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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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A woman constructing the frame of what will be her tent home at the Sayidka IDP camp in Mogadishu. (VOA - P. Heinlein)
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A. woman digs hole to plant a branch that will serve as the tent structure of her new IDP home. (VOA - P. Heinlein)
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This Somali child is suffering from measles and malnutrition. (VOA - P. Heinlein)
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Arfon Abdi Hassan shows the measles scars on the back of her one-year old son. (VOA - P. Heinlein)