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7/28/2011 12:44:28 PM
Residents in drought-stricken areas struggle to reach camps providing aid as Islamist militants Al-Shabab violently try to prevent the outflow of people but debate among themselves whether to accept Western assistance
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7/24/2011 11:36:07 AM
UN emergency official Cristina Amaral believes that hunger crisis in Somalia is immoral"
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7/23/2011 1:29:53 PM
Aid agencies are unable to reach more than two million Somalis facing starvation in the famine-struck Horn of Africa country where Islamist insurgents control much of the worst-hit areas, the U.N.'s food agency said on Saturday
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7/22/2011 2:55:31 PM
Somali rebels revoke previous pledge to allow the UN World Food Program to deliver aid, while the UN agency remains adamant about delivering food to the famine stricken areas
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7/21/2011 3:38:13 PM
The United Nations has called an emergency meeting on July 25 to discuss mobilising aid for drought-stricken east Africa, where famine has been declared in parts of Somalia
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7/20/2011 12:00:23 PM
The United Nations said Wednesday that famine has hit two parts of rebel-held Somalia, with up to 350,000 people affected in the most severe food crisis in Africa for two decades
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7/16/2011 4:39:54 PM
East Africa's worsening famine is one of the largest humanitarian crises in decades, a U.S. State Department official said, pledging "significant" aid despite the debt ceiling impasse being debated in Washington
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