AMN
Somalia’s Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khaire has announced the deaths of at least 110 people due to hunger and diarrhoea in the country over the past 48 hours amid a drought in the Bay region, the southwest part of the country.
The Somalian government had already declared the drought as a national disaster on Tuesday.
The drought has led to a spread of acute diarrhoea, cholera and measles and nearly 5.5 million people are at risk of contracting waterborne diseases.
A local government official said, cholera outbreak has killed at least 69 since yesterday and more than 70 others have been hospitalised.
UN experts have sounded a warning on deaths related to cholera and other diseases that arise from a lack of clean water.