Friday, January 20, 2012
The ICRC has further stated that the suspension would continue until there were assurances from authorities controlling those areas that unrestricted distribution would take place as previously agreed.
Two aid workers from a local NGO were killed near the town of Dhuusamarreeb in Galgaduud last Thursday as they travelled to Guri Ceel on a humanitarian mission.
The two were caught in an Al-Shabaab ambush intended for an Ethiopian convoy that had passed before them.
The deaths brought to seven the total number of aid workers killed in the past four weeks.
The killings came just two days after the main UN compound in Mogadishu was also attacked with two hand grenades on January 10.
There were no injuries contrary to claims on the Al-Shabaab website that the attack seriously injured four UN staff.
The Red Cross, one of the few organisations
distributing aid in the most inaccessible areas of southern Somalia has
distributed food to more than 1.1 million people and provided
agricultural support to more than 100,000 farmers since October last
year.
UNHCR estimates internally displaced persons in Somalia had decreased to 1.35 million from 1.46 million.