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French Naval Escorts Assure WFP Food Supplies To Somalia; Denmark Takes Over
The United Nations World Food Programme hailed the
French navy for protecting WFP food ships from pirate attacks in Somalia,
and thanked Denmark for taking over the operation to ensure critical
escorts continue for the next two months.
"Safe travel through Somali waters has made an enormous impact on our
ability to reach more than a million hungry, vulnerable people," said WFP
Executive Director Josette Sheeran, from WFP's headquarters in Rome. "As
food security continues to deteriorate in Somalia, and the number of
hungry
people is set to rise, I urge other governments to step forward in the
same
spirit of cooperation."
Late last year, for the first time in its history, WFP food ships
travelled
under naval escort through some of the most dangerous waters in the world
today. The response by the French government followed WFP's appeal to the
international community when food ships came under attack and piracy
presented a major barrier to the delivery of vital relief supplies.
In 2007, a total of 31 acts of piracy - three of them against ships
ferrying WFP food to Somalia - were reported off the Somali coast, with
154
crew members taken hostage in 11 separate hijackings.
Since the French escort operation began in mid-November, a total of
nine
shipments carrying over 30,000 metric tons of food - enough to feed
300,000
people for six months - were landed safely at the ports of Mogadishu
and
Merka. French frigates escorted ships from the Kenyan port of
Mombasa,
north through some of the most dangerous stretches of Somali waters
to
within sight of their offloading points.
The escorts protected food deliveries at a critical time. Some
670,000
people fled fighting in Mogadishu in 2007, and some of the food went
to
provide two million cooked meals for the hungry in conflict-torn
Mogadishu.
In other parts of Somalia, thousands of other people struggled with
the
worst cereal harvest in 13 years.
Thanks to the escorts, WFP was able to build up in-country
stocks -
critical to assuring a smooth flow of food. WFP expects to feed 1.8
million
people in Somalia in 2008 - up from 1.53 million in 2007. The escorts
also
encouraged ship owners to make their vessels available to WFP
for
deliveries to Somalia.
With Denmark taking over the naval escort from France, WFP said it
can
build on gains made these last few months. Other ships plying the
same
waters will also benefit from the overall improvement in security.
Other UN agencies and NGOs are now interested in sharing vessel
capacity
with WFP to deliver other important humanitarian supplies.
As life gets increasingly difficult for many in Somalia, WFP urgently
needs
US$15 million to buy nearly 20,000 metric tons of food to cover
shortfalls
until June. Without new donations, WFP food will run out as early as
March.
Donors to WFP's Somalia operation include United States (US$69.5
million),
Canada (US$10.3 million), Netherlands (US$6.8 million), Japan
(US$5.9
million), Multilateral (US$4.4 million), Saudi Arabia (US$3.3
million),
Germany (US$3 million), UN Central Emergency Response Fund (US$2.5
million
for CERF see: http://ochaonline.un.org), Finland (US$1.9 million),
Ireland
(US$1.7 million), Switzerland (US$1.1 million), Russian Federation
(US$1
million) and private donors (US$1 million).
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency: in 2006 we gave food to
88
million people - mostly women and children â€" in 78 of the world's
poorest
countries.
http://www.wfp.org
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