The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) is warning that malnutrition among children in Somalia has significantly risen.
The agency says the humanitarian situation in the country remains precarious as a result of fighting between government forces and insurgents and because of drought in Central Somalia.
ICRC spokesperson Nicole Engelbrecht says the cases of severe malnutrition have more than doubled in some regions, especially in Southern and Central Somalia.
"In some areas of central Somalia it's up to 30 per cent. In the clinics we support in central and southern Somalia, the Somali Red Crescent identified 115 cases in February and in April the number of cases was up to 350. So it's quite alarming. It's a recurrent phenomenon at this time of the year at the peak of the dry season. But it seems that it is going beyond what we've seen before."
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