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\n Aid ban still in place in Somalia, Islamist militants say<\/strong>
\n(CNN)<\/strong> \u2014 Islamist militants in Somalia have reversed a pledge to allow foreign aid agencies to operate in famine-struck regions in the nation.<\/p>\n\u201dThe lift of ban on aid agencies doesn\u2019t include the agencies that we banned earlier in areas we control because those agencies don\u2019t do relief work, they are spies and work on political agendas\u2019,\u201d Al-Shabaab spokesman Ali Mohamud Raage said Thursday on the militants\u2019 radio station, Al Furqaan.<\/p>\n
His announcement reverses his pledge this month that militants would allow aid groups to operate in areas under their control.<\/p>\n
Al-Shabaab originally banned foreign aid organizations from providing aid in southern Somalia in 2009, describing them as Western spies and Christian crusaders.<\/p>\n
The ban included the United Nations Development Programme, World Food Programme and CARE International. The World Food Programme has said that a new dialogue \u2014 but not negotiations \u2014 is under way with the group.<\/p>\n
Raage accused the groups of having a political agenda in declaring a famine in Somalia.<\/p>\n
\u201dThe U.N. said that there is famine in Somalia. That is not true. It is a lie and they are politicizing the issue,\u201d he said. \u201cWe only have drought in Somalia, not famine.\u201d<\/p>\n
Aid groups issued an urgent appeal this week for international help, saying Somalia faces a famine that has left half of the population in dire need.<\/p>\n
Somalia is battling its worst drought in 60 years, sending tens of thousands walking for days into both Kenya and Ethiopia in search of food and water.<\/p>\n
\u201cNearly 3.7 million people are now in crisis,\u201d U.N Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said.<\/p>\n
Aid agencies estimate that 10 million people in Kenya, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Uganda and Somalia are at risk of famine.\n\n\n\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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