43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year

A new report says an estimated 43,000 people died during the longest drought on record in Somalia last year (Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP)

An estimated 43,000 people died during the longest drought on record in Somalia last year, with half of them likely to have been children, according to a new report.

It is the first official death toll announced in the drought withering large parts of the Horn of Africa.