Al-Shabab militias seize UN compound in Somalia,Al-Shabab militants raid UN base in Somalia

Thursday, April 08, 2010 (BIN) – Al-Shabab militias have taken over a United Nations compound in the southern Somalia, on Thursday.

According to BBC, the fighters from the Al-Shabab group, which is linked to al-Qaeda, disarmed guards at the base in Wajid near Baidoa.
However, the World Food Programme insists that the base was empty and the move would not affect its operations.

United Nation’s Food Agency, WFP temporarily suspended food aid distribution in southern Somalia on January, 03 2010 over Islamists threats but later on 28^th February Al-Shabab barred WFP and its contracts to operate in Somalia.

According to the last estimate from the United Nations, nearly half of Somalia’s population is in dire need of urgent aid. The population is facing the worst humanitarian catastrophe for the last two decades. 

Hunger, violence, lack of basic necessity and Al-Shabab ban over WFP operations in southern parts of the country made the situation worse than before. 

Al-Shabab controls much of southern Somalia, while the UN-backed government is only in charge of a small part of the capital, Mogadishu.

Al-Shabab militants raid UN base in Somalia