An aid group is warning that more than 20,000 children in drought-hit Somalia could starve to death in the coming months without continued international assistance. Save the Children said Thursday that the number of cases of severe acute malnutrition has "skyrocketed" in several of the nine Somali districts assessed. The aid group says that without USD 1.5 billion in assistance, Somalia could face a hunger crisis as severe as the one in 2011, when famine killed more than a quarter- million people. Half of the victims were children. (This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)

Source: dna June 29, 2017 11:48 UTC