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- Agricultural products include cattle, goats, sheep, corn, sorghum, coconuts, sugarcane, mangoes, rice, sesame seeds and beans. They export livestock, hides, bananas, fish and charcoal.

- Somalia is a Home to infamous pirates.

- Generally arid and barren, Somalia has two chief rivers, the Shebelle and the Jub

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While dining at home, it is customary for the women to serve the men first.After the men have finished their meals, they will sit down and eat with the children.

Since the Civil War in Somalia broke out in the early 1990’s, over 500,000 people have died.

The main language spoken in Somalia is Somali. Some also speak Arabic, Italian, and English.

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To put the severity of this drought into perspective, rainfall totals between June 2016 and May 2017 were the first or second lowest in the past 36 years in many areas, including in Warder and Korahe zones of Somali Region in Ethiopia and much of central Somalia

2017

· | Infant Mortality Rate | 94.75 Per 1,000 Births |
| Rank: 4

| · | Female | 85.95 Per 1,000 Births |
| Rank: 4

| · | Male | 103.28 Per 1,000 Births |
| Rank: 4

The United Nations reports Somalia, for now, has averted the worst but that the country remains fragile and famine continues to stalk its people.

The World Food Program (WFP) country director in Somalia, Laurent Bukera, says 3.2 million people are in trouble. He says some 350,000 children are malnourished, including 70,000 severely malnourished.

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Since the Civil War in Somalia broke out in the early 1990’s, over 500,000 people have died.

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Since the Civil War in Somalia broke out in the early 1990’s, over 500,000 people have died.

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Somalia has an estimated population of 12 million. About 82 percent of Somalis are poor across multiple dimensions (health, education, standard of living). Overall, 73 percent of Somalis live on under US$2 per day.

A famine in part of Southern Somalia in 2011 killed a quarter of a million people. This was the first time a famine had been declared in the Horn of Africa region in nearly thirty years.

Life expectancy in Somalia is 51 years old, up from 47 in 2001

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More than a half of the country’s population (about 6 million people) are in need of food assistance

Between November 2016 and May 2017, 738,600 people have been displaced by drought

Does not have a proper government for more than 20 years because of the civil war

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6 million people need food assistance

Al-shabaab prevents aid from reaching people

Disease such as cholera and measles is spreading

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Aid agencies believe more than 6 million people in Somalia need assistance, of whom about half are threatened with famine

Two years have gone by without rain

Earlier preparation and a generous response to appeals for funds mean the terrible scenes of the last famine in Somalia six years ago, which is thought to have killed 250,000 people, may yet be averted

Aid workers use studies of the 2011 famine to predict that at least 60,000 people are likely to die this year in a “best-case” scenario

Rampant spread of Cholera

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While dining at home, it is customary for the women to serve the men first.After the men have finished their meals, they will sit down and eat with the children.

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While dining at home, it is customary for the women to serve the men first.After the men have finished their meals, they will sit down and eat with the children.

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The country has been at civil war since 1991
363,000 children are malnourished

Half of its population (6.2 million) is suffering from starvation

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1. Somalia is at risk of their third famine. The last one, in 2011,caused the dearth of 260,000 people.

2. Farmers have been forced to move out of their homes since many of them lost all their cattle and goats to the drought. They have also had a minimum of three failed harvests, and without the livestock there is nothing. These people have walked hundred of kilometers to flee to makeshift camps in the town.

3. In hospital there are thousands of people suffering from malnutrition, cholera or acute diarrhoea. Babies and young children are most affected.

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Famine in Somalia was expected to happen again in 2017 (3rd famine in Somalia in 25 years)

In February of 2017, there was a drought and 6.7 million people were at risk of famine, but the distribution of cash vouchers put 3 million people out of danger by the month of may

3.2 million people remain at risk and 350 thousand children are malnourished

700,000 people have fled their homes in search of food and water.

Somalia has an infant mortality rate of almost 14% (the third highest in the world)

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Somalia has an estimated population of 12 million. About 82 percent of Somalis are poor across multiple dimensions (health, education, standard of living). Overall, 73 percent of Somalis live on under US$2 per day.

Life expectancy in Somalia is 51 years old, up from 47 in 2001.

Somalia is frequently ranked as one of the worst places to be a woman. In 2014, Somalia came bottom of the global rankings in terms of maternal health, child mortality, education and levels of women's income and political status.

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1. Most recently, hunger in Somalia got worse because of two year drought. From the total population of 12.3 million people, 6.2 million are food insecure. Also almost three million can not reach their daily food requirements

2. One of the first hunger crises that occurred in Somalia was a famine in 2011. Because of it around quarter million people died.

3. Hunger in Somalia is also high between internally displaced population. From around 1 200 000 people 638 000 struggle to feed themselves.

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Aid agencies believe more than 6 million people in Somalia need assistance, of whom about half are threatened with famine

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- Currently have a drought

- Aid agencies say that more than 6 million people in Somalia need medicial attention, and more than half of the 6 million are threatened with famine

- More than 30% of children under the age of 5 suffer from malnutrition

- 20 million people in 4 countries at risk of starvation and famine (biggest humanitarian crisis since the UN was founded)