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Somali Famine
Famine in Somalia may refer to: *1992 famine in Somalia, which killed 300,000 people in Somalia *2011 East Africa drought, which killed 260,000 people in Somalia {{set index Somalia Somalia, , Osmanya script: ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐; ar, ุงูุตูู ุงู, aแนฃ-แนขลซmฤl officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe ''Federal Republic of Somalia'' is the country's name per Article 1 of thProvisional Constituti ... History of Somalia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1992 Famine In Somalia
The 1992 famine in Somalia was a famine in southern Somalia directly connected with the Somali Civil War. An estimated 220,000 - 300,000 people died during the famine. After United Nations efforts to end the famine failed, the United States sent in troops to provide security for relief groups, and the famine largely subsided by March 1993. The crisis was caused by a severe drought and fighting over the fertile inter-riverine areas around the Jubba and Shebelle rivers. Causes and contributing factors After President Siad Barre had been ejected from Mogadishu by Aidids forces in January 1991, Barres troops withdrew to the south of the city into Somalia's fertile breadbasket. Lacking supplies of their own, Barres forces ravaged the grain stores of inter-riverine agricultural belt around the Jubba and Shebelle rivers. This dire food supply situation was further exacerbated by fighting between Barre and rebels, the most powerful of which were led by General Mohamed Farah Aidid, who w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2011 East Africa Drought
Occurring between July 2011 and mid-2012, a severe drought affected the entire East African region. > Said to be "the worst in 60 years", the drought caused a severe food crisis across Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia and Kenya that threatened the livelihood of 9.5 million people. Many refugees from southern Somalia fled to neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia, where crowded, unsanitary conditions together with severe malnutrition led to a large number of deaths. Other countries in East Africa, including Sudan, South Sudan and parts of Uganda, were also affected by a food crisis. According to FAO-Somalia, the food crisis in Somalia primarily affected farmers in the south rather than the northern pastoralists. Human Rights Watch (HRW) consequently noted that most of the displaced persons belonged to the agro-pastoral Rahanweyn clan and the agricultural Bantu ethnic minority group. On 20 July, the United Nations officially declared famine in two regions in the southern part of the country (IPC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Famines In Africa
A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, population imbalance, widespread poverty, an economic catastrophe or government policies. This phenomenon is usually accompanied or followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality. Every inhabited continent in the world has experienced a period of famine throughout history. In the 19th and 20th century, generally characterized Southeast and South Asia, as well as Eastern and Central Europe, in terms of having suffered most number of deaths from famine. The numbers dying from famine began to fall sharply from the 2000s. Since 2010, Africa has been the most affected continent of famine in the world. Definitions According to the United Nations World Food Programme, famine is declared when malnutrition is widespread, and when people have started dying of starvation through lack of access to sufficient,ย nutritious food. The Integ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
