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Somalia: Muslim nations urged to step up aid to war-torn Somalia
Fri. August 29, 2008 12:54 am.- By Bonny Apunyu. -
(SomaliNet) The international community, in particular Muslim nations were on Thursday urged by the United Nations Special Humanitarian Envoy to step up aid to war-torn Somalia, which is facing a growing humanitarian emergency.
Abdul Aziz Arukkban said: “Today, as we are about to enter the Holy month of Ramadan, I urge the international community, and in particular the global Muslim community, to exercise their moral and religious duty in support of the Somali people”.
Meanwhile, much of Somalia, particularly the South Central region, is in the throes of a food crisis brought on by a brutal insurgency, drought and rising food prices.
The latest report by the UN's Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU), released Tuesday, said the number of people in urgent need of food and other humanitarian assistance has reached 3.2 million, an increase of 77 per cent from beginning of the year.
The figure represents 43 per cent of the Somali population.
Arukkban on Wednesday travelled to South Central Somalia, where the food crisis is at its worst, and also visited the Dabaab refugee camp complex in neighbouring Kenya, which hosts over 200,000 Somali refugees.
Somalia has been plagued by chaos and clan-based civil war since dictator Mohamed Siad Barre was toppled in 1991. –M&C
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