Nearly 260,000 people died during the famine that hit Somalia from 2010 to 2012, a study shows. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-22380352 Half of them were children under the age of five.”It suggests that what occurred in Somalia was one of the worst famines in the last 25 years,” An estimated 4.6% of the total population and 10% of children under five died in southern and central Somalia,
“The report confirms we should have done more before the famine was declared,” “Warnings that began as far back as the drought in 2010 did not trigger sufficient early action,” Tens of thousands of people fled their homes in search of food. “While conditions in Somalia have improved in recent months, the country still has one of the highest rates of child malnutrition and infant mortality in the world,”  “This is a sobering reminder that Somalia’s famine was one of the worst disasters of recent times,”