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From: Biniam Tekle (biniamt@dehai.org)
Date: Tue Jul 05 2011 - 07:57:40 EDT
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UN: Somali refugee crisis is killing children
(AP) – 43 minutes ago
GENEVA (AP) — The United Nations says many Somali children are arriving at
refugee camps in neighboring Kenya and Ethiopia in such weak shape that they
are dying within 24 hours despite emergency care and feeding.
A spokeswoman for the U.N. refugee agency says an unknown number of children
under the age of five are dying from hunger and exhaustion as their families
flee violence compounded by drought in Somalia.
Melissa Fleming said Tuesday that more than 135,000 Somalis have fled so far
this year — including 54,000 in June, three times as many as in May.
She told reporters in Geneva that many of those are children who don't
survive the exhausting journey, or who die even after they reach the camps
because they arrive so hungry and frail.
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