Children dying in Somalia as food catastrophe worsens

FILE PHOTO: A general view shows a section of the Al-cadaala camp of the internally displaced people following the famine in Somalia's capital Mogadishu March 6, 2017. REUTERS/Feisal Omar/File Photo

MOGADISHU (Reuters) -More than 200,000 Somalis are suffering catastrophic food shortages and many are dying of hunger, with that number set to rise to over 700,000 next year, according to an analysis by an alliance of U.N. agencies and aid groups.

The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification (IPC), which sets the global standard for determining the severity of food crises, said its most acute level, "IPC Phase 5 Famine", had been temporarily averted but things were getting worse.