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.
A man walks past the carcass of sheep that died from the El Nino-related drought in Marodijeex town of southern Hargeysa, in northern Somalia.A man walks past the carcass of sheep that died from the El Nino-related drought in Marodijeex town of southern Hargeysa, in northern Somalia.
The research, led by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, found that half the deaths were children younger than 5 and that the crisis could prove worse than Somalia’s last major drought in 2017 and 2018. “These results present a grim picture of the devastation brought on children and their families by the drought,” Wafaa Saeed, the United Nations children’s agency representative said while presenting the report in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu.
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