SOMALIA: No longer able to live on 100 dollars a month
IRIN NEWS irinnews.org - Untila few months ago, Safia Jibril was able to feed, clothe and educate hernine children thanks to the US$100 that her husband's brother in thediaspora sent every month. "Six months [ago] it was enough toprovide my family's livelihood but today the price of one sack of ricehas doubled," she said. "Now if I buy one sack of rice and oneof sugar, then I will not have flour, oil or anything to pay mychildren's school fees," she told IRIN in Gabiley village in thewestern suburbs of Hargeisa,...» view full story