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In tonight's edition: Millions of people in Somalia are on the brink of starvation. We speak to Rein Paulsen from the FAO, who is in Somalia meeting with drought-affected communities. Meanwhile, campaigning for Kenya's presidential elections picked up again on Wednesday after a deeply underwhelming presidential debate. And Senegal heads to the polls on Sunday for legislative elections in which 165 seats are up for grabs.
Twenty million people are at risk of starvation this year as delayed rains worsen an already brutal drought in Kenya, Somalia and Ethiopia, the UN warns. A months-long drought has left the Horn of Africa on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe, destroying crops and livestock and forcing huge numbers of people to leave their homes in search of food and water.
As World Water Day is marked, the United Nations says hundreds of millions of children are at risk from inadequate or unsafe drinking water
Over the past decade, Baidoa has grown accustomed to large population influxes. The majority of its population are displaced. Desperate, hungry and thirsty, more and more people are flocking to the city from the countryside of southern Somalia, one of the regions hardest hit by the drought that is engulfing the Horn of Africa.
The driest conditions in decades have left an estimated 13 million people across Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia facing severe hunger. Experts warn of a below-average rainfall forecast that threatens to worsen and aggravate dire conditions in the coming month.
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