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The spectre of famine has returned to the Horn of Africa nearly a quarter of a century after the world’s pop stars gathered to banish it at Live Aid, raising £150m for relief efforts in 1985. Millions of impoverished Ethiopians face the threat of...
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Ten million Kenyans are facing starvation but all our politicians can do is heighten their blame games as the situation deteriorates.
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What has come together in the ‘horn of Africa’ was been described by the UN’s World Food Program(WFP) as the ‘tragedy of the decade’.
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Mayor Michael Nutter, right, followed by Human Services commissioner Anne Marie Ambrose enter a news conference at City Hall in Philadelphia, Monday, Aug. 4, 2008. Seven more city employees have been suspended in connection with the starvation death of...
