Somali Famine 260,000 PEOPLE DIED [PHOTOS]: 2011 Famine Quarter of Million Dead, MORE THAN HALF CHILDREN AGE 5 and UNDER
Do you recall the 2011 Somali Famine? If you are in America, mostly likely not. The average American tosses about 25 percent of food and beverages purchased. For a family of four, the money wasted could total from $1,365 to $2,275, according to a report last August by the National Resources Defense Council.
In Somalia food is not that easy to come by. The Associated Press reported that 2010-2011 Somali famine claimed more than a quarter million lives according to a new report to be published this week.
The aid community believes that tens of thousands of people died needlessly because the international community was slow to respond to early signs of approaching hunger in East Africa in late 2010 and early 2011, according to the Associated Press.
A Western official briefed on the new report - the most authoritative to date - told AP that it says 260,000 people died, and that half the victims were 5 and under.
For more on the report from FEWSNET, a famine early warning system funded by the U.S. government's aid arm USAID, and by the Food Security and Nutrition Analysis Unit - Somalia, which is funded by the U.S. and Britain, read the full AP report here.
The FEWSET Report will be made public on Thursday.