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U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, urged the world’s donors to give immediate help to Somalia facing deadly famine
U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, urged the world’s donors to give immediate help to Somalia facing deadly famine. She described the situation as a gross failure of the international community to address the grave issue. She said that the entire Horn of Africa is facing the severest famine, where more than a quarter of a million people died of famine in 2011.
Speaking at a meeting with the Somalian President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, the U.S. Ambassador said that while a famine had been averted the last time around, efforts to fight poverty should be ramped up now in order to avoid such an incident in March-April this year.
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Tens of thousands of people are thought to have already died in the drought that also affected parts of neighbouring Ethiopia and Kenya. More than half a million children under the age of 5 in Somalia alone have severe acute malnutrition, according to the U.N. children’s agency. Millions of livestock essential to families’ health and wealth have also died. The latest data assessment released last year found that Somalia had not met the benchmarks for a formal famine declaration. The U.N. and U.S. have made clear that the limited humanitarian aid has only delayed the worst.
