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Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Invisible millions pay price of statelessness Tue, Aug 23 2011 Somalia wants humanitarian force to guard food convoys Sat, Aug 13 2011 Famine squeezes life out of southern Somalia Fri, Aug 12 2011 WFP says has more access in Somalia, Mogadishu a challenge Thu, Aug 11 2011 Analysis & Opinion What we’ve learned from 25 years of famine Top ten myths about the Libya war Related Topics World » United Nations » AlertNet » Members of al Shabaab, al Qaeda-linked insurgents, distribute relief to famine-stricken internally displaced people at Ala Yaasir camp at Km50 out of Somalia's capital Mogadishu September 3, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Feisal Omar By Katy Migiro Mon Sep 5, 2011 10:23am EDT NAIROBI, Sept 5 (AlertNet) - Famine has spread to six out of eight regions in southern Somalia, with 750,000 people facing imminent starvation, the United Nations said on Monday, and hundreds of people are dying each day despite a ramping up of aid relief. "The entire Bay region has now been declared a famine area," said Mark Bowden, the U.N.'s humanitarian coordinator for Somalia. Bay is the sixth region of Somalia to slip into famine since the U.N.'s initial declaration of famine in the war-torn country in July that has left 4 million Somalis, or 53 percent of the population, unable to meet their food needs. Hundreds of people are dying each day and at least half of them are children, the U.N.' Grainne Moloney said, adding she expected the remaining regions of southern Somalia to slip into famine by the end of the year. "The rate of malnutrition (among children) in Bay region is 58 per cent. This is a record rate of acute malnutrition," said Moloney, the chief technical advisor for the U.N. Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit. Aid agencies are only able to get food aid to 1 million of those in need because the al Qaeda-affiliated rebel group, al Shabaab, which controls much of the south, will not allow food shipments in. Instead, agencies are using food and cash vouchers which hungry families can exchange for commodities in local markets. "Focusing on the access that people have to food will help to stabilize the situation more than just looking entirely at food distributions as a solution," Bowden said. RAINS WILL BRING MORE DEATHS Somalia is at the epicenter of a hunger crisis in the Horn of Africa region which is affecting over 13 million people. While a small harvest is expected in January, following rains in October, the situation is unlikely to improve until main harvest of August 2012 and the rains are not without their risks. "This crisis is not going away any time soon and we are still looking at, over the next 12 months, acute numbers of population in need," said Moloney. "The rains unfortunately bring with them increased risk of disease. Cholera, malaria and measles could dramatically increase death rates amongst an already weakened population," said Bowden. Aid agencies say they are still short an estimated $1 billion in emergency funds and Bowden blamed donors for not responding fast enough to the crisis. "In terms of funding, I'm not sure that we still have adequate resources to address the issue of communicable diseases," Bowden said. "Part of the reason we are facing the situation that we are in now is that we didn't get the money at the beginning of the year when we warned of the famine," he said. The African Union held a much-delayed donor conference late last month which was shunned by most heads of state and raised $351 million, $300 million of which came from the African Development Bank to be spent over a four-year period. Kenya, where parts of the country are facing the most severe drought in decades, is hosting a regional summit to discuss the food crisis on September 8-9. 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