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| Last Updated: Apr 3, 2012 - 2:47:55 AM |
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Iranian People Send over $30mln Worth of Aids to Somalia
7 Jan 7, 2012 - 1:54:40 AM
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TEHRAN Iran 07,Jan ,2012 (FNA)- A senior official of Iran's Red Crescent Society (RCS) announced that Iranians have dispatched over $30mln worth of humanitarian aids to the drought-hit people of Somalia.
"Our country's benevolent people have, thus far, sent 46bln Tomans (over USD30mln) worth of aids to the Somali people (specially in Mogadishu)," Secretary-General of the RCS Zaher Rostami told FNA on Saturday.
Elsewhere, Rostami reiterated that Iran's Red Crescent Society has also set up 22 relief and rescue camps in Pakistan to help the country's people who have been stricken by giant floods.
The Islamic Republic of Iran was among the first countries which rushed to the aid of the Somali people and it has dispatched over 14 aid cargos to the African nation thus far.
In October, Iran shipped its largest cargo of humanitarian aids weighing about 5000 tons to Somalia.
The cargo contained medicine, rice, flour, cereal, sugar, and some other goods.
A number of Iranian officials, including Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi, have visited Somalia to inspect the famine-hit areas and oversee the process of delivering aid to the country.
According to the World Food Program, drought and famine have affected more than 11.8 million people in the Horn of Africa and created a triangle of hunger where the borders of Ethiopia, Kenya, and Somalia meet.
Somalia has been the hardest-hit country by what is being described as the worst drought in the Horn of Africa in 60 years.
The United Nations has warned that more than thirteen children out of every 10,000 aged less than five die in the Somalia famine zone every day.
Source: Fares News Agency
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