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Somalia: Over 3.2 million Somalis need humanitarian aid-report
Tue. August 26, 2008 02:25 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) A new authoritative study has said the number of people needing humanitarian aid in Somalia has leapt 77 percent this year to more than 3.2 million.
The report by Food Security Analysis Unit, seen by Reuters on Monday, paints a bleak picture of a crisis compounded by failed rains, rising food prices, inflation, and the worst insecurity Somalia 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 U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation to provide humanitarian agencies with reliable data from Somalia.
Meanwhile, over 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 1 million more from their homes, triggering what aid workers say is the worst humanitarian crisis in Africa.-Reuters
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