According to a new report by Unicef and the World Health Organization, at least half of the 43,000 people who have died in Somalia's longest drought on record were likely children under the age of five.
Up to 43,000 people are believed to have died in the drought that has stricken the Horn of Africa.a new report releasedIt is the drought’s first official death toll as Somalia enters its sixth consecutive failed rainy season in Somalia.
WHO representative in Somalia, Dr Mamunur Rahman Malik, added: ‘We are racing against time to prevent deaths.
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