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		</div><p>More than 100 people have died from hunger in the past 48 hours in a single region of Somalia, the country&#8217;s prime minister said.</p>
<p>It is the first death toll announced in a severe drought threatening millions of people across the country.<br />
Somalia&#8217;s government declared the drought a national disaster on Tuesday. The United Nations estimates that five million people in the Horn of Africa nation need aid, amid warnings of a full-blown famine.</p>
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<p>The United Kingdom has allocated £100 million to humanitarian funding for Somalia, which is providing emergency food to up to a million people.</p>
<p>The money is also giving life-saving nutritional support to more than 600,000 starving children and pregnant and breastfeeding women, safe drinking water for a million people and emergency healthcare for 1.7 million people.</p>
<p>The death toll of 110 announced by prime minister Hassan Ali Khaire is from the Bay region in the south west of the country.</p>
<p>Somalia was one of four regions singled out by the UN secretary-general last month in an aid appeal to avert catastrophic hunger and famine, along with north-east Nigeria, South Sudan and Yemen.</p>
<p>All are connected by a thread of violent conflict, the UN chief said.</p>
<p>UN humanitarian co-ordinator Stephen O&#8217;Brien is expected to visit Somalia in the next few days.<br />
Thousands have been streaming into the capital Mogadishu in search of food aid, overwhelming local and international aid agencies.</p>
<p>More than 7,000 internally displaced people checked into one feeding centre recently.</p>
<p>The drought is the first crisis for Somalia&#8217;s newly elected Somali-American leader, President Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed.</p>
<p>Previous droughts and a quarter of a century of conflict, including continuing attacks by extremist group al-Shabab, have left the country fragile.</p>
<p>Mr Mohamed has appealed to the international community and Somalia&#8217;s diaspora of two million people for help.</p>
<p>About 363,000 acutely malnourished children in Somalia &#8220;need urgent treatment and nutrition support, including 71,000 who are severely malnourished&#8221;, the US Agency for International Development&#8217;s Famine Early Warning Systems Network has warned.</p>
<p>Because of a lack of clean water in many areas, there is the additional threat of cholera and other diseases, UN experts say. Some deaths from cholera have already been reported.</p>
<p>The government has said the widespread hunger &#8220;makes people vulnerable to exploitation, human rights abuses and to criminal and terrorist networks&#8221;.</p>
<p>The UN humanitarian appeal for 2017 for Somalia is £702 million to provide assistance to 3.9 million people, but the UN World Food Programme recently requested an additional £21 million to respond to the drought.</p>
<p>UK International Development Secretary Priti Patel said: &#8220;More than six million people in Somalia are living in desperate conditions, with the number of people tragically dying from hunger increasing and many more lives threatened.<br />
&#8220;Our message to the international community is clear &#8211; they need to act now and urgently, before it is too late to help stop innocent people starving to death.&#8221;</p>
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