5 million in Somalia don’t get enough food, UN report says

Somali young girl cooks food outside their makeshift home inside a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. A new U.N. report says five million people, more than 40 percent of the population in Somalia, are not getting enough food, on the chaotic Horn of Africa. The report released Tuesday says the number of people who are food insecure has increased by 300,000 since February. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh) Somali young girl cooks food outside their makeshift home inside a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday, Sept. 20, 2016. A new U.N. report says five million people, more than 40 percent of the population in Somalia, are not getting enough food, on the chaotic Horn of Africa. The report released Tuesday says the number of people who are food insecure has increased by 300,000 since February. (AP Photo/Farah Abdi Warsameh)

By Associated Press September 20, 2016 3 min read

MOGADISHU, Somalia (AP) – Tears filled Amina Nur’s eyes as she cuddled her frail-looking child with a sunken chest.

She and her family returned to Somalia five months ago after several years in a refugee camp in neighboring Kenya, but she regrets that now.

“We decided to return home voluntarily, but that was a wrong decision,” the mother of six said. “The small money they gave us ran out, and since then we have no assistance to survive.”

Nur is among thousands of Somalis who fled at the height of a devastating famine which killed over half a million people in this Horn of Africa nation in 2013.

But now they are hungry again.