b_179_129_16777215_00_images_AFR151515aa002.jpegAfter a long search for food, 12-year-old Abubakar took a break recently under a dry mango tree to escape the scorching sun in the southern Gedo region of Somalia, near the Kenyan border.

“I was looking for anything to eat,” he said. “I hadn’t eaten anything for the past few days. We had been eating in school but now there’s no food. I have been forced to leave school and look for food.”

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