More than 2,700 families displaced from parts of Bakol have settled in a new IDP camp on the outskirts of Hudur in the past two weeks.
Speaking to Radio Ergo, Adan Abdi Abarey, Hudur deputy district commissioner, said the IDPs had been displaced by insecurity and food crisis in parts of the region.
They pitched makeshift houses in the new camp and cited insecurity and acute food shortages as the main reason that forced them to flee their homes, according to Radio Ergo’s local reporter, who visited them in the camp.
It is feared that the new influx will exacerbate already strained living conditions in the town, where the ongoing blockade of access roads by al-Shabab has affected movement of goods.
Fadumo Ahmed Abdi, a mother of nine, fled from Kulan Jareer village, 45 km west of Hudur. She told Radio Ergo’s local reporter she left her area due to severe shortage of food.
Another mother of eight children, Dahaba Hassan, 60, said she fled from her village of Busley, west of Bakol, on 19 April due to a combination of insecurity and lack of food.
“I came here to get food and security. I can’t explain how bad our situation was,” she said, as she prepared food, given to her by her IDP neighbours, for her children.
