The world will “pay a price” if it ignores the plight of Somalia, British Prime Minister David Cameron said today.

ERITREA has rejected Kenyan suspicions that it may be arming Islamist al Shabaab rebels in Somalia, as a diplomatic row between the two countries intensifies.

Somalia’s deadly chaos is spreading across the border into Kenya, where dry land is no longer a refuge from the hostage takers who infest the failed state to the north, explains Margot Kiser.

A CHOLERA epidemic is spreading in famine-hit Somalia, with alarming numbers of cases among people driven to the capital Mogadishu by a lack of food and water, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said.

The UN declared three new regions in Somalia famine zones yesterday, expanding the area where the highest rates ofmalnutrition and mortality are taking place, including the refugee camps in the capital, Mogadishu.