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Africa drought endangers 500,000 children: UN [1]

The lives of half a million children in the Horn of Africa are at risk, international aid agencies said on Friday, as the worst drought in decades forces thousands of people to flee their homes each day.

High food prices and the driest years since the early 1950s have pushed many poor families in Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Djibouti into desperate need, UNICEF said.

"We have over two millio

Publication Date: 
11/07/2011
Caroline Copley [2]
Planet Ark (Australia) [3]
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Africa [4], Drought [5], Natural Disasters [6], Children [7], Food Prices [8], UNICEF [9], Kenya [10], Somalia [11], Ethiopia [12], Malnutrition [13], Child Health [14], Immunisation [15], Food Aid [16]
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