Geneva — The International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) says there still is time to avert a potentially catastrophic famine in Somalia - but only if donors act now to support critical humanitarian operations.
Mogadishu officials have declared drought in seven regions and warned of a possible repeat of the 2011 famine in which more than one-quarter of a million people died, half of them children, unless urgent measures are taken to head off the worst.
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