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| A boy drinks at a manmade dam in drought ravaged Somalia. REUTERS/Thomas Mukoya |
War and anarchy has uprooted hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia, which has been controlled by feuding clans for 15 years. The worst drought in a decade has left around 1.7 million people in need of help.
- Some 400,000 people are displaced within Somalia, half of them in squatter camps in Mogadishu.
- Nearly a quarter of children die before their fifth birthday.
- Clan militias enlist boys to fight.
- Female genital mutilation is widespread.
- Children are trafficked to South Africa, Middle East and Europe.
To find out more see our Somalia crisis briefing.
