{"id":438271,"date":"2011-06-08T16:59:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:59:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/06\/08\/msf-is-denied-access-to-drought-affected-areas\/"},"modified":"2011-06-08T16:59:44","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T16:59:44","slug":"msf-is-denied-access-to-drought-affected-areas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/msf-is-denied-access-to-drought-affected-areas\/","title":{"rendered":"MSF is Denied Access to Drought-Affected Areas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"37.6301145663\">\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shabelle.net\/the-news-in-english\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shabelle Media Network<\/a> (Mogadishu)<\/p>\n<p>8 June 2011<\/p>\n<hr class=\"thin clear\" \/>\n<p>After weeks of negotiation, M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) says it has been blocked last April by the local authorities from conducting emergency medical activities in Buurhakaba district in the Bay region of South Central Somalia, where drought affected population needed nutritional support and clean water.<\/p>\n<p>MSF&#8217;s planned emergency response included water trucking, nutrition screening for<\/p>\n<p>children under the age of five, and food distribution for malnourished children.<\/p>\n<p>However, the authorities have not allowed MSF to access the area.<\/p>\n<p>Buurhakaba district is highly populated, with estimated 125 000 people. At the<\/p>\n<p>moment, there is no other actor providing nutrition support to this population.<\/p>\n<p>MSF is an independent medical organization with projects in eight regions of Somalia. Over 1,500 Somali staff, supported by approximately 100 staff in Nairobi, provide primary health care, malnutrition treatment, health care and support to displaced people, surgery, and water and relief supply distributions in some locations.<\/p>\n<p>MSF offers assistance to people based only on need, irrespective of race, religion, gender, political or clan affiliation.<\/p>\n<p>MSF does not accept any government funding for its projects in Somalia, all its funding comes from private donors.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<fieldset>\n<legend align=\"center\"><strong>More News on allAfrica.com<\/strong><\/legend>\n<\/fieldset>\n<p>AllAfrica &#8211; All the Time<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>See original article:<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/201106081186.html\" title=\"MSF is Denied Access to Drought-Affected Areas\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">MSF is Denied Access to Drought-Affected Areas<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) 8 June 2011 After weeks of negotiation, M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) says it has been blocked last April by the local authorities from conducting emergency medical activities in Buurhakaba district in the Bay region of South Central Somalia, where drought affected population needed nutritional support and clean water. MSF&#8217;s planned emergency response included water trucking, nutrition screening for children under the age of five, and food distribution for malnourished children. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":438272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-438271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>MSF is Denied Access to Drought-Affected Areas - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/06\/08\/msf-is-denied-access-to-drought-affected-areas\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"MSF is Denied Access to Drought-Affected Areas - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Shabelle Media Network (Mogadishu) 8 June 2011 After weeks of negotiation, M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res (MSF) says it has been blocked last April by the local authorities from conducting emergency medical activities in Buurhakaba district in the Bay region of South Central Somalia, where drought affected population needed nutritional support and clean water. 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