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Somali Premier in Kenyan For Drought Talks
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Saturday July 09, 2011 - 22:06:04 in Latest News by Super Admin
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The trip to Kenya is Dr. Ali’s first international visit as Somalia’s prime minister Nairobi (Sunatimes) Somalia’s Prime Minister Dr.
Abdiweli Mohamed on Friday made his first foreign trip aimed at boosting the
ongoing drought mitigation efforts as the country falls into a dangerous
humanitarian catastrophe.
A source privy to the office of the prime minister told the local media in Mogadishu that the premier is set to hold talks with a number of international humanitarian organizations based in Kenyan capital Nairobi.
He is also set to meet number western diplomats in an effort to reach with timely aid thousands of famine-famished populations in the south of the country where crippling drought conditions are on a worsening trend.
The trip to Kenya is Dr. Ali’s first international visit as Somalia’s prime minister after he was appointed to the post last month by President Sheikh Sharif.
The premier is expected to address the international community over the drought situation of the country and also expected to estimate the amount of aid needed to curb the growing catastrophe
The premier’s trip to Kenya comes a week after the president of Somalia’s transitional federal government called for the international community and donors to urgently deliver humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa nation.
Hundreds of drought-displaced Somalis have been thronging the porous border of Kenya and Somalia, many of them making their ways into inhospitable refugee camps in the two neighboring countries,
About 1,700 Somalis are arriving daily in southeast Ethiopia, while in neighboring Kenya about 1,400 each day reach the overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp, according to the UNHCR.
By Mohamed Abdi
A source privy to the office of the prime minister told the local media in Mogadishu that the premier is set to hold talks with a number of international humanitarian organizations based in Kenyan capital Nairobi.
He is also set to meet number western diplomats in an effort to reach with timely aid thousands of famine-famished populations in the south of the country where crippling drought conditions are on a worsening trend.
The trip to Kenya is Dr. Ali’s first international visit as Somalia’s prime minister after he was appointed to the post last month by President Sheikh Sharif.
The premier is expected to address the international community over the drought situation of the country and also expected to estimate the amount of aid needed to curb the growing catastrophe
The premier’s trip to Kenya comes a week after the president of Somalia’s transitional federal government called for the international community and donors to urgently deliver humanitarian aid to the Horn of Africa nation.
Hundreds of drought-displaced Somalis have been thronging the porous border of Kenya and Somalia, many of them making their ways into inhospitable refugee camps in the two neighboring countries,
About 1,700 Somalis are arriving daily in southeast Ethiopia, while in neighboring Kenya about 1,400 each day reach the overcrowded Dadaab refugee camp, according to the UNHCR.
By Mohamed Abdi
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Somali Premier in Kenyan For Drought Talks
The trip to Kenya is Dr. Ali’s first international visit as Somalia’s prime minister