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U.N. Emergency Meeting Recognizes Need For Urgent Response To Horn Of Africa Drought
At an emergency meeting at the Rome headquarters of the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) on Monday, the agency announced "there will be a donors pledging conference Wednesday in Nairobi to raise as much as $1.6 billion to help fight famine in Somalia and other drought-stricken populations in East Africa," the Associated Press/Forbes reports (7/25). Prior to the meeting, the World Bank "announced it is providing more than $500 million to assist drought victims, in addition to $12 million in immediate assistance to help those worst hit by the crisis," a World Bank press release states (7/25).
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