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Last year's Somali famine killed over 10,000 people. Thanks to a plentiful harvest and an increase in emergency food aid, the famine has finally ended. However, UN officials warn that emergency food aid is needed for more than two million Somalis.Anti-Western Islamist militia group Shabab banned Western aid from entering most of southern Somalia. Even in the face of such staunch opposition the United Nations helped contribute more than $1 billion. Aid workers worked tirelessly to deliver emergency aid to areas under the Somali transitional government.
Senait Gebregziabher, head of Somali operations for Oxfam has said, "The world shouldn't turn its back on Somalia solely because statistics say there is no longer a famine."
-Akshika Patel
SOURCE:New York Times
