Somaliland drought victims’ plea: ‘Without help now, we’ll all be finished’

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This doctor says medical supplies are desperately needed. Credit: ITV News

ITV News International Affairs Editor Rageh Omaar has travelled across Somaliland as severe drought brings the unrecognised east-African nation to the brink of a preventable humanitarian catastrophe.

Rushed into a basic hospital built over 70 years ago, overworked doctors were able to give the three-and-a-half-year-old the medication he needed after he developed Meningitis.

He was one of three new malnourished children admitted to this hospital in Somaliland over a 24-hour period.

And as strange it may sound, Sudesi could be classed as one of the lucky ones.

At the moment more than one and a half million people in Somaliland stand on the edge of famine. They are on the brink… READ MORE

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