Somalia: concern over worsening humanitarian situation

from ICRC via ReliefWeb

While the media's attention has been riveted on other crises in Africain recent weeks, the humanitarian situation in Somaliahas continued to deteriorate alarmingly. The protracted armed conflict has been intensified by waves of heavy fighting, not only in the capital city of Mogadishubut also elsewhere in the country. Hundreds of thousands of people have been displaced. Their situation has been exacerbated by a chronic lack of rainfall. The cost of living has risen so steeply that many people cannot afford to buy food and other essential items.

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