Mongabay: Famine spreads: 29,000 young children perish
As the UN announces that famine has spread in Somalia to three additional regions (making five in total now), the US has put the first number to the amount of children under 5 who have so far perished from starvation in the last 90 days: 29,000. Nearly half of the total population of Somalia is currently in need of emergency food assistance. Yet, the al Qaeda-linked group al-Shabab, which controls parts of Somalia, has made bringing assistance to many......
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Famine spreads: 29,000 young children perish
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on August 4th, 2011
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