Disaster in Somalia: U.N. reports 258,000 die in famine and extremist violence This week, CNN reported a study just released by a U.N. led group that estimates a staggering number of people have continued to perish in the country of Somalia in their attempt to find food and water. The catastrophic drama of famine-driven deaths has continued to play out on a stage in Africa, with little notice by the outside world, even though warnings were loud and urgent, starting in 2011, when the famine was officially declared a humanitarian disaster in the making. At that time, Dr....
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