110 dead from hunger in past 48 hours in drought stat : The Telegraph

Somalia's prime minister said on Saturday that 110 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region - the first death toll announced in a severe drought threatening millions of people across the country. Prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire spoke during a meeting with the Somali National Drought Committee. The death toll he announced is from the Bay region in the southwest part of the country alone. Somalia's government declared the drought a national disaster on Tuesday. The United Nations estimates that 5 million people in this Horn of Africa nation need aid, amid warnings of a full-blown famine.




At least 110 people have died of hunger and water-borne diseases in southwestern regions of Bay and BakolMohammed DhaysaneMOGADISHU, SomaliaAt least 110 people have died of hunger and water-borne diseases in the last 48 hours in Somalia's southwestern regions of Bay and Bakol, Somalia's prime minister said on Saturday afternoon. "I have informed today that at least 110 people, mainly children, have died in the last 48 hours in the Bay and Bakol regions because of hunger and water-borne diseases such as cholera outbreak," Khaire said. In a news conference in Mogadishu, Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire revealed that at least 110 people had died in the past two days. The International Organization for Migration (IOM) on Tuesday called for urgent action to help over 20 million people facing famine in South Sudan, Somalia, Yemen and northeastern Nigeria. On Feb. 28, Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo said that the East African nation was suffering from a severe drought.


In the last 48 hours 110 people died due to famine and diarrhea in Bay region," Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire's office said in a statement. In February, United Nations children's agency UNICEF said the drought in Somalia could lead to up to 270,000 children suffering from severe acute malnutrition this year. MOGADISHU - Some 110 people have died in southern Somalia in the last two days from famine and diarrhea resulting from a drought, the prime minister said on Saturday, as the area braces itself for widespread shortages of food. Some people have been hit by famine and diarrhea at the same time. "It is a difficult situation for the pastoralists and their livestock.



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