Médecins Sans Frontières today calls on international aid agencies to stop glossing over the reality of the spreading famine in Somalia and acknowledge that millions of people in the worst affected regions are beyond their reach.
Reporting from Mogadishu, Al Jazeera's Nazanine Moshiri says the World Food Program, which is supplying food assistance in Somalia, acknowledges they may not be able to engineer an adequate response to the rapidly escalating crisis, which now impacts 4 million Somalis, 750,000 of whom are in danger of imminent death within the next few months.
While the UN says $1 billion is needed, some experts on the ground say at this point no amount of money can adequately address the many facets of this crisis. There are also huge shortages of resources for sanitation, water, medical supplies and emergency nutritional assistance and not enough time and capacity for delivery of services.
Watch Moshiri's report here.
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