SOMALIA: Aid agencies struggle to access communities as drought looms
Photo: Keishamaza Rukikaire/IRINMany drought-affected communities live in areas controlled by armed groupsGAROWE/GALKAYO/NAIROBI, 3 February 2011 (IRIN) – As drought threatens Somalia once more, humanitarians are becoming increasingly concerned about how they will reach food insecure communities living in areas controlled by armed groups. An estimated 2.4 million Somalis require emergency humanitarian assistance as a result of civil unrest and food insecurity, according to the UN Food Security and Analysis Unit-Somalia. The failure of the short rains (October-December 2010) means over the coming months that that number could increase. “Somalia is teetering on the brink of a much larger…
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