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    UN fears dramatic rise in Somalia famine refugees

    By FRANK JORDANS - Associated Press | AP – Tue, Aug 9, 2011
    GENEVA (AP) — The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a U.N. aid official said Tuesday.

    The United Nations estimates that tens of thousands of people have died from malnutrition in Somalia in recent months, and over 11 million people across East Africa need food aid because of a long-running drought.

    The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization's representative in Kenya warned that the situation could become "simply unbearable" in the coming weeks if Somalis continue to abandon their homes in south and central parts of the country in search of food.

    Already thousands have fled toward the Somali capital of Mogadishu and across the borders to Kenya and Ethiopia, where refugee camps are straining under the pressure of new arrivals.

    "The possibility is basically having everybody who lives in that area moving out, which would be a disaster," said Luca Alinovi, adding that transportation costs have doubled in recent months — evidence that there is growing pressure to leave.

    Alinovi said FAO was working to prevent Somalis from abandoning their drought-hit farms by paying them cash for small jobs, thus allowing people to remain. Once people leave their farms, they become dependent on aid for a very long time, he said.

    Cash payments have been controversial in Somalia, because of the possibility that money might end up in the hands of militant groups like al-Shabab, who are fighting the weak central government in Mogadishu.

    "It is a risk that can be handled," Alinovi said of the cash payments, warning that the alternative could be a sharp rise in the number fleeing. "If this becomes a massive number, like hundreds of thousands of people moving out, then this simple problem will be very difficult to bear."

    The World Health Organization, meanwhile, warned that diseases such as measles and cholera are circulating among Somali refugees, many of whom are too weak to survive the diseases.

     

    91 comments

    • JETHRO
      JETHRO  •  9 mths ago
      HEY YAHOO, RUETERS, AND THE AP--- SEE IF YOU CAN GRASP THE REALITY OF THIS.... WE DONT GIVE A #$%$ ABOUT SOMALIA... F' EM! I HOPE THEY ALL FREAKIN STARVE AND IF IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT IT WOULDNT BE SOON ENOUGH!
      • msds
        msds 9 mths ago
        classy
      • beezulbubz
        beezulbubz 9 mths ago
        Jethro...of course. Yeah 8 people agree, seems Americans have no conscious left, its been replaced by a sickening contempt for anyone but ourselves.
      • fricknfarm
        fricknfarm 9 mths ago
        SIXTEEN thumbs up for him, thumbs down for you, I'd say at a 100% approval for him, and a 100% DISAPPROVAL for you. Now make sure you hurry and give him a thumbs down. same advice for you I give others. DO SOMETHING if you think they should be helped...go there, bring money save lives. Don't just sit there pounding keys and telling others how they should feel or that they are lacking. HYPOCRITE!!! TYPICAL LIBERAL, YOU DON'T FOOL MANY PEOPLE ANYMORE.
    • T
      T  •  9 mths ago
      Forget about these people, get out of the UN. Take care of our own people here in the US.
      Deport all illegals and close the borders.
    • Bill
      Bill  •  9 mths ago
      don't send cash send birth control
    • Michele
      Michele  •  9 mths ago
      after they killed our soilders and hacked them up and draged theybehind a car do we really care? freaking no..they have more kids then they can feed..let them get food from the drug gangs or pirates
      • Christopher L
        Christopher L 9 mths ago
        And don't forget the ethnic cleansing of all the white farmers that were feeding them.
      • C
        C 9 mths ago
        my same thoughts - let other people of the world fill our void. OR the Pirates that have stolen more than that
    • Ed
      Ed  •  9 mths ago
      We've been feeding them for generations and all we get are more starving people who insist on living in the desert.
    • Christopher L
      Christopher L  •  9 mths ago
      And yet their fertility rate is 4th in the world with 6.44 children to each woman. The birth rate is 7th in the world and their population growth is 16th.
    • rick
      rick  •  9 mths ago
      I wonder why Saudia Arabia isn't stepping up to help their Moslem brothers and sisters?
    • Pope
      Pope  •  9 mths ago
      So sad to see suffering in Somalia. Why don't we try an U.N. food program... oh wait, we did that before. Don't worry, I am sure Egypt is all over this situation, now that they are liberated.
    • Clown
      Clown  •  9 mths ago
      They dragged the bodies of our dead soldiers through the dirt and now they want money. Sorry, ask your fellow muzzies for some.
      • beezulbubz
        beezulbubz 9 mths ago
        I don't remember this happening..
      • fricknfarm
        fricknfarm 9 mths ago
        Beezulbubz don't be a fool all you need to do is g00gle Blackhawk somalia.WHAT A JERK, what are you, 12?
    • A Yahoo! User  •  9 mths ago
      Where's Oprah and Bill Cosby in all of this? The have HUGE bank accounts and could easily help their descendants.
      • Mike
        Mike 9 mths ago
        are you kiddin'? The Mooch, Michelle O'Bama JUST returned from a taxpayer funded trip to Africa...Moo-chelle took the kids, Granny and even a handfull of cousins....but somehow it wasn't all that important for her to visit Somalia......but I understand Mrs. Joe-WHO Biden is taking the plane and headed there for HER trip of the month ENTITLEMENT.
      • beezulbubz
        beezulbubz 9 mths ago
        Im sure you donate all the time to help your European decendants. This site has become unbarebly racist and depraved, grow up kiddies, or grow a soul..
      • Mike
        Mike 9 mths ago
        Beezulbubz,
        We have been donating to Somalia for 40+ YEARS! They keep on OVER BREEDING!
        This one year, WE CAN NOT HELP! Don't try to make me feel bad....Until we get our own house in order, we can NO LONGER HELP OTHERS!
        It is kind of STUIPID to cut down the money tree...and then ask for money! We need to CUT $4 TRILLION from our budget...after we do that...come beg money form us!
    • SPEEDY, FASTEST CAT ALIVE ...
      SPEEDY, FASTEST CAT ALIVE ...  •  9 mths ago
      My "Give a Sh34 about Somalia Button" is broke again!
      • beezulbubz
        beezulbubz 9 mths ago
        Yeah who cares about dying kids, hope yours get sick, and maybe then you will grow a fricken conscious.
      • fricknfarm
        fricknfarm 9 mths ago
        Beezulbub, get on that plane with cash, they are WAITING and dying even as you type...hurry save those kids show just how much you CARE!!!
    • michael
      michael  •  9 mths ago
      Keep our money in the USA to feed and care for our starving and needy. We need to save America first.
    • WIB
      WIB  •  9 mths ago
      might i suggest a supply of food for every vasectomy or tubal ligation.
    • Reaper 2/1
      Reaper 2/1  •  9 mths ago
      Just ask the pirates for money
    • Cabo San Dan
      Cabo San Dan  •  9 mths ago
      we need to continue obamas plan, of sending money we do not have to countries that hate us, and want our demise
    • WIB
      WIB  •  9 mths ago
      it is hard to send food to Somalia because it is usually stolen by war lords, crooked leaders, or pirates.
    • william
      william  •  9 mths ago
      Famine is nature's way of saying "You're overpopulating your environment. Slow down on the breeding for a while."
    • dugndeep
      dugndeep  •  9 mths ago
      I am by no means starving just yet but can't afford to help anybody else out either.All I can tell them is to pray to God and maybe your prayers will be heard.
    • Phil
      Phil  •  9 mths ago
      How many decades, how many million, biliions, if not trillions, have been spent there and these people are still starving in mud huts. Sorry, no more aid, just let evolution run it's course and send these savages into oblivion.
    • Jet
      Jet  •  9 mths ago
      Of course the numbers are gonna rise dramatically. Word has spread like wildfire that the US is sending $105 million worth of free food. And there's nothing that those third world retards like more than getting fed on someone else's dime.

      The retards can't feed themselves but are continuing to pop out babies like a Dugger and still have time to hijack pasing ships. At what point in time should someone say "enough is enough"?

      Well I think that time has come and gone. But what do I matter? It's just my fckin tax money that they're sending over there.
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