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East Africa:
UN Chief Calls for Long-Term Efforts to Boost Food Security
UN News, 25 July 2011
Emergency delivery of aid to people facing drought-related hunger in the Horn of Africa must be accompanied by longer-term efforts to boost food security in the region,… Read more »
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Kenya:
UN Calls for Urgent International Support On Drought
The Star, 25 July 2011
Emergency food centres in drought-stricken areas across Eastern Africa are being overwhelmed by thousands of starving people. The World Food Programme's executive director Josette… Read more »
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Somalia:
Red Cross Says It's Delivered Food Into Area Controlled By Al-Shabaab
Daily Champion, 24 July 2011
The Red Cross says it has delivered food into one of Somalia's worst hit drought areas, controlled by the Islamist militant group al-Shabab. Read more »
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Uganda:
Somalia's Hungry Need Urgent Help
Monitor, 25 July 2011
As thousands of hungry Somalis continue trekking to neighbouring countries, the country's radical al-Shabaab Islamists have denied lifting a ban it had placed on some Western aid… Read more »
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East Africa:
Fund Gives U.S. $51 Million for Food
UN News, 23 July 2011
The United Nations-managed humanitarian fund has allocated more than $51 million to deliver food aid to thousands of needy people across the Horn of Africa, which has been ravaged… Read more »
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Somalia:
Local Crisis, Global Crisis
AfricaFocus, 24 July 2011
The early warning systems worked. But the response to the famine in the Horn of Africa, which is particularly severe in Somalia, has still been too little and too late, as is the… Read more »
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Somalia:
Government Seeks Urgent Help for Mogadishu's Malnourished Children
UNIRIN, 25 July 2011
At least 1,000 of an estimated 14,000 malnourished children in 50 camps for the drought-displaced in Somalia's capital are in a critical condition and government officials have… Read more »
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Somalia:
Forcibly Deported People From Saudi Arabia Land At Mogadishu
Shabelle, 22 July 2011
Some 60 Somalis forcibly deported form the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia on Friday arrived at Mogadishu's Adan Adde International Airport. Read more »
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Somalia:
Planes From Kuwait Carrying Humanitarian Aid Arrive At Mogadishu
Shabelle, 22 July 2011
Two planes from the Kuwaiti government and carrying humanitarian aid on Friday arrived at the seaside Mogadishu amid devastating drought and famine in the horn of African nation. Read more »
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Somalia:
DBG Gives Out Aid For Drought Displaced People in Mogadishu
Shabelle, 23 July 2011
Daryeel Bulsho Guud, DBG which is among relief organizations operating in the drought hit Somalia, on Friday distributed aid food to internally displaced people in IDPs camp in… Read more »
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Somalia:
Act Fast On the Famine Crisis, Agencies
CISA, 21 July 2011
The Somalia NGO Consortium has urged the international community to act swiftly to avert the famine crisis in Somalia. Read more »