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Internally displaced persons camp in Mogadishu, Somalia. Portrait of a woman preparing peanuts to sell in town. ICRC B Schaeffer
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Background

•  Somalia troubles

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Somalia: Latest reports from the International Committee of the Red Cross

• Expansion of aid programmes needed
• Hundreds of thousands of Somalis face life-threatening food and water shortages.
• Armed conflict escalating
• Severe droughts
• High inflation in Somalia and on world markets for essentials, food, fuel etc
  

  • Family-food parcel costs up by 150% since 2006

• People finding it harder to get
  

  • Food
  • Water
  • Shelter
  • Medical Attention

• Fighting intense in Mogadishu (capital city) and elsewhere
• Hundreds of thousands of people living in the open or in makeshift camps having been forced to leave their homes due to fighting.
• Food shortages are severe and livestock are weakening as pasture land dried up.

Red Cross/Red Crescent Action

• Four months worth of dry-food rations to 435,000 people
• Some 150,000 people will receive essential household items such as blankets, shelter materials and kitchen sets
• Half a million (470,000) people around the country given water.
• Quarter of a million (268,000) people given tents, tarpaulins or other things with which to make emergency basic shelters for themselves.
• 100,000 given food.
• 200,000 served by healthcare services

[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]

[ Any views expressed in this article are those of the writer and not of Reuters. ]

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