Somaliland Faces Food
Crisis
An
Official of the Ministry of Agriculture in Somaliland has warned
that at least half of the country’s population of three million
people faces food shortages following several months of drought.
The director-general of the Ministry of Agriculture, Abdulkadir
Jibril Tukale, said that poor rainfall in 2009 had killed
livestock and damaged harvests in the self-declared republic.
Reports by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit of the
Food and Agriculture Organization found at least 386,000 people
in Somaliland faced an acute food and livelihood crisis between
July and December 2009.
Food security situation in the north-west of the country has
been said to continue to deteriorate.
Panos/Qasim/Yinka
