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Somali famine over, but crisis remains

Associated Press

  February 04, 2012

A bumper harvest and a surge in emergency food deliveries have improved conditions in Somalia to the point that the United Nations no longer considers the famine that has killed tens of thousands of people in the past year to be taking place, the organization announced yesterday.

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