Almost 260,000 Somalians, half of them young children, died in the last two years, a United Nations report reveals. The report also admits the global body should have done more to prevent the tragedy
Almost 260,000 people, half of them young children, died of hunger during the last famine in Somalia, according to a United Nations report yesterday which admitted the global body should have done more to prevent the tragedy.
The toll is much higher than was feared at the time of the 2010-2012 food crisis in the troubled Horn of Africa country, and also exceeds the 220,000 who starved to death in the 1992 famine. "The report confirms we should have done more before the famine was declared," said Philippe Lazzarini, U.N. Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia. "Warnings that began as far back as the drought in 2010 did not trigger sufficient early action," he said.
Half of those who died were children under five, according to the joint report by the U.N.’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the U.S.-funded Famine Early Warning Systems Network.
"Famine and severe food insecurity in Somalia claimed the lives of about 258,000 people between October 2010 and April 2012, including 133,000 children under five," said the report, the first scientific estimate of how many died. Somalia was the hardest hit by an extreme drought in 2011 that affected over 13 million people across the Horn of Africa.
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