Nairobi — The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) appealed today for urgent contributions to avoid breaks in its supply line of food assistance to Somalia because of forecasts of crop failure.
The growing need for food assistance follows a warning in June by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization's Food Security Analysis Unit Somalia of a crop failure or below average production in July to August in much of southern and central Somalia because of poor rainfall.
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