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Top Story: At least 3 million in Somalia in need of aid
At least three million people in Somalia need humanitarian aid and the country is threatened with famine, the U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said on Wednesday.
The United Nations said in September more than a million people in the war-ravaged Horn of Africa country were struggling to meet daily nutritional needs.
“Over three million Somalis are in need of humanitarian assistance and unfortunately that number is growing. I urge donors to step up contributions to avert another famine in Somalia,” Ban said during a visit to the Somali capital on Wednesday.
In August, the U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Somalia Philippe Lazzarini said rapidly rising malnutrition and food shortages resembled the warning signs that preceded a 2011 famine in which about 260,000 people died.
A month earlier, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Somalia said agencies were unable to meet the needs of 350,000 people who had fled to Mogadishu because they were hindered by a shortage of funds and by violence.
Al Qaeda-allied al Shabaab ruled most of the southern region of Somalia from 2006 until 2011, when African troops marched into the capital.
http://www.ericsonreport.com/at-least-3-million-in-somalia-in-need-of-aid-reuters/
The problem with humanitarian aid is that it only addresses parts of the problem. Feed people, sure, but what about the inevitable waste produced by digestion? And the clean water to bathe in? Where’s the plumbing? Did we forget that plumbing and sanitation are the only technologies civilization actually require?