Halima Hassan Abdullahi points at the graves of her daughter's twins Ebla and Abdia, who died of hunger, May 25, 2022.Halima Hassan Abdullahi points at the graves of her daughter's twins Ebla and Abdia, who died of hunger, May 25, 2022.
“She is malnourished and her two babies died of hunger,” Abdullahi said at the Kaxareey camp which sprang up in January and now houses 13 000 people.After rains failed for four consecutive seasons, the worst drought in 40 years has shrivelled their beans and maize and dotted scrubland with the corpses of their goats and donkeys.
She has not seen anything like it since the early 1990s when a famine helped trigger a disastrous US military intervention in Somalia that ended notoriously with the shooting down of a Black Hawk helicopter. Her family had never had to leave their land before, she said. Getting food out fast meant that a drought in 2017 – worse than the one that caused the 2011 famine – cost under 1 000 lives.The UN plan to provide emergency aid is only 15% funded.
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