Somalia: Health situation "dire"
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Channel: United Nations · 2009 · News & Politics
United Nations, New York, 16 July 2009 Donor assistance is urgently needed as the health situation in southern and central Somalia, including its violence-wracked capital, Mogadishu, continues to deteriorate, the United Nations humanitarian arm said today. Violence in the impoverished Horn of Africa nation has impeded access to essential and life-saving health services, as well as to clean water and sanitation, according to the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). A fresh wave of fighting, which broke out in Mogadishu in May, has driven 200,000 people from their homes, in addition to the more than 400,000 already displaced near the capital and along the Afgooye corridor, west of Mogadishu. News story: http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31491&Cr=somali&Cr1=
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