Senegal: Not enough aid reaching communities stranded by fighting

Fighting and the planting of lethal landmines in the northwest of Guinea Bissau has isolated some 20,000 people who are struggling to survive on dwindling food reserves and occasional deliveries of food and medicines by canoe. Residents say at least three people have died from treatable illnesses as the sole road that links the farming and fishing communities of Suzana, Varela and the surrounding villages with the nearest hospital about 40 kilometres east in Sao Domingos remains closed and mined after fighting between Senegal rebels and Guinea Bissau troops.