The severe drought has killed 43,000 people in Somalia, half of them children
Somalia experienced its longest drought on record in 2022, with drought and war killing an estimated 43,000 people, half of them children.
The crisis is far from over, with 18,000 to 34,000 people expected to die from famine in the first six months of this year.
Somalia and neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya missed six consecutive rainy seasons.
Somalia has a population of more than 15 million, but more than 6 million people are starving.
The 2011 famine in Somalia killed 250,000 people, but some humanitarian and climate officials warned that the situation is worse now than in 2011.
Millions of livestock have also been killed in the current famine.
Heaven and earth are unkind, all things are dogs, and human beings are unrighteous, making living beings like grass and mustard.
Kazucha Kobayashi: I know that the world is as short as dew, but yet, however...
But why is it so cruel!
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