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Somali Famine Defies Easy Answers
The famine sweeping southern Somalia is posing a painful challenge to humanitarian organizations. Children are dying by the thousands just a few kilometers from warehouses full of emergency food supplies.

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New arrivals enter the sprawling Sayidka tent city. (VOA - P. Heinlein)

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A security guard on a hill overlooking the Sayidka IDP camp. (VOA - P. Heinlein)

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A family arrives at the newly-opened Sayidka camp for internally displaced people in the shadow of Somalia’s parliament building. (VOA - P. Heinlein)

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An exhausted family sleeps in the open after a long journey by foot from southern Somalia to Mogadishu. (VOA - P. Heinlein)