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Q78·GS Paper 1 · Prelims 2023

Which country suffering from decades of civil strife and food shortages and in news for severe famine

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Question

Which one of the following countries has been suffering from decades of civil strife and food shortages and was in news in the recent past for its very severe famine?

Options

a

Angola

b

Costa Rica

c

Ecuador

d

Somalia

Answer

Explanation

Somalia has faced decades of brutal civil war, state collapse, and insurgency (Al-Shabaab). This prolonged instability, combined with historic multi-year droughts in the Horn of Africa, triggered catastrophic and highly publicized famines in the recent past.

The Horn of Africa (Somalia, Ethiopia) is the global epicenter where chronic geopolitical instability overlaps with severe climate-induced drought.

Answer: (d).

Question details

Year

2023

Paper

GS Paper 1

Question

Q78

Subject

International Relations

Sub-topic

Global Conflicts & Crises

Type

Factual single

Difficulty

Easy

Nature

Current-affairs-linked

Source hint

Horn of Africa Humanitarian Crisis / Somalia Famine 2022

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