The number of people displaced within Somalia by recent violence has hit the 1 million mark, according to UN News Centre.
Of this figure, 600,000 have fled the “lawless Somali capital, Mogadishu,” Jennifer Pagonis of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) told journalists in Geneva.
Entire neighbourhoods in the capital are left empty over the past two weeks alone.
Mogadishu is also now home to an estimated 43,000 internally displaced people (IDPs), a 10,000 increase from a week ago, UNHCR said.
PLASTICSÆKKE OG PJALTER ER “HJEMME”
A recent assessment mission reported that families in the area lack proper shelter and are using plastic bags and rags to patch up their makeshift (interimistiske,red.) shelters.
Children are reportedly malnourished while health care is lacking.
BEKYMRING OVER SIKKERHEDEN
– We are increasingly worried about security incidents in the last several days, Ms. Pagonis said, citing an explosion there on Sunday which killed six people.
Another is the killing on Friday of an aid worker hit by a stray bullet as she helped distribute relief supplies to IDPs in the area.
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