Crisis in East Africa: Famine and Starvation.

Northside Storm · Jul 21, 2011

http://yourlife.usatoday.com/mind-s...at-risk-of-starvation-in-east-africa/177917/1

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jul/20/somalia-famine-refugee-camp

Khadija Aliow Mohamed sits silently in the sand inside her tiny twig igloo, staring at the small bundle wrapped in a red and blue shawl on the bed. The 20-year-old Somali walked for 30 days with her two-year-old daughter Madina to get to this refugee camp in northern Kenya a few weeks ago.

Hungry and exhausted, the family escaped the worst drought in southern Somalia in decades, which has already claimed tens of thousands of lives, according to the United Nations. But while Mohamed regained her strength in Dadaab, the world's biggest refugee settlement, Madina did not. Just an hour after the UN declared a famine in two regions of Somalia, Madina died. Her mother, who is pregnant, is too shocked to talk.

Instead her grandfather, Ali Mohamed, explains what happened. Mohamed escaped Somalia with them, and carried Madina's body here along the sand road from the hospital at noon on Wednesday.

"The child never recovered from the malnutrition," he says, clutching a small blue slip of paper with the words "Permit for Burial".
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First link has a slew of links on how to help.

There's also this: https://www.helpforcharities.com/humanitarian/index.php?lang=en

She will not be the last. According to the UN, more than six out of every 10,000 people are dying of hunger every day in some parts of the Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions of Somalia, with more than half the children there suffering from acute malnutrition. This is far above the normal famine threshold of two deaths per 10,000 people a day, and 30% malnutrition levels, UN agencies say.
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Grandpappy · Jul 21, 2011

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Landlord Landry · Jul 21, 2011

dam. thanks for posting. I almost forgot to add sushi and tempura to the grocery list.

rocketsjudoka · Jul 21, 2011

A true political solution needs to be found so Somalia can become stable or else this type of thing will keep on happening.

REEKO_HTOWN · Jul 21, 2011

Where is Toycen's Chemtrails when you need them?

or is it that the U.S. want them to die...................................

Cohete Rojo · Jul 21, 2011

Every time I think of hunger I think of:

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