Starving Somalia to Get Famine Designation

Drought and food shortages have gotten so bad in southern Somalia that the UN is almost certain to upgrade the situation from a “humanitarian emergency” to a “famine/humanitarian catastrophe,” sources tell the Telegraph . “It’s 99% certain that tomorrow we will have to declare a full phase-five famine situation,” says one…

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Starving Somalia to Get Famine Designation

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