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The World Food Programme's (WFP) Assistant Executive Director, Valerie Guarnieri, speaking from Rome during a UN briefing says that "27 million people have been affected by the El Nino-induced drought" in South Africa adding that almost four million children are suffering from "acute malnutrition". SOUNDBITE
Visiting UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres appeals for "massive" international support for Somalia as it battles a devastating drought and a grinding Islamist insurgency. SOUNDBITE
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres arrives with Somali Prime Minister Hassan Sheikh Mohamud for a press conference in Mogadishu to kick off a brief visit to Somalia, a country scarred by protracted armed conflict and climate disasters. IMAGES
Gunfire can be heard near a hotel that was stormed by Al-Shabaab militants. Somali security forces have been engaged in an hours-long siege which has left eight civilians dead, according to a spokesperson for the national police. IMAGES
People clear rubble looking for bodies a day after two bombings killed 100 people in the Somali capital Mogadishu, in an attack claimed by Al-Shabaab Islamists. IMAGES
The World Health Organisation remains "deeply concerned about the situation in the Sahel and the Greater Horn of Africa, and particularly in Somalia" says Director General, Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. Speaking at a WHO press conference on Covid-19, Monkeypox and other issues in Geneva, Tedros says "it is likely that many people have already starved to death". SOUNDBITE
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