Monday, August 25, 2008
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - The number of people needing humanitarian aid in Somalia has leapt 77 percent this year to more than 3.2 million, an authoritative new study has shown.
The report by Food Security Analysis Unit, seen by Reuters on Monday, paints a bleak picture of a crisis compounded by failed rains, rising food prices, inflation, and the worst insecurity in the Horn of Africa nation since the early 1990s.
The Food Security Analysis Unit is a body set up by the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organisation. (Editing by Charles Dick)