Food Crisis Is Claiming Young Lives in Somalia DeutscheWelle: Somalia
Somalia's people who have been displaced by drought are being housed across some 600 camps in and around the southwestern city of Baidoa.Children are starving to death in Somalia where roughly half the population needs food urgently. The situation is being fueled by climate change and made much worse by Islamist extremists.
"She came with severe acute malnutrition, in a critical condition. We just call it 'shock'. She's a terminal case."Amina's mother and aunt have lost three children between them this year. The United Nations says a severely malnourished child is admitted to hospital every minute of every day on average.. Fear that a fifth consecutive failed rainy season is upon the country is growing. More than 7 million people are in need of food assistance.
At Banadir Hospital, one man is sitting with his two-month-old baby girl. The child is called Ruqiyo but he prefers not to see his own name published, the man says.took over his land, he fled."They bother people a lot. They take your livestock and they want you to join them. They were telling us to join the fighting. And at the same time our livestock was perishing because of the drought.
Some 240 kilometres away in the Bay region, most of Somali's 1.6 million newly displaced people have found shelter from the drought and conflict. They made their way to the regional capital Baidoa and the areas around to escape the drought and conflict,Hundreds of improvised camps are spread around the city of 800,000 to accomodate almost the same amount of displaced people. Baidao Mayor Abdullahi Ali Watiin says the camps are expected to house up to 1 million people by the end of the year.
The UN Children's Fund says that so far this year, 964 children died in Somalia, nearly twice as many as in 2021. UN agencies have scaled up their efforts, according to the Somalia UNICEF representative Wafaa Saeed."But this is not enough because this climate crisis is a protracted situation. We need to invest in prevention. We need to support these families in defence of their livelihoods."
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