Posted to the web 20 August 2008 Hargeisa A ministerial committee in Somalia's self-declared autonomous region of Somaliland has started discussions on ways of resolving a food crisis worsened by runaway inflation in the country. "We are here to search for solutions to the recent inflation and the food crisis facing the nation this year," Ali Mohamed Waran'adde, the civil aviation minister and chairman of the select committee, said at a news conference in Hargesia, the region's capital. The committee, comprising nine members of Somaliland's Council of Ministers, held their first closed-door meeting on 13 August. Waran'adde said the committee was looking at ways of improving the country's financial situation and boosting people's livelihoods through increasing income-generating activities. Somaliland has, in the past six...
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