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                    [Title] => NGOs call for $5.5-B to save 34 million from famine
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                    [Title] => Starvation leaves Yemeni boy Ghazi too weak to cry
                    [Summary] => Skin and bones, 10-year-old Ghazi Saleh lies on a hospital bed in Yemen's government-held third city Taez barely breathing. He weighs just eight kilograms (less than 18 pounds).
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                    [Title] => Many Somali famine victims afraid to return home
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Lush patches of green dot this once-barren land, allowing goats and camels to graze. A nearby field is full of large, purple onions thanks to a UN-funded project.

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The number of famine zones in Somalia has been cut in half, as U.S. and U.N. food agencies said aid had reduced death rates. That good news was tempered by warnings that a quarter million Somalis face imminent starvation, and that military battles are preventing food deliveries.

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  The U.N. is reporting some positive developments in the fight against Somalia's famine.

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 The United Nations says famine has spread into one more region of Somalia, meaning half of the country's south is now suffering from famine.

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Somali government troops opened fire Friday on hungry civilians, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for food at a U.N. distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said.

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Kaltum Mohamed sits beside a small mound of earth, alone with her thoughts. It is her child's grave — and there are three others like it.

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 A U.S. official says the famine in Somalia has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5.

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 The United Nations says famine has spread into one more region of Somalia, meaning half of the country's south is now suffering from famine.

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Somali government troops opened fire Friday on hungry civilians, killing at least seven people, as both groups made a grab for food at a U.N. distribution site in the capital of this famine-stricken country, witnesses said.

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 A U.S. official says the famine in Somalia has killed more than 29,000 children under the age of 5.

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