Somalia: Demonstration against WFP staged in Bosaso

Mogadishu Wednesday 30 Sep 2009 Shaaficiyah Media

Wide demonstration aginest World Food Programme was on Wednesday staged in the town of Bosaso in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland in eastern Somalia.

The demonstrators had placards, depicted with starving children and elder people, and it was generally based on the closure of feeding centers which were ran, by World Food Programme in the semi-autonomous region of Puntland.

“We are Internal Displaced People, who have fled from the day-to-day clashed in the capital Mogadishu, and we have been relaying on the feeding centers of WFP, and we don’t know how our fate is going to be now after the shutting down of the centers where we have been feeding from” said Halima Noor a mother in the town of Bosaso who was among the beneficiaries of the feeding centers speaking to Somaliweyn radio over the wire.

The demonstrators who were mainly from southern Somali, and have also added that the wet food which they were used to be given is now changed to dry food which is given to the local residents, instead of the IDPa.

However the closure of the World Food Programme comes after along discussion between WFP officials and the officials of Puntland state.

Mohammed Omar Hussein