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Money will be used to fund humanitarian, development projects that will provide much needed assistance to Somalis.
NAIROBI, Feb 27, 2004 (Middle East Online) – UN agencies and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) operating in Somalia on Friday appealed for 111 million dollars to assist the war-torn Horn of Africa nation this year.
"The money will be used to fund a variety of emergency, recovery and development projects that will provide much needed assistance to the Somali people," a statement issued by the UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia Maxwell Gaylord said.
Gaylord also urged donors to provide urgent support to more than 200,000 Somalis whose livelihoods are threatened due to prolonged drought in the north of the country.
"While nearly 90,000 people are in continuing need of emergency relief, a further 113,000 require urgent livelihood support, such as cash for work projects, to prevent a full-blown humanitarian crisis," Gaylord noted.
Somalia plunged into a clan warfare in 1991 when the government of dictator Mohammed Siad Barre was toppled.
Fighting and recurrent famine have claimed an unknown number of lives and sent thousands of refugees into neighboring countries.
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