Amid the worst drought in 40 years, and with global focus on Ukraine, aid agencies and the United Nations are desperate to attract attention to a calamity they say is shaping up to be comparable to Somalia’s 2011 famine. More than a quarter of a million people died then, mostly children under 5.

First published in the May 26, 2022, 8:14 p.m. edition

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