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Relief food shipment arrives in southern Somalia

[Guinea] Most of the areas in Conakry don't benefit from water and drinking water at home, June 21, 2004. Pierre Holtz/IRIN
Plusieurs quartiers de Conakry manquent d'eau potable
    CONAKRY
    A WFP shipment of 5,000 mt of maize for drought-stricken southern Somalia arrived in Merca on Friday, a WFP press release said. It was the last shipment before the onset of monsoon winds and the first direct shipment from Europe to Somalia since 1995. “We are racing against time to get this food unloaded, as the water is so choppy the barges are really struggling to shuttle the food onto dry land,” WFP’s Logistics Officer for Somalia, John Hayes, said. The donation, which is from the European Union, will feed about 500,000 people and will be distributed over the next four months.

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