Nairobi, Jumada I 13, 1438, Feb 10, 2017, SPA -- A major drought in Somalia is forcing tens of thousands of people to leave their homes in search of food, water and grazing lands for their animals, charity Save the Children said Friday. "Conditions are the driest they've been in decades and the landscape is peppered with goat carcasses,"  Hassan Noor Saadi, Save the Children's country director in Somalia, said in a statement. "In some places, we're now seeing dead camels - normally a grim precursor to a loss in human life," Noor Saadi said. In light of the conditions, the United Nations issued a pre-famine alert for Somalia earlier this month, saying more than 6 million people face acute food insecurity. According to dpa, some 71,000 children already are severely malnourished and "at risk of death," with more than 360,000 children under age 5 acutely malnourished, according to Save the Children. --SPA 13:40 LOCAL TIME 10:40 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w329591