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July, 2011

July 27, 2011 - 
On Point with Tom Ashbrook
Report: ‘Frail Face Of Famine’ Somali Child Expected To Recover
On the show today, Sinead Murray, an aid worker with the International Rescue Committee, told guest host Jacki Lyden today that doctors in the refugee camp say that Mihag Gedi Farah, called the “Frail Face of Famine” by to the Associated Press, is expected to recover.
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July 27, 2011 - 
Associated Press
Gallery: Aid workers rush to help East Africa's hungry
Click here to learn how you can help. DADAAB, Kenya (AP) -- Seven-month-old Mihag Gedi Farah is the frail face of famine in the Horn of Africa. He stares out wide-eyed almost in alarm, his skin pulled taut over his ribs and twig-like arms.
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July 27, 2011 - 
The Mail On Sunday
Mihag Gedi Farah: Haunting face of East Africa drought, baby Mihag hours from death
) Cradled in his mother's arms, this is the face of a skeletal seven-month-old baby starving to death in the Horn of Africa. Weighing just seven pounds - as much as a newborn - Mihag Gedi Farah stares wide-eyed, his skin pulled taut over his ribs and tiny arms.
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July 26, 2011 - 
Associated Press
Somali 7-month-old weighs the same as newborn
Mihag Gedi Farah is 7 months old, and weighs as little as a newborn with the weathered skin of an old man. His mother managed to get him to a field hospital in a Kenyan refugee camp after a weeklong odyssey, but the baby's anguished eyes, hollow cheeks and fragile limbs show just how severe Somalia'
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July 26, 2011 - 
Yahoo! News Canada
Famine refugees face increased violence, aid groups say
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July 25, 2011 - 
PBS NewsHour
Somalis Flee to Kenya in Search of Food, Water, Aid
A United Nations donors conference set for Wednesday in Nairobi will try to raise as much as $1 billion in aid for the food crisis plaguing the Horn of Africa. Independent Television News' Marin Geissler reports from Kenya where hundred of thousands of refugees have fled from Somalia in search of fo
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July 22, 2011 - 
National Public Radio
Somalis Stream Into Kenya, Fleeing Famine
The crippling drought in the Horn of Africa has affected about 11 million people in a region straddling Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. But it's Somalia that has been hit hardest.
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July 22, 2011 - 
Time Magazine Blogs
Famine in Somalia: When Does the World Decide to Use the ‘F' Word?
The word ‘famine' may be a familiar one, but it is not thrown around lightly by the people who decide when there is one. The fact that most of us today probably associate the term with the 1984 crisis in Ethiopia is testament to its exceedingly careful dispensation; to use it too often would dilute
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