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Monitoring report on Somalia, Eritrea Thu, Jul 28 2011 Related News World's biggest refugee camp extended as Somalis flood in Thu, Jul 28 2011 Q+A: The headaches of getting aid to famine-stricken Somalia Thu, Jul 28 2011 Somalia rebels main block to aid: U.N. report Thu, Jul 28 2011 Horn of Africa aid caravan too late, again Tue, Jul 26 2011 Analysis & Opinion Hope for ending hunger in our lifetimes Me and the man with the iPad Related Topics World » Politics » United Nations » An internally displaced Somali family stand the rain outside their makeshift shelter in the south of Mogadishu's Hodan district August 2, 2011. Credit: Reuters/Omar Faruk By Andrew Quinn WASHINGTON | Tue Aug 2, 2011 1:51pm EDT WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States is working to get more relief into famine-ravaged southern Somalia and is reassuring aid agencies they will not be penalized for programs in regions controlled by al Shabaab rebels, U.S. officials said on Tuesday. "We have issued new guidance to allow more flexibility and to allow a wider range of aid to a larger number of areas in need," one U.S. official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. "Humanitarian assistance organizations that have good faith efforts to deliver food to people in need will not risk prosecution." The United States has placed al Shabaab on its official list of foreign terrorist organizations, a designation which forbids U.S. groups from providing "material support" to the group that controls large parts of the Horn of Africa nation. The designation has complicated international aid efforts for Somalia, where a famine is spreading and some 3.7 million people are in urgent need of assistance in southern regions, many of them in areas controlled by al Shabaab. The U.S. officials declined to say what specific steps are being taken to lift the threat of prosecution for aid flowing into al Shabaab regions. But they said aid organizations should feel confident they can step up efforts to provide assistance in the worst-hit areas. Concerns over possible diversion of relief supplies to al Shabaab prompted a number of international aid organizations to suspend programs in southern Somalia in January 2010 and continue to constrain aid work, the U.S. officials said. Al Shabaab has given conflicting signals about whether aid programs will be allowed to resume but the U.S. officials said they believed that, at least in some hard-hit parts of Somalia, it would be possible to get assistance in. "We don't expect there to be any grand bargain where we'll be able to have access to all of southern Somalia," a second U.S. official said. "(But) we believe there will be ways and opportunities to move selectively into southern Somalia." The United Nations' humanitarian aid chief said on Monday the famine in the Horn of Africa is spreading and may soon engulf as many as six more regions of Somalia. 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