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  • Somalia: United Nations declares famine in two regions
    20 July 2011 - 10:49pm
    On 20 July, at a press conference in Nairobi, the Humanitarian Coordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden, declared that famine exists in two regions of southern Somalia: southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle. Across the country, nearly half of the Somali population – 3.7 million people – are now in...
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  • Horn of Africa Drought
    16 July 2011 - 3:41am
    Today Valerie Amos, the Emergency relief Coordinator and Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, briefed United Nations Member States on the situation in the Horn of Africa. Noting that more than 10.7 million people across the region urgently need help, Valerie Amos emphasized the fact that the...
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  • Ethiopia: Funding, resources and access needed to help drought-...
    10 July 2011 - 9:04pm
    With the Horn of Africa once again in the grip of a severe drought, ERC Valerie Amos travelled to Ethiopia’s drought-affected Somali region, where pastoralist communities have not seen rain for some 18 months. “I have just come back from the Somali Region, where I met the regional president,...
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