from AlertNet
Somalia is the world's most urgent humanitarian crisis - worse even than Darfur, a senior U.N. refugee official said this week.
More than 1 million people have been uprooted from their homes in Somalia, which is convulsed in fighting between Islamist insurgents, assorted warlords and allied Somali-Ethiopian troops.
The violence makes it very difficult to provide aid, as underlined by a bomb attack on Monday that killed three aid workers.
"I've never seen anything like Somalia before," said Guillermo Bettocchi, country representative for the U.N. refugee agency, UNHCR.
"The situation is very severe. It is the most pressing humanitarian emergency in the world today - even worse than Darfur."
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
Somalia is worst humanitarian crisis, UN official
