Millions in urgent need of food in Somalia: Aid agencies - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

say the humanitarian situation has deteriorated at an alarming rate with widespread crop failure and a decline in livestock productivity.Aid agencies working in Somalia warn that the country is enduring its third-driest long rains season since 1981.Deputy Director of Save The Children Somalia, Laura Jepson-Lay says, “Around half the population of Somalia are food insecure, of those 1.7m are acutely food insecure and indeed of urgent humanitarian assistance.

“If the funding does not come, the response doesn’t come and we will see loss of life, there is no question about it,” adds Laura Jepson-Lay. Save the Children says it has began trucking water and providing cash vouchers to those affected but more will be needed because the situation is expected to extend beyond Somalia.

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