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Somalia Famine
More than 12 million people face hunger and starvation in the Horn of Africa. The UNHCR calls the drought, which is gripping Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, and Somalia, the worst humanitarian crisis in the world. Somalia is particularly hard hit. The United Nations has officially declared several regions in south-central Somalia famine zones.
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A handout picture taken July 26, 2011 and made available to Reuters on August 8, 2011, shows a Somali woman holding her malnourished child at the Banadir hospital in southern Mogadishu. (Reuters/IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation)
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Turkana women and their children wait to receive relief food supplies near the Kakuma Refugee Camp, Turkana District, northwest of Kenya's capital Nairobi, August 8, 2011. (Reuters)
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Displaced people sit with their packed belongings as they prepare to flee Badbado settlement after two groups of Somalia government soldiers clashed inside the camp in the capital Mogadishu, August 5, 2011. (Reuters)
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Somali government soldier mans a positions near northern Mogadishu's Yaqshid district headquarters after Islamist insurgents pulled out of the area on August 6, 2011. (AFP)