Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
24 January 2008
Hundreds of internally displaced people living in a camp in Beledweyne town are having one of the worst livelihoods.
A refugee camp in Hiiraan's provincial capital namely Daryel which hosted about 675 people of internally put out of place people are facing appalling life.
The camp which is situated on the north side of Beledweyne town the majority of the families living in are starving and poor people.
The families are together with children, women, and elders some of them have missed there sights with the famine life they are in.
Shabelle regional reporter Omar Kiyow who visited in that camp has witnessed the horrible life of that IDPs saying they are on the point of to die for the awful living they are in at this moment in time.
"I have seen with my eyes families cooking the maize's seed and the watermelon's dried fruits they collected from the markets for lack of food" shabelle's Omar kiyow said
One of the displaced mothers with seven children interviewed by shabelle's English section told that she missed her mother and father in a mortar attack hit on there home in Howlwadaag district in Mogadishu that reasoned her to flee from the capital.
The chairman of Beledweyne civil society groups Mohamed Osman Tima Jili has appealed to help these people and he warned lacking any help to those people will cause a new cataclysm.
No urgent measures to help those people are still available.
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