Somalia's ongoing record drought killed as many as 43,000 people last year, half of them children under 5, researchers said on Monday in the first attempt to estimate country-wide deaths.
After five consecutive failed rainy seasons, half of Somalia's 17 million people are in urgent need of aid, the United Nations has said, although parts of the country avoided a famine declaration last year that some experts had been expecting.
The rate of fatalities could rise in first half of 2023, the report said, projecting total deaths for this period at between 18,100 and 34,200. The Integrated Food Security Phase Classification , which sets the global standard for determining the severity of a food crisis, said last December that famine had been temporarily been averted but warned the situation was getting worse.
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Report: 43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last yearSome 43,000 people died amid the longest drought on record in Somalia last year and half of them likely were children, a new report finds. It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa.
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