When do food shortages become a famine?
More or Less: Behind the Stats
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Somalia
The IPC has for the first time issued a projection of a famine in Somalia. Famine was projected based on assumptions with regard to the performance of the current rainy season. The area is controlled by Al Shabaab, so it's difficult to access directly those populations. A declaration of famine needs to be based on evidence.
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