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Mongabay: A new report estimates that 258,000 people died in 2011 during a famine in Somalia, the worst of such events in 25 years and a number at least double the highest estimations during the crisis. Over half of the victims, around 133,000, were children five and under. The report, by the UN Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), argues that the international community reacted too late and too little to stem the mass starvation brought on by government instability, conflict, high food prices, and failed......
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‘Suffering…without witnesses’: over a quarter of million people perished in Somali famine
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on May 6th, 2013
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