雨季结束了索马里饥荒，但危机远未结束(1/2)

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概述：美国之音慢速英语新闻报道，联合国本周正式宣布索马里南部饥荒结束。但千百万人仍处于危险之中。
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Somalia
the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization
Director-General
Jose Graziano da Silva
Kenya
Sahel
Sudan
The FAO and the Famine Early Warning Network

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This week, the United Nations declared an official end to the famine in southern Somalia. Recent rains, an improved harvest and a major humanitarian aid effort during the past six months helped reduce the threat of starvation.
But the new head of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says millions of people are still at risk. Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva says conditions could again worsen unless the aid continues during the next one hundred days.
JOSE GRAZIANO DA SILVA: "If we do not keep in support, especially those three months that we have in drought season until came the rain season in April, those people will not survive. We will have famine back."
Mr. da Silva traveled this week to southern Somalia. On Friday he told reporters in Kenya that no more areas of Somalia are under famine conditions. But in his words, "good news does not mean that the crisis is over."
JOSE GRAZIANO DA SILVA: "We still have a huge problem in the region particularly in Somalia and also in the other countries that you know are facing similar situation like the Sahel region in particular the South Sudan.''
United Nations officials now list the situation in Somalia as a "humanitarian emergency" instead of a famine. "Famine" means two adults or four children per ten thousand people die of hunger each day and a third of children are severely malnourished.
The FAO and the Famine Early Warning Network say more than two million people still need emergency assistance. That is almost one-third of Somalia's population.
The United Nations says tens of thousand of people have died since the famine was first declared in parts of southern Somalia in July. Now, refugees have started slowly returning after a good harvest in the recent rainy season.联合国本周正式宣布索马里南部饥荒结束。最近的降雨，粮食收成的改善，以及过去六个月大范围人道主义援助的努力帮助降低了饥饿的威胁。
但联合国粮农组织的新任总干事何塞•格拉齐亚诺•达席尔瓦（Jose Graziano da Silva）表示，千百万人仍处于危险之中。他说，在未来100天里，除非援助继续，否则情况可能会再次恶化。
达席尔瓦：“如果我们不继续支持，特别是在4月份雨季来临前的干旱季节的这三个月，这些人将无法生存。饥荒将重新回来。”
达席尔瓦先生本周走访了索马里南部。他周五在肯尼亚对记者表示，索马里并没有更多地区陷入饥荒。但用他的话来说，“这个好消息并不意味着危机已经结束。”
达席尔瓦：“该地区仍然存在很大的问题，特别是在索马里境内部分。以及面临类似状况的其它国家，像萨赫勒地区南苏丹境内部分。”
联合国官员目前将索马里现状列为“人道主义紧急状态”而不是饥荒。饥荒是指每万人中每天有两名成人或四名儿童死于饥饿，三分之一的儿童严重营养不良。
粮农组织和饥荒预警网络称仍有超过2千万人需要紧急援助，这几乎占到索马里人口的三分之一。
联合国表示，自去年7月份索马里南部部分地区首次宣布饥荒以来，已经有数万人死亡。目前，在最近雨季的好收成之后，难民已经开始慢慢返回该地区。