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Hopes to “open up” north

    NAIROBI

    The recently signed peace agreement between the government and the armed wing of the Afar-based Front for the Restoration of Democracy (FRUD) may lead to the opening up of the northern districts, humanitarian agencies said. With improved security after 11 years of armed conflict, agencies said they hoped to open up some of “the most needy districts” in the underdeveloped north, the UN World Food Programme (WFP) said in its weekly emergency report on 22 June.

    Meanwhile, WFP said it had distributed 1,002 mt of food to some 72,000 drought-affected people, including the southern districts of Dikhil and Ali-Sabieh, as well as to drought victims in the Djibouti-Ville periphery.

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