Somalia: One Million Somalis Starve As Towns Besieged and Food Prices Quadruple

More than a million hungry Somalis urgently need food aid due to worsening drought and conflict, a 20 percent increase since January, the U.N. said on Tuesday.

It is the first time that the number of Somalis in crisis has increased since the 2011 famine, in which 260,000 people died, the U.N. said.

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