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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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Somali refugee boys eat porridge during break time at the Liban integrated academy at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, August 2, 2011. (Reuters)
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Somali refugee girls attend Koran classes at the Liban integrated academy at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, August 2, 2011. (Reuters)
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A severely malnourished displaced Somali child is admitted at southern Mogadishu's Banadir hospital for treatment on August 2, 2011. (AFP)
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A newly arrived refugee woman and her child from Baidoa in Somalia sit in the open as they camp with their belongings outside Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 30, 2011. (Reuters)