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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 newly arrived refugee woman from Baidoa in Somalia carries firewood as they camp outside Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 30, 2011. (Reuters)
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A newly arrived refugee family walks into Baley settlement near the Ifo extension refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border, July 27, 2011. (Reuters)
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Some 10 tonnes of relief food from the World Food Programme (WFP) is unloaded from a plane after it landed in Mogadishu airport July 27, 2011. (Reuters)
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Men from southern Somalia carry their malnourished children from a refugee camp towards the hospital in Mogadishu, July 18, 2011. (AP)