Half of Somalia, including Somaliland, has been hit by the Horn of Africa’s record-breaking drought. The country will experience its worst famine in fifty years, according to the U.N., if further relief does not arrive soon.
Thousands of Somalians are fleeing to neighboring country Kenya,for help as a result of Somalia’s record-breaking drought and hunger.
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.
Severe drought in Somalia is putting over two million people at risk of starvation and forcing thousands out of villages and into a relief camp outside the capital