Somalia: Food Distribution Under Way West of Mogadishu

Nairobi — The UN World Food Programme (WFP) has started distributing food to civilians, who fled violence in Mogadishu and are living in the area around Afgoye town, about 390km west of the Somali capital, a spokesperson said.

The food distribution, which began on 6 August, follows a health assessment by Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) among the internally displaced people (IDPs), which indicated a global malnutrition rate of 21.5 percent among children under the age of five and a severe acute malnutrition rate of 3 percent - a nutritional emergency, according to the World Health Organization (WHO).

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