联合国表示，自从5月份伊斯兰激进分子与政府军的战斗激化以来，大约有22万3千人逃离了索马里首都摩加迪沙。联合国的难民机构星期二报告说，仅在前两个星期就有2万索马里平民逃离了摩加迪沙。
发言人雷德蒙对平民大批进入摩加的沙西南的阿夫戈耶走廊的临时避难所感到担忧。这个避难所已经接纳了以前冲突中的40万难民。
雷德蒙还表示，这个星期对联合国在拜多阿和瓦吉德馆舍的洗劫使联合国对这两个地区的救援工作几乎陷于停滞。索马里青年党的暴乱分子星期一突袭了这两处设施。在那之前，他们曾表示，要关闭联合国在索马里的三个机构。
The United Nations says about 223,000 people have fled Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, since fighting between Islamist militants and the government intensified in May.The U.N. refugee agency reported Tuesday that 20,000 Somali civilians have fled in the last two weeks alone.
Spokesperson Ron Redmond expressed concern about the huge numbers of displaced people seeking refuge at makeshift sites in the Afgooye corridor, southwest of the capital. He said the site lacks adequate shelter, sanitation facilities and clean drinking water.The site already hosts 400,000 refugees from previous conflicts.
Redmond also said this week’s looting of U.N. compounds in Baidoa and Wajid have virtually halted United Nations’ aid efforts in those areas.Somalia’s al-Shabab insurgents raided the compounds on Monday, after saying they would shut down the Somali operations of three U.N. agencies.