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Famine ‘largest humanitarian crisis in history of UN’

by AP

More than 6 million people in Somalia are in need of food assistance (Photo: Said Yusuf Warsame/EPA)

The world faces the largest humanitarian crisis since the United Nations was founded in 1945 with more than 20 million people in four countries at risk of starvation and famine, the UN humanitarian chief has said

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