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Somalia

UNICEF Somalia Monthly SitRep #8, August 2013

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HIGHLIGHTS:

  • The battle against Polio continues in all three regions of Somalia: 152 cases were confirmed by the end of August.

  • Food security improves with the number of people considered in food security crisis dropping to 870,000; however, 2.3 million Somalis remain at the margin of food insecurity.

  • Since January 2013, sanitation related interventions have benefitted approximately 196,754 people through the construction and/or rehabilitation of 4,760 sanitation facilities.

  • UNICEF, ADRA, and Directorate of Education (DoE) supported the Federal Government of Somalia participation at the “Learning for All Ministerial Meeting", the initiative led by Gordon Brown at the UN General Assembly on 23 September 2013.