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U.N.'s Somalia Official Says 'Tens Of Thousands' Of Somalis Died From Malnutrition Over Last Year
Mark Bowden, the U.N.'s official in Somalia, on Sunday said "tens of thousands of people will have died over the last year" in the country's famine, adding that the rates of malnutrition are "amazingly high," BBC News reports. "He said a quarter of a million Somalis were still suffering from the famine," and he "said malnutrition rates have begun to drop but the crisis was likely to continue for the next six or seven months," the news service notes (1/15).
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