The United Nations World Food Program (WFP) has resumed aid operations in northern Somalia after its work was suspended following a string of deadly bomb attacks late last month, according to a press release Saturday.
The WFP distributed in the past week some 522 tons of food or roughly 45 percent of the distribution planned for this month through various projects in the region, it said.
Kitchen cutlery and other utensils were also delivered to 105 schools to help with the school feeding program, it added.
The WFP's aid operations were halted after a wave of attacks in northern Somalia on Oct. 29, which resulted in the deaths of two Somali nationals.
The WFP has also continued its food aid deliveries in southern and central Somalia, giving out food to an estimated 400,000 internally displaced persons (IDPs) in the Afgooye corridor of the Lower Shebelle administrative region, the report said.
The agency said it was able to boost its distribution plans for November across southern and central Somalia, despite the current rainy season and the prolonged insecurity across the Horn of Africa nation. It is targeting 2.3 million Somalis with some 39,000 tons of food this month.
Somalia is plagued by conflict, drought and the soaring cost of fuel and basic foods. The UN efforts to bring relief have been hampered by the widespread insecurity and frequent attacks on aid workers.
Source:Xinhua
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