Getting relief to starving Somalis
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Women from southern Somalia holding babies stand in a line to receive aid at a refugee camp in Mogadishu, Somalia, Saturday, July 16, 2011. Thousands of people have arrived in Mogadishu over the past two weeks seeking assistance due to lack of water and food. The worst drought in the Horn of Africa has sparked a severe food crisis and high malnutrition rates.
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International relief groups are poised to offer food and medicine to millions who are fleeing a drought in Somalia in the middle of civil war. But will insurgient fighters allow western help in for starving people?
We'll ask whether a declaration of famine is enough to help a desperate situation in the Horn of Africa.
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