Islamists have many ways to kill

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The 2011 Somali famine killed an estimated 260,000 people, half of them age 5 and under, according to a new report to be published this week that more than doubles previous death toll estimates, officials told The Associated Press.

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.

The toll was also exacerbated by extremist militants from al-Shabab who banned food aid deliveries to the areas of south-central Somalia that they controlled.

Who is al-Shabab? Wikipedia says,

the Somalia-based cell of the militant Islamist group al-Qaeda, formally recognized in 2012.[3] As of 2012, the outfit controls large swathes of the southern parts of the country,[4] where it is said to have imposed its own strict form of Sharia law.