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Aid group: Somalia in worst crisis in 10 years
from Oregon Live

By MALKHADIR M. MUHUMED

NAIROBI, Kenya — Somalia is facing its worst humanitarian crisis in a
decade, and the situation is deteriorating, an international aid
agency said Wednesday.

Worsening armed conflict, rising global prices of food and fuel, and
severe drought in central Somalia are the main factors contributing to
the humanitarian crisis in the Horn of Africa nation, said Pascal
Hundt, head of the International Red Cross' delegation for Somalia.

"When you put all these factors together this is explaining why we are
in front of an acute humanitarian crisis in Somalia," Hundt told
journalists in the capital of neighboring Kenya, where the ICRC bases
the operation because of insecurity in Somalia. "We have no reason to
be optimistic in the short term."