Somalia raises alarm over food shortage

Somalia food crisis

Displaced Somalis queue for food-aid rations at a distribution centre in the capital Mogadishu on January 19, 2012. PHOTO | AFP

Somalia has raised the alarm over a food shortage that has hit the country this season, affecting at least six million people.

Officials from the Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management said on Saturday that a humanitarian crisis is looming in the country.