FEWS NET Emergency Alert for Somalia, published Dec 21 2007
Somalia remains on emergency alert.
FEWS NET and Somalia’s Food Security Analysis Unit (FSAU) will issue a new joint alert statement in early January, highlighting the following key points:
Increasing instability in Mogadishuand surrounding areas resulted in the displacement of an
additional 70,000 people this month, bringing the total estimated number of IDPs fleeing Mogadishu since February 2007 to 670,000.
Continued displacement will lead to further deteriorations of the humanitarian situation, especially in the Shabelle and central regions, where host communities are already severely stressed,due topoor deyr(October to December)production,
deteriorating rangeland conditions, rapidly increasing cereal prices and increasing insecurity.
Deyr
crop establishment in the south is normal in Juba, Bay, Gedo and the Shabelle regions (except
for coastal rain-fed areas).
An African Union-U.N. soldier stands in front of an old African Union APC during a patrol in West Darfur in El-Geneina February 19, 2008. Sudan on Monday bombed an emptied refugee ...
