Mogadishu (INA) – The Somali federal government announced today, Saturday, that it is delivering food aid by air and land, to provide relief to thousands of residents of the southwestern Gedo region, who suffer from severe food shortages. Somali President Hassan Sheikh Mahmoud, who visited Gedo Governorate, said: The people living in each of the cities of Garbhari, the town of Hawa, and Luuq live in difficult humanitarian conditions, and they are in dire need of urgent aid from food and medicine, adding that other areas in the southwest are no less tragic than the region. Due to the late monsoon rains this year. Sheikh Mahmoud indicated that the regular and African forces are ensuring the arrival of aid trucks from international and local institutions to the areas affected by famine and drought. Last week, the Somali Council of Ministers declared a state of emergency for the regions of southern Somalia, which in 2011 witnessed the worst famine in 60 years, killing thousands of herders and the poor, and killing more than a million heads of livestock. Farah's life is over
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