AFP/ROBERTO refugees of Somali SCHMIDT, who had just crossed the border to the South of Ethiopia, met between two tents, waiting is invoked to obtain food in the refugee camps of Kobe, Tuesday (7/7/2011). The Government of Ethiopia and non-governmental organizations have been welcoming nearly 25,000 refugees in the camp since its inception three weeks ago.
NAIROBI - UN said there was famine in two regions in the South of Somalia, and tens of thousands of civilians have died of hunger. In the two months from now, an outbreak of deadly hunger will spread if donors do not lend a helping hand to help.
Mark Bowden, humanitarian coordinator for Somalia, United Nations say: the Bakool and Lower Shabelle struck by the worst outbreaks of famine in 20 years and could be extended to eight other areas.
The Organization of the United NATIONS require a 300 million. Plague as terrible as this occurred in 1992 when hundreds of thousands of Somalis have died from hunger, which prompted the intervention of the international peacekeepers. However, the army was eventually withdrawn after two Black Hawk helicopters were shot dead in 1993.
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Throughout Africa, more than 10 million people need assistance. "The sad state of affairs requires emergency measures," Bowden said.
The definition of an outbreak of famine is a nickname two adults and four children in every 10,000 people each day the death due to hunger and one-third of children suffer from acute malnutrition. In some parts of Somalia, six people were killed every day and more than half of the children suffer from acute malnutrition.
The Cause,...(for more information, read the daily newspaper Kompas, Saturday, July 21, 2011, p. 10).
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