A mother cradles her malnourished and dehydrated baby at Banadir Hospital in the Somali capital, Mogadishu. UN spokesman Stephane Dujarric has said malnutrition rates are rapidly escalating due to the drought conditions and 954,000 children are anticipated to be acutely malnourished, including 174,600 children who are severely malnourished.

First published in the May 02, 2019, 8:33 p.m. edition

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