Somalia Declares Famine Emergency
United Press International
MOGADISHU, Somalia — This east African nation declared a national emergency Wednesday and appealed for international help to combat a famine that has killed nearly 600 people and affected 60% of the nation’s population.
Interior Minister Ahmed Suleiman Abdalla said that persistent drought has seriously depleted cattle herds, money, food and an entire way of life for the nomadic inhabitants of the impoverished country.
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