Nearly four million children are at risk of dropping out of school due to the drought in the Horn of Africa, the United Nations has warned, amid fears that it could lead to “a lost generation”.
Women and girls in Somalia face a double crisis of endemic sexual violence and hunger caused by the country's worst drought in four decades, a UK-based children's rights advocacy group warned on Wednesday. “As is so often the case, girls and women are bearing the brunt of this heartbreaking crisis,”…