BAARDHERE, Somalia, July 24 (UPI) -- The Red Cross says it has delivered enough food for 24,000 people to last about 30 days to Baardhere, northeast of the capital of Mogadishu, Somalia.
However, a World Food Program spokesman said another 2.2 million Somalis are starving and face death because the militant group al-Shabaab is preventing the flow of aid, the BBC reported Sunday.
The Red Cross delivered beans, rice and oil Saturday and was expanding its efforts to other areas, officials said.
"We are able to reach about 1.5 million people in Somalia but there is about 2.2 million that are not being able to be reached directly by humanitarian workers," WFP Executive Director Josette Sheeran said.
Al-Shabaab Saturday said it was allowing some aid groups to work in Somalia, including Medecins Sans Frontiers and the Red Cross, but not the WFP.
