Somali insurgents block vital famine aid

The European Union has extended by a year its military mission to train Somali's security forces. The announcement came as a U.N. panel reported Eritrea was behind a plot to attack an African Union summit in Ethiopia in January and is bankrolling al Qaeda-linked Somali rebels, al-Shabab, through its embassy in Kenya.

Heavy fighting between government troops and the rebels broke out in the Somali capital Mogadishu, yesterday, a day after the UN World Food Programme airlifted in its first famine emergency aid.

Thousands of Somali refugees fleeing the famine and war have started moving into a new extension of the world's largest refugee camp in Dabaab, Kenya, which was officially declared full in 2008.

Maurice McQuillan is head the emergency team for the Irish Catholic aid agency Trocaire and is in Nairobi at the moment. He recently returned from the Diocese of Lodwar northern Kenya, where he told Susy Hodges that families “are down to one meal a day”. Listen: