At least 110 people, most of them women and children, have died from starvation and drought-related illness in Somalia in the past 48 hours, CNN reported on Saturday.
According to Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire, “the drought response committee briefed the PM about the humanitarian crises in the country that is threatening the lives of the people and their livestock who are on the brink of dying from hunger and watery diarrhea disease,” Khaire’s office said.
Khaire has urged “business people and everyone to contribute to the drought response efforts aimed at saving the lives of the millions of Somalis dying of hunger and lack of water.”
A Somali woman walks through a camp of people displaced from their homes elsewhere in the country by the drought, shortly after dawn in Qardho, Somalia.
Internally displaced Somali people gather around a water point at a settlement camp in Hodan district.
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Dead goats are piled up outside a refugee camp in Somalia.
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The river in Garowe, Somalia, has dried up.
Displaced Somali mother Sahra Muse, 32, comforts her malnourished child Ibrahim Ali, 7, in their makeshift shelter at a camp in the Garasbaley area on the outskirts of Mogadishu, Somalia.
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