More than a quarter of a million people died — half of them children — in Somalia's last famine in 2011. Now it's preparing to cope with another. Aid groups say the international community needs to act before it's too late.
Famine at phase 5 is the highest on the scale and is defined "as an extreme deprivation of food."At least 20% of an area's households are facing an extreme lack of food;Two people out of every 10,000 are dying every day due to starvation or the combination of malnutrition and disease.classifies a famine, it's up to relevant stakeholders to make a formal declaration.
This was the case for hundreds of thousands of people in parts of Ethiopia's Tigrey region last year and for tens of thousands inThe IPC in recent years also adopted a "famine likely" classification, which is often used when data about food insecurity is scarce, but the available data indicates a famine is occurring or likely occurring.A number of famines occurred prior to the start of the IPC system, including the 1992 Somalia famine that killed an estimated 220,000 people.
in the Bay Region's Baidoa and Burkhaba districts, as well as in displaced populations in Baidoa settlements of southern Somalia unless aid is significantly scaled up, the latest
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