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The Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General (SRSG) for Somalia, Michael Keating, concluded a two-day visit to Somaliland to assess the impact of the prolonged drought on its population.
PRESS STATEMENT 04/2017
It took Fatuma Abdi Ahmed four days to hike from Kunturwaareey district in Lower Shabelle region of the South West State of Somalia, to Mogadishu fleeing the ongoing drought which has affected thousands of families in Somalia. She fled with five children, after losing two to hunger.
Nalo Nuura Musdhaf, 26, could not bear the pain of losing one of her children to hunger and had to flee her home in Maayla-Murug, in Lower Shabelle region, before another one died.
MICHAEL KEATING SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE OF THE SECRETARY-GENERAL FOR SOMALIA
BRIEFING TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL ON SOMALIA
AS DELIVERED
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Volunteers and workers at Baidoa Airport offload medical supplies from an airplane that delivered medical supplies donated by Turkey for internally displaced persons in Baidoa, Somalia, on 22 March 2017. UN Photo
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Vincent Lelei, the Deputy Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, speaks at a ceremony to open a Drought Operations Coordination Center in Baidoa, Somalia, on 19 March, 2017. UN Photo.
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