By KEVIN J. KELLEYMore by this AuthorInternational donors are responding adequately to the food crisis in Somalia but are falling far short of supplying required amounts of aid in South Sudan, a United Nations humanitarian aid director has said. SOMALI DIASPORAOf even greater significance, Mr Ging added, is the $1.2 billion in remittances that Somalis living abroad send annually to their families. In South Sudan, by contrast, a $1.6 billion UN appeal is only 27 percent funded, Mr Ging said. A team of UN officials, including Mr Ging, recently visited the towns of Wau and Mayendit in South Sudan. Compared with the situation in 2011, Mr Ging added, aid workers today enjoy greater access to parts of Somalia controlled by Al-Shabaab.

Source: Daily Nation April 19, 2017 05:15 UTC