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Wednesday, July 20, 2011

Somalis dying in world's worst famine in 20 years - latimes.com

Somalis dying in world's worst famine in 20 years - latimes.com: "Tens of thousands of Somalis are feared dead in the world's worst famine in a generation, the U.N. said Wednesday, a crisis so severe that the United States is loosening rules meant to prevent emergency funds from falling into the hands of al-Qaida-linked militants.

Exhausted, rail-thin women are stumbling into refugee camps in Kenya and Ethiopia with dead babies and bleeding feet, having left weaker family members behind along the way."

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