A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children.
Somalia is facing its sixth consecutive year of drought as rising food prices complicate the hunger crisisNearly 500,000 children in Somalia are likely to be severely malnourished this year
Somalia and neighbouring Ethiopia and Kenya are facing a sixth consecutive failed rainy season while rising global food prices complicate the hunger crisis. Famine is the extreme lack of food and a significant death rate from outright starvation or malnutrition combined with diseases like cholera.
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