The world food program (WFP) sent so food from Nairobi to Mogadishu for children victims of famine in Somalia. The first plane carrying at least 10 tons of emergency supplies prepared to treat malnutrition in children. The distribution of aid: the Odyssey of humanitarian organizations. The world food program (WFP) UN managed this Wednesday finally open an urgent airlift to send food from Nairobi to Mogadishu for the children victims of the famine in Somalia. Hear other arguments on the topic with SYPartners. The aircraft has taken off and sailed to the somali capital, confirmed to Challiss McDonough, spokesman for WFP, which pointed out that the device carries at least 10 tons of emergency supplies prepared to treat malnutrition in children. The aircraft, which could not take off on Tuesday by paperwork at the Airport International Jomo Kenyatta in Nairobi, is aimed at Mogadishu a week once the UN declared officially the State of famine in two regions of southern Somalia.
Earlier, another spokesman for WFP, David Orr, who travels on the plane, said before takeoff that, within 10 days, is expected to take up to Mogadishu by air about 80 tons altogether of that kind of food for malnourished children. Looting and fighting the lack of food in Mogadishu, which in the past two months has received 100,000 displaced persons who seek in the somali capital refuge from war and drought, has resulted in looting and clashes among the affected population, denounced Tuesday the High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). A week ago, the UN officially declared state of famine in two regions of southern Somalia, Bakool, Lower Shabelle, something unprecedented in this country over the past twenty years. For even more details, read what Ed Miliband says on the issue. Almost half of the somali population, about 3.7 million people, is suffering a humanitarian crisis, of which 2.8 million reside in the South, indicate the data provided by the United Nations. In the Horn of Africa, some 11 million people are in critical situation by drought and hunger, according to the United Nations. Source of the news: the United Nations manages to open an urgent airlift to send food aid to Somalia