Hundreds of people in Somalia have been affected by a new outbreak of cholera in the Bay and Bakol regions, about three-hundred kilometres south-west of the capital, Mogadishu.

Health authorities in one area Dinsor district say thirty-one people have died from cholera in the past three days alone.

Aid agencies and the Somali Red Crescent Society have set up quarantine units in health centres.

The regions of Bay and Bakol are among several parts of Somalia also stricken by drought.

A BBC correspondent who visited one town Wajwd in south-west Somalia says there's such a shortage of food that special high-protein rations meant for a severely malnourished child are routinely being used by an entire family.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service