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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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The ruins of Mogadishu’s Roman Catholic cathedral are home to dozens of tent-dwelling families seeking refuge from famine in southern Somalia. (VOA - P. Heinlein)
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Hamsa Ali, with two of her five remaining children, tells how her 3-year old son died a day earlier of measles complicated by malnutrition. (VOA - P. Heinlein)