Somalia: Food aid for flood victims

The United Nations World Food Programme has said it will provide help for at least six-hundred-thousand Somali flood victims over the next six months.

A statement issued in the Kenyan capital Nairobi said flood victims in Somalia would need nearly thirty-thousand tonnes of food to survive until the next harvest, in July.

The agency said it estimated that heavy rain and flooding had destroyed more than thirty-thousand tonnes of food reserves and damaged some sixty-thousand hectares of farmland.

Reports from the region say the flood waters have begun to recede.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service