Humanitarian Crisis Looms in Somalia

BBC:

The UN has warned of a humanitarian disaster in Somalia, as fighting continues between insurgents and government-backed Ethiopian forces.

More than 200,000 people have fled their homes amid ongoing clashes in the capital, Mogadishu, the UN said.

Aid workers say the city is inhabited only by fighters and men protecting the remains of their property.

The fighting is making it increasingly difficult for the U.N. to get aid to the people who need it. Somalia has been effectively without government, and at the mercy of warlords, for sixteen years.