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HORN OF AFRICA / EMERGENCY FOOD
STORY: HORN OF AFRICA / EMERGENCY FOOD
TRT: 2.42
SOURCE: WFP
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 - 19 JULY 2011, DADAAB, NORTH EAST KENYA / 19 JULY 2011, ROME, ITALY
18 JULY 2011, IFO HOSPITAL, DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP, NORTH EAST KENYA
1. Various shots, severely malnourished children IFO hospital, Dadaab Refugee Camp
12 JULY 2011, MSF HOSPITAL, DAGAHALEY, DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP
2. Various shots, malnourished children
19 JULY 2011, ROME, ITALY
3. SOUNDBITE (English) David Kaatrud, Director of Emergencies, World Food Programme:
“We are facing an alarming humanitarian situation in central and southern Somalia right now. It is an area where we had limited access since last year. Amongst the effects of this is refugees streaming across the borders from the effects of drought, high food prices and violence and moving into the camps in Ethiopia and Kenya and amongst these groups we find a high level of malnutrition rates. Acute malnutrition among children are one in two in the camps in Ethiopia and one in three in the camps in Kenya.”
11 JULY 2011, DAGAHALEY CAMP, DADAAB NORTH EAST KENYA
4. Various shots, Abdullahi Ahmed family, spouse Faduma Shimey Noor and their five children arriving at the Dagahaley Camp
11 JULY 2011, DADAAB NORTH EAST KENYA
5. Various shots, Food distribution at WFP Warehouse where refugees receive cereals, pulses, CSB, oil, salt and sugar
6. Various shots, Abdullahi Ahmed’s children eating
7. SOUNDBITE (English) David Orr, Spokesperson, World Food Programme:
“They are tired, they are exhausted, on the way they were robbed by bandits. They had a really really bad time and now finally they have reached the reception center at one of the camps in Dadaab. They got food, they got maize, they got beans and flour from the World Food Programme.”
12 JULY 2011, DAGAHALEY CAMP, DADAAB NORTH EAST KENYA
8. More refugees arriving at Dagahaley Camp
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) today (20 July) said 11.3 million people are in need of food assistance due to drought in the Horn of Africa and declared a corporate emergency, elevating the crisis to the highest level of action, and indicating grave concern about the possibility of widespread loss of life.
Speaking from WFP’s headquarters in Rome, Director of Emergencies David Kaatrud said “we are facing an alarming humanitarian situation in central and southern Somalia right now.”
WFP’s announcement followed the declaration, earlier today, by the UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, that there was famine in the south of the country, in areas where there has been limited humanitarian access.
Among the options being considered by WFP are the airlift of high energy biscuits and highly nutritious supplementary foods for vulnerable children and pregnant or nursing mothers into strategic locations in southern Somalia, where they would be distributed to the hungry by international and national non-governmental organisations that are active in areas where the food needs of local populations are greatest.
WFP’s Spokesperson David Orr said Somalis on their way to the reception center at one of the camps in Dadaab have been “robbed by bandits.” At the center, he added, “they got food, they got maize, they got beans and flour from the World Food Programme.”
Plans to mobilise supplementary food products for children in response to the Horn of Africa crisis could make this the biggest ever operation to deliver these products that are highly effective in treating malnutrition in the first 1000 days of life.
WFP and other humanitarian agencies have been unable to work in southern Somalia since early 2010, and this has restricted the UN’s ability to address the nutritional needs of those living in this region especially children.
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