Ambassador Ameriko urged the Somali business men in Kenya and in Somalia to establish fund raising events to collect money for the people in need and start emergence intervention.

Mogadishu (Sunatimes) – Somalia’s ambassador to Kenya Amb. Mohamed Ali Nur (Ameriko) alarmed the international aid agencies to start emergency intervention relieving the draught affected people in Somalia.
Amb Ameriko confirmed that there is large humanitarian crisis in Somalia which affected millions of people who are in need of emergence relief.

”The situation of the draught affected people in Somalia is worsening time by time and this is the worst time” said the ambassador, Ameriko.
“People are starving, they are in danger, so, we need emergency relief” he continued.
“I urge the UN agencies, international relief NGOs and the good
Samaritans to stand for the relief of the people who are in a dire situation, we need to assist them now before they start dying” he added.
The ambassador currently visited some areas in Mogadishu and other places in southern Somalia, where he surveyed the situation of hundreds of people who fled from areas controlled by the warring functioning against the transitional federal government of Somalia.
“The government had seized some districts in Mogadishu from Alshabab insurgents, the people are moving to those places so that they can be in a place where the aid agencies can come and help them” he said.
“So, there is no way to wait, the aid agencies have to move to the places and help the people” he urged.
Ambassador Ameriko urged the Somali business men in Kenya and in Somalia to establish fund raising events to collect money for the people in need and start emergence intervention.

The ambassador also urged the aid agencies to go to the Somali towns in Somalia-Kenyan border which are newly liberated from Alshabab militants and help the people who are affected by the war and dire humanitarian crisis.
The Somalia Ambassador in Nairobi is considered as an ambassador overwhelmed by humanity for his tireless efforts to help the Somali refugees in Kenya apart from his outstanding diplomatic mission in Kenya.
He currently released hundreds of Somali youth from Kenyan jails and resettled them in the refugee camps after they were arrested by Kenya police accusing them of illegally staying in Kenya.

By Dahir Alasow