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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Via AP news wire

U.N. food agency to suspend food aid for 750,000 people in Somalia next month

Somalia Hunger - (Copyright 2017 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The U.N. food agency announced on Friday that it is cutting food assistance for hundreds of thousands of people in Somalia, where millions are facing devastating effects of climate change and acute levels of hunger.

The World Food Program said the number of people receiving emergency food assistance in the country will decrease from 1.1 million in August to 350,000 in November due to “critical funding shortfalls.”

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