Excerpted and translated from Shabelle Media Network
05 January 2011
Ceelwaaq: Towfiiq village located 85 km north to Elwaq district of Gedo region is reported to have experienced severe shortages water that caused breaking out of acute watery diarrhea.
One of inhabitants of tawfiiq village told that 2 children under age 5 passed away as a result of lack of water and break out of diarrhea disease, adding that water source and pasture are very far from areas pastoralists are living in now.
It's envisaged that died children had drunk dirty and contaminated water as they could not negotiate with the extreme dehydration which lead death of the two children.
For the last weeks increasingly appeals have been coming from the elders and normal pastoral and agro pastoral communities whom severely affected by the current droughts which disrupted their livelihoods.
ELias Mohamed
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