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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 UN ROME 000018 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
STATE FOR IO/HS, PRM/MCE, AF AND EB/IFD/ODA 
USAID FOR DCHA, FFP, OFDA, AND AFRICA BUREAU 
NAIROBI FOR GEORGIANNA PLATT, SUREKA KHANDAGLE, NICK COX AND PETE MOHAN 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: WFP AORC EAID PREF UNHCR
SUBJECT: WORLD FOOD PROGRAM: SOMALIA OPERATIONS SITUATION UPDATE AS 
OF FEBRUARY 15, 2010 
 
REF: A) 09 STATE 132604; B) UN ROME 01; C) UN ROME 03; D) UN ROME 08; E) UN ROME 10; F) UN ROME 12 
 
¶1.  (U) This message is sensitive but unclassified.  Please 
handle accordingly. 
 
¶2.  (SBU) WFP continues to express concerns over intensified 
fighting and shelling in Mogadishu.  Although not targeted, WFP 
fears spillover into the port area where WFP is currently 
operating its feeding operations for Mogadishu and the Afgoye 
corridor. 
 
¶3.  (SBU) On February 15, WFP disseminated its latest situation 
report.  The text is pasted in its entirety below: 
 
BEGIN REPORT 
"WFP Somalia Operations Situation 
As of February 15, 2010 
 
Summary Update 
 
-- A second road convoy from Berbera Port, Somaliland has left 
for Galkayo, central Somalia with about 450 mt of maize. This 
follows a test convoy from Berbera to Galkayo which successfully 
delivered 300 mt of food two weeks ago. 
 
-- During the last week of January all 16 sites of the wet 
feeding programme in Mogadishu were fully operational. All 16 
kitchens provided an average of 77,600 hot meals per day for the 
week. The total meals provided across the city during the 114th 
week of the programme were 473,320; taking the total number of 
meals delivered to 42,900,000 since the programme started in 
¶2007. 
 
-- WFP Bossaso Sub Office, with the support of Country Office 
Programme Team, concluded a two-day programme implementation 
review meeting with 18 cooperating partners undertaking various 
activities in Puntland. During the meeting, the partners noted 
that reporting, invoicing and use of waybills has improved 
following the training conducted last year by WFP. However, 
targeting-related issues still need to be improved by using 
Village Data Base and issuing ration cards in order to 
streamline the process of food distribution. 
 
-- Due to the deteriorating runway conditions in Hargeisa, the 
UNHAS Dornier Jet (from Nairobi - Hargeisa- Wajir - Nairobi) has 
started using the Berbera airport since 2 February. A shuttle 
service with a smaller UNHAS aircraft between Hargeisa and 
Berbera is established. This service should be replaced by a UN 
vehicle shuttle service after one month. The UN staff exposure 
to security risks while traveling between Hargeisa and Berbera 
based on a scheduled routing shuttle service will increase 
substantially. 
 
-- UNHAS operations continue to be fully available to 
organisations wishing to fly into the South, subject to security 
clearance from UNDSS. 
 
WFP Security Update 
 
In Mogadishu, day missions for international staff members may 
be possible, subject to UNDSS New York Security Clearance. 
National staff members continue to operate from the seaport. The 
security situation in Mogadishu continues to rapidly deteriorate 
as attacks linked to A/S are intensifying in anticipation of a 
larger confrontation with government forces backed by AMISOM. 
Reports are now surfacing that some residents have begun to flee 
the capital as clashes between the two forces are expected to 
generate significant collateral damage. According to UNHCR, over 
8,000 people have left the city to escape the fighting since the 
beginning of February. 
 
In Puntland, assassinations and hand grenade explosions are 
expected to continue especially in Galkacyo, Bossasso and 
Garowe. The Sool region, particularly the capital Las Anod, 
remains a hot spot, as both Somaliland and Puntland claim this 
territory and have fought over its control. 
 
UN ROME 00000018  002 OF 002 
 
 
 
Most parts of Somaliland have remained accessible for 
humanitarian operations and humanitarian operations dependent on 
that access have not been significantly affected. Due to the 
prevailing security situation, areas such as Las Anod, Buuhoold, 
Xudun and Taleh that are located in the Sool region have 
remained closed." 
END REPORT 
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