Nearly eight million Somalis, or half the population, have been affected by the record-breaking drought, and the Somali authorities are scrambling to avert famine. As thousands of people flee starvation in the countryside to displaced camps in the city, Baidoa, the largest city in Somalia’s South West state, is bearing the brunt. As Mohamed Sheikh Nor reports from Baidoa, Somalia, relief organisations and authorities are pleading for foreign help to stop further loss of life
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