Gabbal Posted July 25, 2011 Shabab leaders in Gedo have broken with Godane/Dheere to allow foreign aid to stream in to Shabab-held territory in the region a day after Dheere reiterated foreign aid is not allowed in Shabab territory: Food aid distributed in rebel-run Somalia (AFP) – 22 hours ago NAIROBI — The International Committee of the Red Cross said Sunday it had distributed 400 tonnes of food aid in rebel-controlled southern Somalia, which has been hit by a devastating drought. "The ICRC on Saturday distributed 400 tonnes of food aid in Gedo province for 4,000 families or about 24,000 people," ICRC spokesman Yves Van Loo told AFP in Nairobi. "The distribution look place in the Bardera district and passed without incident, with the knowledge of the authorities and the recipients," he added. It is the first ICRC-led food drop directly to locals in zones under the control of the Shebab insurgents since 2009, the spokesman added. Each family was due to get about 100 kilogrames of food, including 20 litres of oil, more than 20 kilos of rice, and beans. Further food distributions of the same kind will take place in the coming days, the spokesman said. http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gzbnXX1HN1HtRWdqcKEcCmv0VxIA?docId=CNG.ea533d48f15f37d2fc7eb24ddb07ad35.b01 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Gabbal Posted July 25, 2011 This comes while Australian foreign minister and recent prime minister Kevin Rudd tours famine refugees in TFG-controlled territory in the Gedo region Aust provides extra $20m famine aid July 25, 2011 - 8:24AM AAP Dolo, Somalia • Australia will provide an additional $20 million emergency humanitarian support for the 11.6 million people affected by famine in the Horn of Africa. That takes Australia's total commitment to the crisis to more than $80 million. Foreign Minister Kevin Rudd on Sunday visited the Gedo region in southern Somalia, one of the worst affected areas in the crisis "There are more than half a million Somalis in the refugee camps, and 50,000 arrived last month alone with nearly half of the children under five starving," he said in a statement. Mr Rudd, who is travelling with World Food Program (WFP) executive director Josette Sheeran, saw first hand the difficulty in delivering aid to the region. He praised WFP and other humanitarian agencies working in difficult conditions, saying operations in Somalia were among the highest risk in the world. "Tragically, since 2008, 14 WFP relief workers have been killed there," he said. Mr Rudd said the additional Australian support would help the WFP scale up its operations to assist an additional 2.2 million people in the previously inaccessible south of the country. The UN estimates total humanitarian needs to respond to this crisis to be around $US1.8 billion ($A1.7 billion), of which only one half is funded now. © 2011 AAP http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-national/aust-provides-extra-20m-famine-aid-20110725-1hvxr.html Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nabad_dadaye Posted July 26, 2011 qofka bini aadamnimo eey ku danbeyso iskaba daaye qof muslim ah ma dhahayo shacab xaalkoodu sidan yahay yaan loo gargaarin Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
