The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is suspending operations in southern Somalia, it announced Wednesday 6 January, saying that a spate of attacks have made it too dangerous to work there. More than one million people in the region are going hungry, according to the WFP. Reuters NewsAlert says that children are likely to be hurt the most by the suspension, with a sharp increase in malnutrition to be expected. The news is yet another blow to the region, where humanitarian agencies have found it increasingly hard, they say, to continue their work and where years of drought have been exacerbated because expected rains never arrived in November.

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