The United Nations’ humanitarian chief says aid efforts in drought-stricken Somalia and the Horn of Africa need to be scaled up to save the lives of millions facing starvation. “There are still many lives that need to be saved in the Horn of Africa,” Valerie Amos, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs, told a news conference in New York on Wednesday. Amos, who had just returned from a three-day visit to Kenya and Somalia, called for “more food and nutritional supplies, water, sanitation and hygiene equipment, and medical care to those who are in…
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