• 860k the number of refugees from Somalia that have left the country due to the debilitating drought
• 1.5M the number of refugees experts say have been displaced within Somalia by the drought
• 12M the number of people the United Nations says need food aid within the region source

• » To put this in perspective: In Somalia alone, experts say that 3.7 million people are directly affected by the drought — roughly half the population in some places. And to be clear, “famine” is a loaded term, but one the UN only uses when the situation meets a very dire statistical level — we’re talking malnutrition rates above 30 percent.

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