The situation is much worse for children, as several were already dead from hunger-related illnesses.
Somali forces and allied militias have pushed al Shabaab fighters out of a strategic town in central Somalia that the Islamist group controlled for six years.
“There is still heavy gunfire inside the hotel, and we hear explosions from time to time.”
The posts were made mainly during the U.S. East Coast business hours and in Arabic, Farsi and Russian.
At least 121 people were killed and 333 injured, according to Somalia’s health ministry. The majority were civilians.
UN agencies and partners on Monday called for greater support to prevent famine in the Horn of Africa, the region home to Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia.
The UN said the last eight years had been the warmest on record, fuelled by ever-rising greenhouse gas concentrations and accumulated heat.
Impoverished nations in Africa will be given priority regarding new grain shipments from Ukraine, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan says.
The toll is expected to rise in the country’s deadliest attack since a truck bombing at the same spot five years ago killed more than 500.
President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud said on Sunday that the death toll could rise.
