Somalia warns 6.5 million face acute hunger due to drought

MOGADISHU: About 6.5 million people in Somalia ‌face acute hunger due to drought, the government and the United Nations said on Tuesday, sounding the alarm days after the UN’s food agency warned ​that food aid could grind to a halt by April without new funding. Somalia declared a national drought emergency in November after years of failed rains, and other countries in the region have also been hit. More than a third of those facing acute malnutrition are children, Somalia’s government and the United Nations Somalia said in a joint statement.

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