The number of people in Somalia in need of emergency food aid is likely to rise to about 3.5m in the coming months, the United Nations has warned.
Mark Bowden, the UN's humanitarian co-ordinator for the region, says the food crisis is dramatically worsening.
Somalia faces a worse situation than Darfur, Mr Bowden says.
Contributing to the crisis are fighting between rival militias, successive droughts, sharply rising food prices and a collapse of the Somali currency.
Mr Bowden says that during the course of the next three months the number of people needing emergency food relief will climb by about one million from the current 2.5m.
Aid agencies trying to get food into Somalia face extreme difficulties.
The task is made more difficult because fighting and violence has displaced a million Somalis from their homes.
Mark Bowden says Somalia has become one of the world's most challenging humanitarian crises.
He fears that there is now a sense of fatalism about what is happening to the country.
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All this thanks US. They bombed Somalia under the excuse of "hunting qaeda members", a convenient excuse to bomb any muslim nation at anytime. And they also helped Ethiopia invade somalia. All these deaths and suffering is on the heads of american people, ignorance is not an excuse and silence is accomplice....
Reminds me of Iraq a country which is training terrorists a country which is in peace...Ethiopia saying that it is a danger decides to invade and install a puppet regime in Mogadishu...But the Islamic Courts control most of Somalia....
It is funny how they ran their month on Sudan and Zimbabwe , while they turn around and create a crisis which is worse than Darfur, and remain silent about it. In effect they use Darfur to cover-up the atrocious crimes that is being committed in Somalia by the American paid Ethiopian Dictator and Somalia Warlords.
Such hypocrisy is never heard of.
Paradise is surround by hardship, may those innocent Muslims enter Jannah with ease and by the Mercy of Allah.
70:28 Lo! the doom of their Lord is that before which none can feel secure
It is funny how they ran their month on Sudan and Zimbabwe , while they turn around and create a crisis which is worse than Darfur, and remain silent about it. In effect they use Darfur to cover-up the atrocious crimes that is being committed in Somalia by the American paid Ethiopian Dictator and Somalia Warlords.
Such hypocrisy is never heard of.
Paradise is surround by hardship, may those innocent Muslims enter Jannah with ease and by the Mercy of Allah.
That's the hypocrisy of the west, the two face kuffars against whom Allah warns us that they will never be our friends nor accept us their own till we abandon our faith and follow their ways....to hell
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