On the road to Afgooye, an estimated 200,000 displaced people fleeing Somalia’s capital city are living in incredibly difficult sanitary conditions. Mortality and health indicators are largely above emergency levels.

Increased fighting inside Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu has led to another exodus of the local population, adding to hundreds of thousands of internally displaced people who have already fled the conflict area since January 2007. West of Mogadishu, on the road to Afgooye, where Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) has been providing emergency medical and nutritional care since April 2007, the number of IDPs has nearly doubled in just a few weeks, reaching an estimated 200,000 people. Most live by the roadside under makeshift shelters and are fully dependent on external assistance.

Full article: http://www.msf.ca/en/news/newsreleases/2007/121107_somalia.html