Last updated: 5 january, 2010 - 16:54 GMT

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Up to a million people in southern Somalia are facing a serious food shortage.

The UN World Food programme has suspended operations in the area, blaming the move on attacks against its staff, and what it says are unacceptable demands by armed groups.

Focus on Africa's Sophie Ikenye spoke to Peter Smerdon, spokesman for the World Food Programme in Somalia.

She began by asking him whether this meant that the World Food Programme would stop delivering food supplies to an already vulnerable and food aid dependent southern Somalia.

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