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Somalia’s special envoy to the UN sought Wednesday to draw attention to the gravity of the crisis in his destitute country in order to mobilise more aid. Millions of people are at risk of starvation across the Horn of Africa, which is in the grip of the worst drought in four decades after four failed rainy seasons wiped out livestock and crops. “We are here to lobby, to bring your attention to the magnitude of this crisis, the level of humanitarian catastrophe in Somalia,” Abdirahman Abdishakur told AFP. During meetings with UN agencies and member states since the beginning of the week, Abdish…