Somalia Drought Is 'Worst Humanitarian Crisis': U.N.

[UrbScotty]

Source: Huffington Post

The head of the U.N. refugee agency said Sunday that drought-ridden Somalia is the "worst humanitarian disaster" in the world after meeting with refugees who endured unspeakable hardship to reach the world's largest refugee camp.

The Kenyan camp, Dadaab, is overflowing with tens of thousands of newly arrived refugees forced into the camp by the parched landscape in the region where Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya meet. The World Food Program estimates that 10 million people already need humanitarian aid. The U.N. Children's Fund estimates that more than 2 million children are malnourished and in need of lifesaving action.

Antonio Guterres, the head of UNHCR who visited Dadaab on Sunday, appealed to the world to supply the "massive support" needed by thousands of refugees showing up at this camp every week. More than 380,000 refugees now live there.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/07/10/somalia-drought-worst-humanitarian-crisis-_n_894072.html

[Dark]

1. Question is: How do we handle it in a country that is basically ruled by a bunch of warlords? nt

[Kurska]

2. Short Answer: We can't

Between the warlords and the Islamist organizations foreign intervention of any kind will end poorly.

[valerief]

3. We usually cough up a few trillion and bomb the shit out of them.

Peace, you know?

[roomfullofmirrors]

4. The Horsemen are drawing nearer On the leather steeds they ride They have come to take your life

On through the dead of night
With the four Horsemen ride
Or choose your fate and die

[Uncle Joe]

5. Kicked and recommended.

Thanks for the thread, UrbScotty.

[Liberal_in_LA]

6. ..

[opihimoimoi]

7. The Famine Prevention Sub Committee should be here to see the horrors

when food runs out....

ASAP