The top United Nations humanitarian official in Somalia has commended the drought relief and recovery efforts of the authorities in the northern state of Puntland while cautioning that the current humanitarian crisis is far from over.
"We took stock, together with [Puntland's] leadership, of the drought response as it has been so far, looking back to what has been a good year in terms of close cooperation and a very successful drought relief effort," the UN's Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Peter de Clercq, said in Puntland's capital, Garowe, on Saturday, in the wake of a series of meeting with officials, including the Federal Member State's President Abdiwali Mohamed Ali.
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