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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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Displaced Somali women take down their makeshift shelters as they prepare to move from Mogadishu's Badbado camp where a fire fight between Somali government forces and militiamen looting food aid left at least seven people dead, Friday Aug. 5, 2011. (AP)
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A newly arrived Somali family carry their supply of aid outside Dadaab, Eastern Kenya, 100 kms (60 miles) from the Somali border, Aug. 5, 2011. (AP)
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Somali women walk on the outskirt of UNHCR's Ifo Extension camp set outside Dadaab, Eastern Kenya, 100 kms (60 miles) from the Somali border, August 5, 2011. (AP)
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Displaced people flee Badbado settlement after two groups of Somalia government soldiers clashed inside the camp in the capital Mogadishu, August 5, 2011. (Reuters)