FOOD CRISES LOOMS IN SOMALILAND
Jan 12th, 2010 by admin
At least half of Somaliland’s population of three million people face food shortages following several months of drought. The director-general of the Ministry of Agriculture, Abdulkadir Jibril Tukale, told IRIN News 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. They say food security situation in the north-west of the country has continued to deteriorate.
