The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Somalia said the ongoing conflict in Somalia had made it extremely difficult for agencies to access communities in the south, which are controlled by al-Shabab. The deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Donald Steinberg, said the aid must not benefit al-Shabab. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. "If we don't act now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious disease outbreaks," said the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden. Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily. One woman he met arrived after a long trip, much of it on foot, carrying her one-and-a-half-year-old son on her back - only to realise, when she arrived, that he was dead. In Somalia's war-ravaged capital, Mogadishu, the BBC's Mohamed Mwalimu says more than 4,000 people are crammed into one camp, called Safety. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington would provide an extra $28m in emergency aid to counter the famine.44554 6463 10744 7862 42501 15550 25757 30991 36499 26132 28511 22056 21486 21136 2004 4850 33306 31352 7679 1201 4117 44881 35791 15037 174 14718 47198 30620 24811 34236 13429 2205 36327 31470 2983 32471 27899 30156 18475 21924 16697 38245 28518 2481 4596 11372 33652 41796 958 29192 40742 22700 24398 27081 16090 49672 20732 45747 7699 27837 18388 45124 6169 2339 12703 26348 35675 39974 18184 19590 26932 3170 12922 35812 34556 15841 16403 33351 10389 38735 31085 5430 29694 45602 43476 40773 27782 9257 15422 3311 11744 32151 22500 40566 3564 21557 32096 26226 39740 28233 25713 43626 23700 31430 2282 37528 9733 38542 42541 260 33309 37316 35359 18998 46792 12924 15490 10570 8829 21959 48576 26411 24625 14850 7758 44793 30732 22385 32266 13009 33761 40130 43581 32176 13063 37401 31748 48259 43346 5889 31056 39164 16724 15174 20052 24411 46830 3532 43794 40622 6044 21524 17445 17908 29679 49294 19083 8833 23680 7419 6824 37346 6295 29567 16555 43153 43771 3162 5852 9332 31195 17240 17284 2954 40864 9363 9744 9466 44834 33369 47964 27189 28533 41640 6916 12211 22804 25733 2525 13787 18487 22962 24639 35911 49043 43663 32895 37095 48616 26814 30634 43656 47656 34486 9429 38832 4275 14476 26957 20358 39534 9534 14028 40279 9456 29675 8832 14719 22661 4310 20460 18108 662 42082 40914 8278 42553 31346 3915 47218 26476 22658 10860 18066 2736 4342 29550 44078 32193 18142 7958 8293 48768 32221 24237 8880 8895 34351 26428 19438
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The UN Office for the Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs for Somalia said the ongoing conflict in Somalia had made it extremely difficult for agencies to access communities in the south, which are controlled by al-Shabab. The deputy administrator of the US Agency for International Development, Donald Steinberg, said the aid must not benefit al-Shabab. The UN has declared a famine in two areas of southern Somalia as the region experiences the worst drought in more than half a century. "If we don't act now, famine will spread to all eight regions of southern Somalia within two months, due to poor harvests and infectious disease outbreaks," said the UN humanitarian co-ordinator for Somalia, Mark Bowden. Those conditions include more than 30% of children being acutely malnourished, and four children out of every 10,000 dying daily. One woman he met arrived after a long trip, much of it on foot, carrying her one-and-a-half-year-old son on her back - only to realise, when she arrived, that he was dead. In Somalia's war-ravaged capital, Mogadishu, the BBC's Mohamed Mwalimu says more than 4,000 people are crammed into one camp, called Safety. US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that Washington would provide an extra $28m in emergency aid to counter the famine.44554 6463 10744 7862 42501 15550 25757 30991 36499 26132 28511 22056 21486 21136 2004 4850 33306 31352 7679 1201 4117 44881 35791 15037 174 14718 47198 30620 24811 34236 13429 2205 36327 31470 2983 32471 27899 30156 18475 21924 16697 38245 28518 2481 4596 11372 33652 41796 958 29192 40742 22700 24398 27081 16090 49672 20732 45747 7699 27837 18388 45124 6169 2339 12703 26348 35675 39974 18184 19590 26932 3170 12922 35812 34556 15841 16403 33351 10389 38735 31085 5430 29694 45602 43476 40773 27782 9257 15422 3311 11744 32151 22500 40566 3564 21557 32096 26226 39740 28233 25713 43626 23700 31430 2282 37528 9733 38542 42541 260 33309 37316 35359 18998 46792 12924 15490 10570 8829 21959 48576 26411 24625 14850 7758 44793 30732 22385 32266 13009 33761 40130 43581 32176 13063 37401 31748 48259 43346 5889 31056 39164 16724 15174 20052 24411 46830 3532 43794 40622 6044 21524 17445 17908 29679 49294 19083 8833 23680 7419 6824 37346 6295 29567 16555 43153 43771 3162 5852 9332 31195 17240 17284 2954 40864 9363 9744 9466 44834 33369 47964 27189 28533 41640 6916 12211 22804 25733 2525 13787 18487 22962 24639 35911 49043 43663 32895 37095 48616 26814 30634 43656 47656 34486 9429 38832 4275 14476 26957 20358 39534 9534 14028 40279 9456 29675 8832 14719 22661 4310 20460 18108 662 42082 40914 8278 42553 31346 3915 47218 26476 22658 10860 18066 2736 4342 29550 44078 32193 18142 7958 8293 48768 32221 24237 8880 8895 34351 26428 19438