Somali Aid In Danger
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, 16 April 2009 - Daily Briefing by the Office of the Spokesperson for the Secretary General. The World Food Programme (WFP) is concerned that people in Somalia will go hungry if the Sea Horse vessel is not quickly released or replaced by another vessel. The Sea Horse -- hijacked by pirates on 14 April-- was due to load more than 7000 metric tons of food for Somalia. After the hijacking of the Maersk Alabama last week en route to Mombassa, WFP also stresses that the Kenyan port is essential to its operations in Somalia and elsewhere in eastern and central Africa. More than 500,000 metric tons of WFP food arrived in Mombasa in 2008. If food assistance cannot arrive through Mombasa for Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, southern Sudan and the eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, millions of people will go hungry and the already high malnutrition rates will rise, according to WFP.
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