About 80 farming families from Bay and Bakol regions have left their homes seeking assistance in Baidoa, because of food shortages in their villages.
The families originated from villages including Oflow, Hafata, Tuger-hoos and Gof gaduud in both regions. These villages are known to be agricultural areas where people normally are dependent on their crops.
They have joined thousands of others who have already left their farms in the last days and weeks, and crowded into IDP camps in Baidoa, the regional capital of Bay.
Fartun Aden Abdi moved with five of her children to Baidoa from Tuger hos village near Bakol’s Dinsor village. “We haven’t received sufficient rains for years and the crops we planted this season have been eaten by birds,” Abdi told Radio Ergo’s local reporter in Baidoa.
Another mother of six children, Habibo Ali Hassan,from Oflow village, 70 km south of Baidoa, said she was struggling to feed her children alone as her husband had died. “I couldn’t get food for my children as we harvested nothing from the farmlands,” Hassan told Radio Ergo. “We came here in the hope of getting aid,” she added.
