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Kayoi Maze, 42, was separated from her two daughters, ages 18 and 16. Her neighbors later informed her that the fighters had abducted them. “I don’t expect to ever see them again,” said Maze, who like hundreds of villagers returned to the city Likuangole over the weekend to receive food aid from the UN’s World Food Program. ”At least I have two daughters left.” Photo: Sudarsan Raghavan/Washington Post

Kayoi Maze, 42, was separated from her two daughters, ages 18 and 16. Her neighbors later informed her that the fighters had abducted them. “I don’t expect to ever see them again,” said Maze, who like hundreds of villagers returned to the city Likuangole over the weekend to receive food aid from the UN’s World Food Program. ”At least I have two daughters left.” Photo: Sudarsan Raghavan/Washington Post

In South Sudan, a wave of tribal killings tests fragile independence Sudarsan Raghavan Washington Post January 30, 2011 South Sudanese 'massacred' while trying to escape rival ethnic group BBC News January 3, 2012

The new village of Bildak in Ethiopia's Gambella region, which the semi-nomadic Nuer who were forcibly transferred there quickly abandoned in May 2011 because there was no water. Photo: Human Rights Watch

The new village of Bildak in Ethiopia's Gambella region, which the semi-nomadic Nuer who were forcibly transferred there quickly abandoned in May 2011 because there was no water. Photo: Human Rights Watch

Ethiopia 'forcing out thousands in land grab' The Independent January 18, 2012 See full Human Rights Watch report    See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger

Sudan farmers 'fear foreign land grabs' Al Jazeera January 1, 2012 (video) See Hunger Notes special report Trade and Hunger

The El Molo are a small fishing community found on the south-eastern side of the lake Turkana, northern Kenya. Photo: Siegfried Modola/IRIN

SLIDESHOW: Living on the edge in Kenya's Turkana region IRIN News January 27, 2012

Pounding millet in the village of Boukanda, 50km west of Niamey, capital of Niger Photo: Boureima Balima/IRIN

Niger: Thousands of villages hit by severe food shortages; almost half the population of Niger is hungry IRIN News January 24, 2012  

Women and children wait to receive a cooked meal at a food distribution organized by the WFP near the port in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo:Kate Holt/IRIN  

Women and children wait to receive a cooked meal at a food distribution organized by the WFP near the port in Mogadishu, Somalia. Photo:Kate Holt/IRIN  

Somali Islamists ban aid groups, renewing famine concerns Mike Pflanz Christian Science Monitor November 30, 2011 With rainfall and aid the number facing starvation in Somalia drops by half a million Jeffrey Gettleman New York Times November 18, 2011  US intensifies its proxy fight against al-Shabab in Somalia Craig Whitlock Washington Post November 24, 2011 Encircling Somalia (map) Washington Post November 24, 2011 US drone base in Ethiopia is operational Craig Whitlock Washington Post October 27, 2011 Kenyans in first al-Shabab battle in Somalia after crossing the border BBC News October 28, 2011

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