Over 22 million children are left hungry, sick, displaced and out of school in four crisis-torn countries including Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen as a result of drought occasioned by armed conflict, the United Nations Children's Fund, UNICEF, has said.
Nigeria, Somalia, South Sudan and Yemen have been selected by the Government of Canada to benefit from its $119.25 million grant to respond to humanitarian crisis in their respective domains.
The African Union Mission in Somalia, AMISOM, describe Mukhtar's decision to quit fighting as courageous and urged other fighters in the terror group to surrender to authorities.
Somalia's President, Mohamed Abdullahi, said that the over 150,000 Somalis in the US "have contributed to the US economy in different ways, and we have to talk about what the Somali people have contributed rather than a few people who may cause a problem."
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo has declared a state of disaster as the Horn of Africa nation struggles with a severe drought and food crisis.
The United Nations Children Fund, UNICEF, has said that almost 1.4 million children are at risk of death from severe acute malnutrition this year in Nigeria and three other countries.
