Africa editor, BBC News<\/span><\/span><\/p>\nThe Red Cross says it has delivered food into one of Somalia’s worst hit drought areas, controlled by the Islamist militant group al-Shabab.<\/p>\n
Working through a local committee, the Red Cross delivered by lorry food for 24,000 people.<\/p>\n
The badly needed aid was distributed to families in the town of Baardhere, north-west of the capital Mogadishu.<\/p>\n
But the World Food Programme says it cannot reach 2.2m people inside Somalia.<\/p>\n
The food was delivered by the Red Cross was sent in from Mogadishu and given to locals and others who had come to the town to escape the famine.<\/p>\n
The delivery took place on Saturday, and the Red Cross are now moving on to other areas.<\/p>\n
The aid consisted of beans, rice and oil – enough rations to last a family one month.<\/p>\n
This indicates that although al-Shabab has halted food aid by some agencies in areas they control, other agencies can operate in their territory.<\/p>\n
Banned aid<\/span><\/p>\nThis is vital, if the flow of Somalis into neighbouring Kenya and Ethiopia is to be reduced.<\/p>\n
The World Food Programme is among the agencies banned by the Islamists.<\/p>\n
Executive Director Josette Sheeran, who is in the area, says this is limiting the aid they can provide.<\/p>\n
“The epicentre of this famine and the drought is in Somalia,” says Ms Sheeran.<\/p>\n
“We are able to reach about 1.5m people in Somalia but there is about 2.2m million that are not being able to be reached directly by humanitarian workers.”<\/p>\n
But while the World Food Programme is on the banned list, others like the Red Cross and Medecins Sans Frontiers, are still working in al-Shabab territory.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n
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