Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu)
Abdinasir Mohamed Guled
27 June 2008
Hundreds of internally displaced refugees living in Somali capital are currently facing one of the pits they ever faced.
These refugees living in a IDPs camp called "Barwaqo" in Taleh area of Hodan district west of Mogadishu have expressed additional concern over the sore living they are facing at the moment.
The families are together with children, women, and elders some of them have missed there sights with the famine life they are in.
Shabelle Reporters visited in that camp have witnessed the horrible life of those IDPs saying they are on the point of dying 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 Bashir Khalif Ghani said
One of the displaced mothers with seven children interviewed by Shabelle's English service told that she missed her old mother and father in a mortar attack hit on there home in Howlwadaag district in Mogadishu that reasoned her to flee from there.
They called for the aid organization to help out them to escape the insensitive life they are in.
No urgent measures to help those people are still available.
"Since we left our homes in the capital, we have not been given any assistance from either the international aid agencies or local ones," said Halima Muse 52 yrs mother in Barwaqo. "We get help from local people who give us what they can. We at least get one meal a day most of the week."
Calls for increased assistance for Somalia's IDPs have been growing since the food crisis took hold this year. But the calls seem to have fallen on deaf ears.
This may be due to the competing emergencies in Darfur, Burma and China as well as the difficulties of bringing aid in to Somalia while pirates operate along its coastline and the security situation within the country remains poor.
This news was jointly cooperated by Shabelle Media Network and Peace line foundation.
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