition rates; one in eight children under five is acutely malnourished. WFP’s nutrition programmes aim to treat and prevent acute malnutrition in young children, pregnant women and breastfeeding mothers. 

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6) Right now, close to one million people are in need of emergency food assistance. An additional two million people are struggling to meet their basic food needs and risk falling into a food security and nutrition crisis if they don’t receive sustained humanitarian assistance.   

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7) Somalia has one of the world’s lowest enrolment rates for primary school‐aged children - 42 percent of children are in school. Of those, only 36 percent are girls. WFP is providing school meals to relieve hunger and boost enrolment rates, particular of girls by providing take-home family rations for girls attending schools to incentivise parents. 

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8) Young people in Somalia (14 to 29-year-olds) make up 42 percent of the population. The unemployment rate for youth is 67 percent - one of the highest rates in the world. WFP’s Food-for-Training programmes provide vocational training for vulnerable people, equipping them with skills needed to enter the job market.

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9) Somalia is frequently ranked as one of the worst places to be a woman. In 2014, Somalia came bottom of the global rankings in terms of maternal health, child mortality, education and levels of women's income and political status.

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10) WFP started operating in Somalia in 1967, focusing on rural agricultural development and school feeding projects. The onset of conflict escalated humanitarian needs and WFP expanded its programmes. In 2015, WFP plans to provide food assistance for relief, nutrition, and social safety net for 1.9 million of the most vulnerable Somalis, despite the security challenges and risk involved. 

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sahal80 wrote:Lol these haters never stop trolling in every thread while their own relatives r tahriibin to xamar to escape sicirir bararka, lack of water and unemployment at 70 percent!!

Yes qaldaan families move to the central regionns and mogadishu bc not enough for them less than $500 from diaspora in hargeysa!

Their people look unhealthy...lack of veg and food

This is happening right now in hargeysa

http://www.wam.ae/en/siteSearch.html?ke ... mPage=home

http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates/1395284895069.html

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 24968.html

GIJaamac wrote:

sahal80 wrote:Lol these haters never stop trolling in every thread while their own relatives r tahriibin to xamar to escape sicirir bararka, lack of water and unemployment at 70 percent!!

Yes qaldaan families move to the central regionns and mogadishu bc not enough for them less than $500 from diaspora in hargeysa!

Their people look unhealthy...lack of veg and food

This is happening right now in hargeysa

http://www.wam.ae/en/siteSearch.html?ke ... mPage=home

http://www.wam.ae/en/news/emirates/1395284895069.html

http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/featur ... 24968.html

You can't really blame them. Low human capital+nomadic culture+ dry wasteland + no natural resources+unrecognized country = Hopeless failed nation.

However, an estimated 84,000 people are internally displaced (IDP)  within its borders and it shelters thousands of refugees from other countries - most notably at least 8,000 from Ethiopia and an influx of more than 9,000 from Yemen after the crisis there this year.

Since the famine, malnutrition has decreased, to some extent. Among children under five years old it has fallen from 18% in the 2011 Gu (the rainy season in Somalia, which is the primary cropping season and runs from April to June) to 13% in the 2015 Gu. However, the improvement has not been enough to lift hundreds of thousands of children out of the fear – and the reality – of hunger. The latest data shows that there are as many as 308,000 children who are acutely malnourished, including nearly 56,000 severely malnourished. The statistics translate into this simple fact: At the moment, one in every seven Somali children is malnourished.