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Famine-stricken Somalis need more aid
15.08.2011 09:27 "Agro Perspectiva" (Kyiv) —
The international community must do more to help the famine-stricken Somalis who continue to cross into Kenya to seek aid, the United Nations humanitarian chief said.
Ms. Valerie Amos was on a visit to Dadaab in north-eastern Kenya to see first-hand the crisis gripping the region.
Dadaab is home to more than 400,000 registered refugees, nearly all of them Somali.
No one should have to endure such suffering, she said after meeting a mother whose four children died on the way to the camp.
An estimated 70,000 people having arrived in the past two months fleeing drought, failed harvests and conflict in their country.
UN agencies and their partners are working to ease the overcrowding within Dadaab.
They are also providing health care, water and sanitation for camp residents.
12 million people across the Horn of Africa region are in need of food aid and humanitarian assistance.
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