MSF Somalia: Drought Crisis for Baidoa's displaced

Country: Somalia Source: Médecins Sans Frontières 27 July 2026 - "My wife would stand in a line for water from early in the morning until eight at night,” says Dahir Nur, 50, a former farmer now living in Elbeti 1 camp in Baidoa after drought forced his family from their village. Baidoa, the interim capital of Somalia's Southwest State, is now home to an estimated 1.6 million people, nearly half of them are displaced. Many have arrived in recent months, fleeing conflict and climate shocks in Bakool, Bay, Lower Shab