NAIROBI, 18 February 2008 (IRIN) – Thousands of families in Somalia’s Middle Juba region need urgent help after being hit by a severe water shortage caused by catchment areas drying up and boreholes malfunctioning, local officials said.
“The situation in some villages is very bad and we need to truck water to them,” Abas Haji Abdullahi, the district commissioner, told IRIN on 18 February.
Read more: IRIN, 18 Feb 2008
