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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Alastair Jamieson

Somalia drought: 43,000 people die in a year and half are children under five

AP

An estimated 43,000 Somalis died during the country’s longest ever drought last year, half of them likely to have been children under five years old, according to a new report.

It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa.

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