MOGADISHU: The UN Independent Expert on the situation of human rights in Somalia, Bahame Nyanduga, has called on the world to support the Horn of Africa nation to avert humanitarian crisis and its current state-building process. Nyanduga called for unremitting support for Somalia’s state-building process and improvement of the human rights situation in the country, saying Somalia is experiencing one of its worst humanitarian crises following three years of drought. “This drought has come at a time Somalia has not recovered from the effects of the 2011 drought,” he said in a statement issued at the end of his fourth mission to Somalia on Friday night. “I call upon the international community to respond to the appeal for 4.4 billion US dollars to assist Somalia to deal with its biggest humanitarian crisis in history,” he added. “The severe has affected more than half of Somalia’s population, creating an acute food and water shortage, child malnutrition and mortality, and loss of livestock,” said the human rights expert.