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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 Somalian, Mohamed Idris sits in his makeshift shelter on August 4, 2011 at an Internally Displaced People (IDP) camp in southern Mogadishu. (AFP)
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Malnourished Somali children are seen inside a paediatric ward at the Banadir hospital in Mogadishu, August 4, 2011. (Reuters)
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Somali displaced families wait for humanitarian assistance near a street in southern Mogadishu where they rest after fleeing from southern Somalia regions on August 3, 2011. (AFP)
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A newly displaced Somali family from the Bakool region walks through the streets of the capital Mogadishu, August 3, 2011. (Reuters)