ECOLOGY
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES
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Detailed explanation-1: -Figures compiled by the Department for International Development (DfID) suggest that between 50, 000 and 100, 000 people, more than half of them children under five, died in the 2011 Horn of Africa crisis that affected Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya.
Detailed explanation-2: -In 2010-2011, a devastating drought led to more than 260, 000 deaths beyond normal levels of expected mortality in Somalia.
Detailed explanation-3: -In Somalia, it is the worst hunger crisis in living memory, with the number of people experiencing acute hunger already surpassing the number affected in the famine of 2011, when more than a quarter of a million people died. Almost one in six people in Somalia are now facing extreme hunger.
Detailed explanation-4: -Climate change and drought Over 500, 000 people in Kenya’s Turkana region are facing starvation.