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“Drought conditions and extreme food shortages in the area at expected to last into 2012. “The prognosis is that it’s going to go downhill from here,” Bunker said.
“Resources are woefully inadequate,” OCHA emergency relief coordinator Valerie Amos said in an interview with Minnesota Public Radio last week. “We have an appeal that is at the moment only 40 percent met. Some of the key sectors that are needed to protect and save the lives of people in Somalia are not being addressed at all.”
Other U.N. agencies are painting a similarly dire picture of the food security situation in East Africa, but say they are assisting as best they can.”
“Desperate hunger is looming across the Horn of Africa and threatening the lives of millions who are struggling to survive in the face of rising food prices and conflict,” WFP executive director Josette Sheeran said in a release. “It is essential that we move quickly to break the destructive cycle of drought and hunger that forces farmers to sell their means of production as part of their survival strategy.”
Read more: New York Times
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