A new UN
report says five million people in Somalia are not getting enough
food. That’s more than 40 percent of the population of this chaotic
Horn of Africa country.
The report
released Tuesday says the number of people who are food insecure has
increased by 300,000 since February. The report says more than
300,000 children under 5 are acutely malnourished.
More than a
million people in Somalia are displaced after years of violence and
attacks by homegrown extremist group Al-Shabab. Now thousands of
people are returning to the country from the world's largest refugee
camp in neighboring Kenya, which has vowed to close the camp in the
coming months. The new report blames hunger in part on poor rainfall
in southern and central Somalia.
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