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Saturday

World Faces Largest Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945, U.N. Official Says

Acutely malnourished child Sacdiyo Mohamed, 9 months old, is treated at Banadir hospital in Somalia on Saturday. Somalia's government has declared the drought there a national disaster. Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP hide caption

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The Two-Way

World Faces Largest Humanitarian Crisis Since 1945, U.N. Official Says

Conflict and drought have ravaged four countries across North Africa and the Middle East, leaving more than 20 million people in desperate need of food.

Friday

Somalia's Famine Is Over, But Millions Still Need Food Aid

Displaced families line up to receive food rations at a feeding center in Somalia. Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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Mohamed Abdiwahab/AFP/Getty Images

The Salt

Somalia's Famine Is Over, But Millions Still Need Food Aid

The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization says there has been a significant drop in the number of people in need of emergency humanitarian assistance in Somalia since last year — from 4 million to 2.34 million, or 31 percent of the population.

Tuesday

Relief Groups Kicked Out Of Somalia, Warn Of Humanitarian Catastrophe

Somali civilians line up for food during the famine this year. Militants are banning relief agencies who warn a quarter of a million Somalis are at risk of starvation. Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP hide caption

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Mohamed Sheikh Nor/AP

The Two-Way

Relief Groups Kicked Out Of Somalia, Warn Of Humanitarian Catastrophe

Al-Shabab militants in Somalia ordered 16 relief organizations out of the country, despite the hundreds of thousands of civilians facing famine and death. Relief agencies are upset and worried.

Tuesday

Aid Boosted To Somalia; U.S. Mogadishu Vet Says He Would Return

Children from southern Somalia fill jugs with water at a refugee camp in Mogadishu Tuesday. The number of people fleeing famine-hit areas of Somalia is likely to rise dramatically and could overwhelm international aid efforts in the Horn of Africa, a U.N. aid official said Tuesday. Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP hide caption

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Farah Abdi Warsameh/AP

The Two-Way

Aid Boosted To Somalia; U.S. Mogadishu Vet Says He Would Return

Some 800 metric tons of food are on the way to East Africa, where more than 12 million people are suffering from a severe drought. And a U.S. veteran who was shot down in Somalia in 1993 says he'd be willing to fly aid in.

Tuesday

U.S. May Alter Rules To Let More Aid Into Somalia

Somali refugees wait at dawn at a registration center at the Dadaab refugee complex in Kenya Tuesday, to receive aid after having been displaced from their homes in southern Somalia by famine. Tony Karumba/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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The Two-Way

U.S. May Alter Rules To Let More Aid Into Somalia

Efforts to help famine victims in Somalia have been stymied by al-Shabaab, a group on the U.S. terrorism watchlist. But it may get easier in the coming weeks, due to pending U.S. rules changes that will allow aid groups more leeway to deliver food in Shabaab-controlled areas, according to the AP.

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'Triangle Of Death' In Horn Of Africa; Famine Grips Southern Somalia

Monday (July 18, 2011): At a refugee camp near Mogadishu, a Somali woman cries after the death of one of her children. Mustafa Abdi/AFP/Getty Images hide caption

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The Two-Way

'Triangle Of Death' In Horn Of Africa; Famine Grips Southern Somalia

The United Nations has escalated its dire warnings about what's happening in the Horn of Africa, declaring today that drought and famine in southern Somalia threaten millions of people.

Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

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