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Viewing cable 07ADDISABABA3407, ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S VISIT TO THE OGADEN: URGENT

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07ADDISABABA3407 2007-11-28 11:58 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED Embassy Addis Ababa
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 03 ADDIS ABABA 003407 
 
SIPDIS 
 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: PHUM EAID PGOV ET
SUBJECT: ADMINISTRATOR FORE'S VISIT TO THE OGADEN: URGENT 
NEED FOR MORE FOOD DISTRIBUTION POINTS AND MALNUTRITION 
INCREASES 
 
Summary 
------- 
 
1. USAID Administrator and Director of U.S. Foreign 
Assistance Henrietta Fore and Assistant Administrator 
Almquist visited Gode November 25, meeting with NGOs and 
local Government officials.  Local officials said that the 
two major developments since the September 7 visit to Gode by 
Assistant Secretary Frazer were the need for trucks and money 
to pay for transportation of food to secondary distribution 
sites, and the increase in malnutrition with the number of 
children requiring therapeutic feeding at the Gode hospital 
increasing from three children per week in September to ten 
per week at present.  World Food Program (WFP) staff report 
that while 9,000 metric tons have been delivered to district 
warehouses in the past few weeks, a positive response from 
the Government, it is estimated that 52,000 metric tons is 
needed to feed 800,000 people in the region of 4 million 
people for the period October-December 2007.  WFP anticipates 
that emergency food assistance will be required beyond 
December to May or June of next year.  Local officials urge 
the NGOs to continue their intervention by providing 
emergency food deliveries indefinitely to prevent this 
chronically food deficit region from falling back into severe 
food shortage conditions.  End Summary. 
 
2. The Director of U.S. Foreign Assistance and USAID 
Administrator Henrietta Fore, accompanied by Assistant 
Administrator Kate Almquist, Special Assistant Barbara 
Feinstein, USAID Director Glenn Anders, Senator Feingold's 
legislative assistant Sara Margon, and Ambassador (notetaker) 
visited Gode in the Ogaden region on November 25, 2007.  In a 
meeting with local officials, the regional governor, Abdi 
Farah, outlined two problems for the Administrator: 1) the 
urgent need for more trucks and money for transporting food 
throughout the Gode region, and 2) the rise in severe 
malnutrition of children requiring therapeutic feeding.  The 
Governor explained that while food was reaching the &primary 
distribution point8 of Gode town, more trucks and money to 
pay for transportation were urgently required to deliver food 
to &secondary distribution points8 and beyond.  Governor 
Abdi's advisor, Sheikh Omar, noted that the rural populace 
did not have camels or animals to help transport food and it 
was impossible for the rural populace to walk hundreds of 
kilometers to pick up food at the &primary distribution 
point8.  The Disaster Prevention and Preparedness Agency 
(DPPA) representative, Abdi Mahmoud, added that 
transportation was insufficient and urged the U.S. delegation 
to help secure more trucks and money to pay for 
transportation. 
 
3. The Governor's advisor noted that malnutrition rates have 
increased sharply since September, when Assistant Secretary 
Frazer visited Gode.  The Advisor said that the number of 
children requiring therapeutic feeding at Gode hospital as a 
result of severe malnutrition increased from three children 
per week to ten.  Throughout the region, it is estimated that 
there has been a tripling of severe malnutrition of children. 
 They were not able to provide any estimates on mortality 
rates, though suspected that rates of death among children 
have risen, but noted that causes range from malaria and 
other diseases to malnutrition, all common causes for this 
region.  All of the officials agreed that food distribution 
beyond Gode town was urgently required to meet the problem. 
Governor Abdi told the U.S. delegation that the region is 
chronically food insecure and that ongoing assistance is 
needed even after the current emergency is brought under 
control.  He urged the Administrator to continue indefinitely 
food intervention efforts by the humanitarian community as a 
solution to prevent malnutrition.  The Advisor, Sheikh Omar, 
said the long-term answer was for the pastoralists to 
transition to farming.  This process has already begun, but 
the advisor and governor said that farm tools, training, and 
support are needed. 
 
4. In a separate meeting with NGOs and UN agencies operating 
in the area, all funded by USAID, the common plea was for 
more food and more rapid distribution.  World Food Program 
Director Mohammed Diab said 9,000 metric tons were delivered 
to district warehouses in the past week and thanked the 
Embassy's efforts to work with the Federal Government to 
speed up deliveries.  But, Diab noted, 52,000 metric tons of 
food were required to meet the needs of 600,000 in the 
 
ADDIS ABAB 00003407  002 OF 003 
 
 
"restricted" Ogaden region and another 200,000 in the 
&unrestricted8 areas in the other parts of Ethiopia's 
Somali region.  The current intervention was expected to last 
through December, but Diab said probably through May or June 
is more realistic. 
 
5. Diab said that the government has agreed to 174 food 
distribution points in the restricted area.  WFP believes 
that no military escort is needed for 86 sites and is working 
with the Federal Government for approval.  Military escorts 
will be necessary to deliver food to the 88 sites where 
counter insurgency operations make it dangerous for 
distribution to take place.  WFP did admit that with the 
start of military escorts, reports of &leakage8 or 
disappearance of food has been eliminated.  But the problem 
is that food deliveries are much slower. 
 
6. Other NGOs confirmed the critical need to get more food 
into the region and confirmed the reports by local officials 
on the need to distribute the food to secondary distribution 
points and beyond.  UNHCR reported that they have been asked 
to leave the Ogaden region.  Their local representative 
reported that as many as 18,000 refugees from Somalia have 
fled into the Ogaden to escape the fighting in Somalia.  The 
Kenyan border remains closed and so Somali refugees are 
finding it difficult to get refuge.  UNHCR said there were 
internally displaced people, but had no statistics on 
internal population movements.  The local governor noted that 
people from Fik had moved into Gode to escape the fighting. 
The NGOs said that the livestock market has collapsed, with 
an exchange of one sheep for one bag of rice three months ago 
to three sheep now required to secure one bag of rice. 
 
COMMENT 
------- 
 
7. The remarks from local officials were sharper and more 
urgent since the visit in September of the Assistant 
Secretary.  The Embassy, in conjunction with USAID plans to 
 
SIPDIS 
continue working with GOE officials on problems in the 
Ogaden.  It was agreed in a meeting with the Prime Minister 
that we would share information to ensure that accurate 
information was being obtained on the Ogaden.  The Ambassador 
plans to host another regular meeting of the NGOs, UN 
agencies and donor groups, and follow-up directly with the 
Prime Minister on what needs to be done to alleviate issues 
in the Ogaden.  In response to her meeting with the Prime 
Minister, Administrator Fore will make the following points 
to the Prime Minister: 
 
-- We still receive reports from the NGOs that Ethiopian 
National Defense Force check points continues to cause delays 
of food deliveries into the Somali region of Ethiopia. 
 
-- The key to assisting the Somali region is encouraging 
expanded commercial livestock and food trade. 
 
-- The Ethiopian government agency in charge of food 
distribution, DPPA, reports that more trucks and money to pay 
for transportation of food is urgently needed for Ethiopia's 
Somali region. 
 
-- DPPA and local officials in Gode report that food 
deliveries to the &primary8 distribution point of Gode town 
-- and to the other district centers -- must be extended to 
&secondary8 distribution points and other areas because 
affected people do not have camels or animals to carry 
distributed food and no way to walk the many kilometers to 
reach district centers to get food. 
 
-- We urge the Ethiopian Government to allow the World Food 
Program to deliver food without military escort to the 86 
distribution points in the security area which are not high 
risk.  We understand that this is being considered by the 
Ethiopian Government.  WFP requires military escort service 
for the other points in the &restricted area8 due to 
security concerns.  We hope that more military escorts can be 
arranged as some food aid has been in district centers for a 
week awaiting military escort to distribution points. 
 
-- From my visit to Gode, more food is required for the 
primary distribution points. 9,000 metric tons have been 
delivered recently and the WFP estimates that 52,000 metric 
 
ADDIS ABAB 00003407  003 OF 003 
 
 
tons will probably be needed for the 800,000 people at risk. 
 
-- USAID and the Embassy look forward to working with the 
Government of Ethiopia on a development plan for the Somali 
region of Ethiopia. 
YAMAMOTO