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43,000 estimated dead in Somalia drought last year: report

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At least 18,000 people are forecast to die in the first six months of this year.
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U.N. warns up to 345 million people marching toward starvation

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Explained | Why is the WHO chief calling the Tigray crisis in Ethiopia the worst disaster on earth?

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20 million risk starvation as Horn of Africa drought worsens: United Nations

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Dying of hunger in Ethiopia's blockaded Tigray

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Ila became a household name in Bengal, and several local newspapers and journals described her as the first Bengali woman to get an Olympic call. Illustration: Kannan Sundar

Athlete Ila Mitra missed the 1940 Olympics, but became an indomitable peasant leader

UN-led committee says 3,50,000 people in famine in Ethiopia’s Tigray

Famine is imminent in Ethiopia's embattled Tigray region: UN

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Warning of famine, United Nations releases $100mn to seven countries

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People leave en masse in search of food and jobs during the 1873-4 Bengal famine.

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ATTENTION EDITORS PICTURE 22 OF 27 FOR PACKAGE 'MALNOURISHED CHILDREN IN INDIA'. TO FIND PICTURES SEARCH 'MALNUTRITION INDIA' A woman feeds her malnourished child with special food at the Nutritional Rehabilitation Centre of Shivpuri district in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh February 1, 2012. India has failed to reduce its high prevalence of child malnutrition despite its economy doubling between 1990 and 2005 to become Asia's third largest. A government-supported survey last month said 42 percent of children under five are underweight - almost double that of sub-Saharan Africa - compared to 43 percent five years ago. The statistic - which means 3,000 children dying daily due to illnesses related to poor diets - forced Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to admit last month that malnutrition was 'a national shame' and was putting the health of the nation in jeopardy. Picture taken February 1, 2012. REUTERS/Adnan Abidi (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY POVERTY FOOD TPX IMAGES OF THE DAY)

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Hagar Yahia, a mother of eight, cries in her hut in Abyan, Yemen in this February 9, 2018 photo. Displaced from their home and scrounging for work, she and her husband can barely afford to buy enough food for their family. “I go hungry for my children. I prefer not to eat so that they can,” she says. (FILE)

In war-hit Yemen, mothers skip meals to save their children

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As many as 41 soldiers have died from 2013 till March 31, 2016, at the Glacier in Jammu and Kashmir.

Changing climate puts, among others, India at risk: global study

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In this April 5, 2017 photo, Abuk Garang holding her 7-month-old son William Deng sits against a tree as she and others walk to a food distribution site in Malualkuel in the Northern Bahr el Ghazal region of South Sudan.

Famine again a threat in South Sudan, new report says

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In this June 18, 2017 file photo, displaced South Sudanese gather during a visit of UNCHR High Commissioner Filippo Grandi to a new site for displaced people outside of the U.N. protected camp, in Bentiu, South Sudan.

UN says 1.25 million South Sudanese are 1 step from famine

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Starvation looms: People collecting water from a well located on the outskirts of Sana’a that is allegedly contaminated with cholera bacteria.

In Yemen, Saudi blockade ratchets up fears of famine

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A young girl suffering from malnutrition lies in a bed inside the malnutrition ward at Garowe General Hospital on February 27, 2017 in Garowe, Somalia. Somalia is currently on the brink of famine with over half of the country's population facing acute food insecurity according to the United Nations.

UN chief arrives on emergency visit to Somalia for famine

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The first faces Five-year-old Abdullahi Mohamud cries as a nurse struggles to find a vein in his arm to administer him an injection at a government-run health clinic in Shada, Somalia. Abdullahi was diagnosed with bronchitis and severe malnutrition. His family lost all their livestock due to drought and have travelled 150 km in search of help. Somalia is on the brink of famine with over half the country’s population facing acute food insecurity, says the United Nations. The intensifying crisis has seen humanitarian groups racing against time to prevent a repeat of 2011, where 260,000 people died of famine across the country.

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