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Tuesday, January 10, 2006 - 02:00
Categories: 
Conflict & emergencies [2]
Issue Number: 
237 [3]
Article-Summary: 

The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), Somalia, has run short of food after attempts to buy food from Kenya failed.According to the agency's Somalia deputy country director Leo van der Velden, they had planned to buy 2,000 metric tonne of food to feed one million starving Somalis.This has failed due to the famine in Kenya.

Category: 
Governance [4]
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http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category.php/conflict/31180 [5]
Country: 
Somalia [6]

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