29 Somali kids died over past 24 hours

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Thu Aug 18, 2011 10:12AM GMT
Reported by Press TV Iran

A malnourished child awaits medical attention at the Banadir hospital on August 16, 2011 in Mogadishu, Somalia.

At least 29 children have died of hunger over the past 24 hours in famine-stricken Somalia as death threatens the lives of a large number of children every day.


Dozens of Somali children were also rushed to hospitals during the last 24 hours, a Press TV correspondent reported on Thursday.

More than three million Somalis are at risk of starvation in Somalia, where a state of famine has been declared by the United Nations.

According to aid agencies, the drought is the worst in decades to hit Somalia.

On Wednesday, the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) convened in Istanbul, Turkey, to discuss the situation in the famine-hit country.

OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu said at a news conference after the OIC summit that OIC member states pledged $350 million in aid to fight famine in Somalia.

Ihsanoglu said he hoped the aid would soon reach $500 million.

The World Bank has warned in a new report that over the last three months 29,000 children under the age of five have died of malnutrition and starvation in Somalia.

Link: http://www.presstv.ir/detail/194489.html

 

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OIC pledges $350 million to Somalia

Wed Aug 17, 2011 10:50PM GMT

Turkish Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu (L), Somalia's President Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed (C) and Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan (R) attend an OIC meeting in Istanbul, Turkey, on August 17, 2011.

Members of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) have pledged to donate $350 million in relief to fight famine in Somalia.


"All in all we have secured $350 million in pledges. We hope to raise the commitments to $500 million in a very short time," said OIC Secretary General Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu after an emergency meeting in Istanbul, Turkey on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

Meanwhile, Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan criticized the "Western world” for turning a blind eye to the plight of the poor.

"I hope the efforts (of the OIC) will mobilize the sleeping consciences. We hope the Western world, which likes to boast about its per capita income, shows its support for Somalia," Erdogan told foreign ministers from the 57-nation OIC.

Iran, an OIC member, pledged last week to donate USD 25 million to the famine-stricken people of Somalia. Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi is scheduled to visit Somalia in the next few days to speed up the distribution of Iranian aid.

Iran has already dispatched three planeload of humanitarian aid for Somali people and plans to send its fourth air convoy by sea.

The United Nations has warned that some 3.7 million people are at risk of starvation in Somalia, the worst affected by the humanitarian catastrophe that has affected more than 12 million people across East Africa.

 

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Turkey pledges $150mn Somalia Aid

Thu Aug 18, 2011 5:29AM GMT

Somalia has been hit by what is being described as the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.

Turkey has pledged USD 150 million in humanitarian aid to the Somali government as the African nation struggles with the most catastrophic famine in decades.


Somali government officials in the capital Mogadishu confirmed the donation on Wednesday, a Press TV correspondent reported.

Turkey has also dispatched a cargo plane carrying a field hospital and 30 tons of relief aid to Somalia.

Meanwhile, representatives from nearly 40 of the 57 member countries of the Organization of the Islamic Cooperation (OIC) pledged in a Wednesday emergency meeting on Somalia in Istanbul to donate around USD 350 million to assist with famine relief efforts in the African nation.

Kazakhstan has also made an offer of USD 500,000 in aid to crisis-hit Somalia.

Turkey's President Abdullah Gul met his Somali counterpart Sheikh Sharif Ahmed on the sidelines of the OIC meeting.

The drought and famine have affected more than 11.8 million people across Somalia, Kenya, and Ethiopia. Somalia has been the hardest-hit country in what is being described as the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.

Turkey's Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, meanwhile, plans to travel to Somalia along with his family on Thursday to visit relief camps in the country in an effort to draw international attention to the plight of its famine-stricken people.

According to the United Nations, it is estimated that a quarter of Somalia's population of 9.9 million are now either internally displaced or living outside the country as refugees.

Somalia has been without a functioning government since 1991, when warlords overthrew the country's ruling dictator Mohamed Siad Barre.

 

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More Somali children die in Ethiopia: UN

Wed Aug 17, 2011 1:6AM GMT

Recently arrived refugees from Somalia pray before the burial of 18-month-old Sahro Mohamed, who died of acute severe malnutrition and dehydration, at the Kobe refugee camp 60 km (37 miles) from Dolo Ado near the Ethiopia-Somalia border, August 12, 2011.

The United Nations says an average of ten Somali children under the age of five die in Ethiopia's Kobe refugee camp every day.


The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday that the average number of deaths stretched back to June, which meant at least 500 children had died in the camp in less than two months, Reuters reported.

Adrian Edwards, a spokesman with the office of the UNHCR, said that malnutrition was the main cause of the deaths, adding that a measles outbreak had increased the toll.

More than 29,000 children under the age of five have starved to death over the past three months in southern Somalia, reports say.

Ron Redmond, a UNHCR spokesman in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, said parents of families arriving in Ethiopia did not have information about caring for their malnourished children, another reason for the rising death toll.

"Parents are told they need to sustain the supplementary feeding but they don't always do it. Ensuring that they treat their kids and bring them back to health centers in a large camp is difficult and labor intensive," said Redmond

Kobe camp was opened in Dollo Adow of southeast Ethiopia in June to host Somalis fleeing drought and conflict and reached its 25,000 capacity in a month.

Around 17,500 Somalis have entered the Gode and Afder areas of Ethiopia, 150 miles (241km) northeast of Dollo Adow, in the past six weeks.

Nearly four million Somalis are at risk of starvation as the country grapples with the worst drought in decades.

 

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