36 children starve to death in Somalia

[Bilal Mahmud المكافح المخلص]

36 children starve to death in Somalia

A Somali child standing in the rubble of a destroyed building near a refugee camp

At least 36 more children in Somalia's southern town of Dhobley have died because of an unrelenting famine caused by country's worst drought in decades.

The children died in less than 20 hours in Dhobley's refugee camps, set up near the Kenyan borders, a press TV correspondent reported on Tuesday.

Reports coming out of Somalia say several children were buried while hundreds of others struggling with hunger and different diseases are on the verge of death.

Meanwhile, more than 10,000 women and children have been facing lack of water since the past two weeks in the city of Afmadow, in Somalia's drought-stricken south.

The number of children who have died in Dhobley and Afmadow hits 51 and thousands of others are facing lack of water, food and shelters.

More than 29,000 children under the age of five have died of hunger over the past three months in southern Somalia.

According to reports, an estimated 3.7 million people in Somalia -- around a third of the population -- are on the brink of starvation.

Meanwhile, millions of people in Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Uganda have been affected by the worst drought in the region in 60 years.

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