The United Nations organization for Agriculture and feeding (FAO) today urged the international community of 120 million dollars to provide agricultural aid to the serious SEQU to live the Horn of Africa.
In a note, the FAO warned that hunger has killed tens of thousands of people in Somalia "and the situation will worsen unless urgent action is,
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"Hundreds of people die every day unless we act now morirn many more. This is a human tragedy of enormous dimensions. We need to increase investments and interventions to help farmers and their families to protect their crops and continue to produce food, "said director of FAO, Jacques Diouf.
To address the crisis in Regina, the FAO called for 70 million,
eve isk, dollars and 50 million for Somalia to Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti and Uganda, yaadi not forget the humanitarian crisis in South ny in Repblica of Sudn South who have already applied for 37 million dollars.
In particular, the 70 million dollars in Somalia to finance servirn cash for work programs, input supply and veterinary services agrcolas emergency livestock.
Segna FAO data, the number of Somalis,
sto credits, needing aid has increased from 2.4 million to 3.7 million in the last six months.
In total, 12 million people in the Horn of Africa urgently need help.
The UN body to deal with the record that emergency international est a gathering scheduled in Rome on July 25 upcoming yaadi Diouf that just before traveling to Nairobi francs with the Minister of Agriculture, Bruno Le Maire, and the director of the World Food Programme (WFP), Josette Sheeran.
The FAO says she has been helping farmers and ranchers with inputs agrcolas Somalis and veterinary services, but several seasons sequa caused by successive poor rains have reduced the production and agrcola livestock assets destroyed.
The current crisis affecting the entire Horn of Africa, including Kenya and northern parts of southern Ethiopia, Djibouti and Regina Karamoja in Uganda, where large areas classified estn state of emergency humanitarian.
In another statement, the World Food Programme (WFP) the UN raises the rank of "high level SHARE ms" humanitarian emergency that has caused the drying out in the Horn of Africa and expresses " preocupacin the possibility of extending the losses of lives. "
Among options deck WFP to assist the affected population in the Horn of Africa shows the breakdown by strategically avin in parts of southern Somalia cookie energticas and highly nutritious food supplements, especially for children and pregnant or lactating.
"WFP with the help of many has been increasing its acciny acting on the effects of this dry for more than 6 months," Sheeran seal on the note.
"His depth and extension, together with the inability of humanitarian agencies to access all the affected areas, has raised this to the category of emergency food and nutrition with all the letters, which requires an increase rapids the SHARE, "AADE.
WFP seal the Declaration of famine in two southern regions of Somalia made today by the UN to allow SHARE increase in this part of Africa.
"WFP is willing to negotiate with comits against dry to ensure proper safety conditions for our team for the food and nutritional supplements reach the more vulnerable, especially those not you, "said Sheeran.