UN says part of Somalia will reach famine later this year

A camp for the displaced on the outskirts of Mogadishu (AP)

The United Nations has said “famine is at the door” in Somalia, with “concrete indications” it will occur later this year in the southern Bay region.

This falls just short of a formal famine declaration in Somalia as thousands of people are dying in a historic drought made worse by the effects of the war in Ukraine.