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Arab Health Ministers discuss the situation in Somalia


</TD></TR><TR><TD></TD></TR><TR><TD class=bbb>الصحة 28/09/2011 05:28:00 م
Health 28/09/2011 05:28:00 PM

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Cairo - 28-9 (KUNA) - Arab League announced that it decided to convene an emergency meeting of the Executive Office of the Council of Arab Ministers of Health on Saturday at the invitation of the President of the Saudi Minister of Health Abdullah Al-Rabiah.

وذكرت الأمين العام المساعد للشؤون الاجتماعية بالجامعة العربية السفيرة سيما بحوث في تصريح للصحافيين اليوم أن الاجتماع سيناقش بندا واحدا هو تطورات الأوضاع الصحية في الأراضي الصومالية في ضوء كارثة الجفاف والمجاعة التي تعانيها الصومال والجهود العربية المتواصلة لتقديم المساعدات الانسانية والصحية والاغاثية للشعب الصومالي.​

The Assistant Secretary-General for Social Affairs of the Arab League Ambassador especially research in a statement to reporters today that the meeting will discuss a single item is the development of the health situation in the Somali territories in the light of the disastrous drought and famine experienced by Somalia and the Arab efforts in continuing to provide humanitarian aid, health and relief to the Somali people.

وأضافت ان المكتب التنفيذي يضم السعودية رئيسا وعضوية قطر وليبيا والعراق وسوريا والسودان
ومصر وفلسطين ولبنان اضافة الى الأمانة العامة للجامعة العربية.​

It added that the Executive Office includes Saudi Arabia, chairman, Qatar, Libya, Iraq, Syria, Sudan, Egypt, Palestine and Lebanon in addition to the General Secretariat of the Arab League.

وكان الربيعة طرح عندما كان رئيسا للمكتب التنفيذي في دورته السابقة مبادرة ايجابية من خلال دعوته لاجتماع عاجل للمكتب التنفيذي لوزراء الصحة العرب في الرياض قبل عامين لوضع استراتيجية عربية لمواجهة الأوبئة في المنطقة وذلك عند انتشار وباء انفلونزا الخنازير.​

Rabiah was thrown when he was head of the Office of the Executive Board at its previous positive initiative by calling for an urgent meeting of the Executive Bureau of Arab Health Ministers in Riyadh two years ago to develop an Arab strategy to face the epidemics in the region, when the spread of an epidemic of swine flu.​

وهذا يؤشر الى امكانية توصل المكتب التنفيذي الى مبادرة أو خطة عربية للتعامل مع الأوضاع الصحية المتردية في الأراضى الصومالية.(النهاية) س م / م ف م / ط م ا كونا281728 جمت سبت 11​

This indicates the possibility of reaching the Executive Office of the initiative or an Arab plan to deal with the deteriorating health situation in the Somali territory. (End) Q M / P M / A CT KUNA 281728 GMT Sat 11


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Re: SOMALIA - UN:Time for immediate action on famine - Tens of thousands of Somalis have already died and more than 3.2 million others are on the brink of starvation

Since January, an estimated 395,532 children have been admitted for treatment of acute
malnutrition through outpatient therapeutic programmes, stabilization centres and targeted supplementary
feeding programmes throughout the country, including 120,467 SAM cases and 275,065 MAM cases. These
figures cover the period up to September as data is currently being gathered for October. Some 450,000
children are malnourished, of whom 190,000 suffer from severe acute malnutrition.

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http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/OCHA HoA Situation Report No. 21.pdf Page 6

 

[Ronan Kelly]

Re: SOMALIA - UN:Time for immediate action on famine - Tens of thousands of Somalis have already died and more than 3.2 million others are on the brink of starvation

Somalia ? Famine & Drought
Situation Report No. 23
22 November 2011

Situation Overview
On 18 November, the Somalia Food Security
and Nutrition Analysis Unit (FSNAU) and Famine
Early Warning Systems Network (FEWS NET)
announced that three areas of Somalia (Bay,
Bakool and Lower Shabelle) have been
downgraded from famine to emergency due in
large part to substantial humanitarian assistance
which has mitigated the most extreme food
deficits and reduced mortality levels. The number
of people facing imminent starvation has been
reduced from 750,000 to 250,000. However,
these improvements will only be sustained if the
current level of assistance continues, and areas
may fall back into famine if humanitarian
activities are interrupted or reduced.
Famine persists in parts of Middle Shabelle
region and in the areas hosting internally
displaced persons (IDPs) in Mogadishu and
along the Afgooye corridor. Malnutrition and
mortality rates in many parts of southern Somalia
continue to be the highest in the world and the
worst in Somalia since the 1991/92 Famine.
Despite continued scaling up of humanitarian
operations, the situation is expected to worsen
due to continued limitations in access, and the
crisis is likely to continue well into 2012.
The humanitarian community is particularly
concerned about areas still in famine and areas
where military action is ongoing. Obstacles to
access have contributed to the persisting famine in the Afgooye corridor and in Middle Shabelle region, but it
is unclear why famine persists amongst IDP communities in Mogadishu, where access is relatively good.
Military activity in Lower Juba and Gedo is affecting humanitarian operations, worsening the crisis in the two
regions.

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According to FSNAU, four million people remain food insecure throughout the country, including
three million people in southern Somalia.
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http://reliefweb.int/sites/reliefweb.int/files/resources/OCHA Somalia Situation Report No. 23.pdf

 

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Re: SOMALIA - UN:Time for immediate action on famine - Tens of thousands of Somalis have already died and more than 3.2 million others are on the brink of starvation



15 January 2012 Last updated at 12:03 ET

The UN in Somalia says tens of thousands of people will have died of starvation by the time the famine in the Horn of Africa ends.

The food crisis was declared in Somalia six months ago and levels of need are expected to remain high until July or August.

UN aid chief in Somalia, Mark Bowden, told the BBC malnutrition rates there were the highest in the world.

He said a quarter of a million Somalis were still suffering from the famine.

"We know that tens of thousands of people will have died over the last year," Mr Bowden, said, describing the rates of malnutrition as "amazingly high".

"Children will have suffered the most, malnutrition rates in Somalia were the highest in the world, and I think the highest recorded... up to 50% of the child population suffered from severe or acute malnutrition."
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-16568842