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Some 250,000 people died in the southern Somalia famine of 2011-12, which also displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands more. Yet this crisis had been predicted in 2010. The harshest drought in Somalia's recent history coincided with a global spike in food prices, hitting this arid, import-dependent country hard. The policies of Al-Shabaab, a militant Islamist group that controlled southern Somalia, exacerbated an already difficult situation, barring most humanitarian assistance, while the donors' counter-terrorism policies criminalized any aid falling into their hands. A major disaster resulted from production and market failures precipitated by the drought and food price crisis, while the famine itself resulted from failure to respond quickly to these events-and was thus largely human-made. This book analyzes the famine.

Famines --- Famine --- Food supply --- Starvation --- Shabaab. --- Somalia --- Somalia. --- Shabaab <> --- al-Shabaab --- Harakat al-Shabaab al-Mujahideen --- HSM --- Hizbul Shabaab --- Mujahideen Youth Movement --- Politische Organisation --- Somaliland --- Jamhuuriyadda Dimugraadiga Soomaaliya --- Jamhuriyadda Dimugradiya Soomaaliya --- Ṣūmālīya --- <> Ǧumhūrīya ad-Dīmūqrāṭīya aṣ-Ṣūmālīya --- Repubblica Somalia --- Repubblica Democratica Somalia --- Soomaaliya --- Jamhuuriyadda Dimoqraadiga Soomaaliya --- Jamhuriyadda Dimuqradiga Soomaaliya --- Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraadiga Soomaaliya --- Jamhuriyadda Dimugradiga ee Soomaaliya --- Somaliya --- Jamhuriyadda Dimugradiga Somaliya --- Ǧumhūrīyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl ad-Dīmuqrāṭīya --- Jamhuuriyadda Demokratikada Soomaaliya --- Somali Democratic Republic --- Demokratische Republik Somalia --- Somali Republic --- Sūmālīya --- Federal Republic of Somalia --- Somalier --- Britisch-Somaliland --- Italienisch-Somaliland --- 1960 --- -J.D.S. --- Jamhuuriyadda Dheegcabayaasha Cilmila'anta --- Jamhuuriyadda Dimuqraatiga Soomaaliya --- JDS --- Jumhuriyadda Dimuqradika Somaliya --- Jumhūrīyat al-Ṣūmāl al-Dīmuqrāṭīyah --- Jumhūriyyat aṣ-Ṣūmāl --- Repubblica democratica somala --- Repubblica somala --- République Démocratique de Somalie --- S.D.R. --- SDR --- Ṣūmāl --- J.D.S.