In a country can that be self sufficient in feeding it’s own people is caught in cycle of violence and food handouts.

Mogadishu, (insidesomalia.org) Monthly food distribution is underway in lower Shabelle region of Somalia including Afgoi and Elasha, the main centers to where people have fled from Mogadishu, says Peter Smerdon, United Nations World Food Program spokesman talking to VOA Africa Service in Nairobi.

World Food Programme (WFP) is doing the distribution to approximately 200,000 people displaced by the on-going fighting in the Somali capital, Mogadishu; where government forces backed by the Ethiopian army are fighting against insurgents.

United Nations said that at least one million people have fled from the violence in Mogadishu whom many of them went to Afgoi and efforts are continuing to help those most affected, said the spokesman.

There is quite a lot of diarrhea in the Elasha and Afgoi and children are getting very sick because of poor sanitation and the people in the camps are in need of clean water, medical facilities and shelter since they live in make shift huts.

Two ships carrying WFP food arrived on Monday off the port of Merka, the provincial capital of Lower Shabelle region of Somalia escorted by French Navy because of the danger of the piracy, as confirmed by officials from the Lower Shabelle Authorities.

Due to the fighting in Mogadishu, displacement and difficulty in getting assistance to those in need, United Nations calls Somalia the worst humanitarian crisis.

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