audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - The current drought in Somalia will very likely become a famine - this year. More than 2 million people are facing starvation in the Horn of Africa nation that is suffering the effects of repeated rain failures and decades of conflict, according to the United Nations. A pre-famine alert was issued earlier this year, a move that U.N. officials credit with helping to avert a repeat of the 2011 famine. More than half the country, some 6.7 million Somalis still require aid after drought withered crops, killed livestock and dried up waterholes, according to the U.N. And almost 1.4 million children will risk acute malnutrition, according to UNICEF. After three extremely dry 'rainy' seasons, the effect has been catastrophic. 60 percent of Somalis depend on farming for survival, but as the dry landscape has caused many small farmers to lose their livestock and in turn their livelihood. While emergency workers focus on safe drinking water and food, the country is fighting its worst cholera epidemic in five years so far over 600 people have died from the disease. It will be the 3rd famine to hit Somalia in 25 years, a rate of starvation that is unmatched on Earth.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - Women fill jerry cans with water from a well implemented by Polish Humanitarian Action. Somalia is in the grip of an unprecedented and devastating food crisis. Drought has caused crops to fail and cattle to die in Somalia causing severe food and water shortages. Brutal conflicts in South Sudan, Yemen and Nigeria and Somalia have driven millions of people from their homes and left millions more in need of emergency food.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - The Bantu (also called Jareer, Gosha, and Mushunguli) are an ethnic minority group in Somalia who primarily reside in the southern part of the country, near the Juba and Shabelle rivers. They are descendants of people from various Bantu ethnic groups, whom were captured from Southeast Africa and sold into slavery in Somalia and other areas in Northeast Africa and Asia as part of the 19th-century Arab slave trade. Bantus are ethnically, physically, and culturally distinct from Somalis, and they have remained marginalized ever since their arrival in Somalia.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - Women fill jerry cans with water from a well implemented by Polish Humanitarian Action.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - Somalia is in the grip of an unprecedented and devastating food crisis. Drought has caused crops to fail and cattle to die in Somalia causing severe food and water shortages. Brutal conflicts in South Sudan, Yemen and Nigeria and Somalia have driven millions of people from their homes and left millions more in need of emergency food.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - Women wait to fill jerry cans with water at a kiosk renovated by Polish Humanitarian Action. Somalia has been in a state of complex humanitarian crisis, with socio-economic, political and environmental factors leading to widespread conflict, drought, more recently flooding and numerous other recurrent human and natural disasters. In recent days, thousands of Somalis have trekked to Mogadishu desperately searching food and aid.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - Women carry jerry cans with water in IDP camp. In Somalia, where cholera outbreaks have killed hundreds of people, the looming famine threatens 6.2 million more than half the population. It threatens to bring back the grim reality of 2011, when 260,000 Somalis starved to death.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - A Somalian girl in the IDP camp. Somalia is in the grip of an unprecedented and devastating food crisis. Drought has caused crops to fail and cattle to die in Somalia causing severe food and water shortages.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - Boys carry jerry cans with water.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - A doctor measures the arm of a malnourished girl at a feeding center. . The center is busy with mothers queuing to receive the peanut paste, and children being weighed and screened.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - A boy is measured at the feeding center. The center is busy with mothers queuing to receive the peanut paste, and children being weighed and screened.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - Somalia is in the grip of an unprecedented and devastating food crisis. Drought has caused crops to fail and cattle to die in Somalia causing severe food and water shortages.
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March 25, 2017 - Mogadishu, Somalia - A group of IDPs wait for food distribution in camp. Somalia has been in a state of complex humanitarian crisis, with socio-economic, political and environmental factors leading to widespread conflict, drought, and more recently flooding and numerous other recurrent human and natural disasters. In recent days, thousands of Somalis have trekked to Mogadishu desperately searching food and aid.
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