Belfast Telegraph
Monday, January 23, 2012
Mark Bowden, the UN's chief aid representative in Somalia, says that
during the past year the Horn of Africa famine crisis has claimed "tens
of thousands of lives" in Somalia alone.Mr Bowden estimates that the
famine will last for at least another six or seven months and during
that time 250,000 Somalis will remain at severe risk of starvation.
The
over-stretched African Union is doing what it can, but it is neither
properly equipped nor trained to manage the kind of relief effort
required.
Only the United Nations is capable of mounting an operation on the scale required.