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  1. A Somali refugee carries his malnourished son at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photo: Reuters
  2. Newly arrived refugees queue outside a reception centre in the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Somali refugees fleeing a deadly mixture of drought and conflict at home said draconian conditions imposed by al Qaeda-affiliated Islamist militants ...
  3. An internally displaced Somali girl receives food in the Madina district south of capital Mogadishu. Photo: Reuters
  4. Newly arrived refugees gather outside a reception centre in the Ifo 2 refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Thousands of Somalis fleeing drought, famine and war have started moving into a new extension of the world's largest refugee camp in Kenya, which ...
  5. Fifteen year-old Habiba Isak, a newly arrived Somali refugee carries her 4-day old child, Muslima, at a reception centre in the Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Habiba Isak had barely recovered from trekking hundreds of kilometres to refug ...
  6. A Somali woman sits with her malnourished child at Banadir hospital in capital Mogadishu. Photo: Reuters
  7. An unidentified severely malnourished Somali refugee child cries inside a ward at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photo: Reuters
  8. An unidentified severely malnourished Somali refugee child rests inside a ward at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photo: Reuters
  9. Internally displaced Somali women and their children wait to register at the Al-Hidaya settlement in capital Mogadishu. Photo: Reuters
  10. Refugees walk past the carcass of a goat at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photo: Reuters
  11. Internally displaced Somali women and their children wait to register at the Al-Hidaya settlement in capital Mogadishu.
  12. A newly arrived Somali refugee is forced out of the queue outside a reception centre in the Ifo 2 refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Thousands of Somalis fleeing drought, famine and war have started moving into a new extension of the world's largest r ...
  13. An unidentified severely malnourished Somali refugee child rests inside a ward at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photo: Reuters
  14. An internally displaced Somali women and her children arrives in capital Mogadishu. Aid groups, which have been clamoring for money to help famine-stricken Somalia, are struggling to reach millions in the affected areas. Some 3.7 million Somalis risk starvation in two re ...
  15. Four days-old Muslima Isak, a newly arrived Somali refugee is seen at a reception centre in the Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Habiba Isak had barely recovered from trekking hundreds of kilometres to refuge in Kenya from drought-hit Baid ...
  16. An unidentified malnourished Somali refugee child sits inside a ward at the Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) hospital at the Dagahale refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photo: Reuters
  17. An internally displaced Somali boy waits for food in the Madina district south of capital Mogadishu. Photo: Reuters
  18. Four-year-old Said Nor, a malnourished child from southern Somalia sits in camp in Mogadishu Somalia. Heavy fighting erupted in Somalia's capital as African Union peacekeepers launched an offensive aimed at protecting famine relief efforts from attacks by al-Qaida-linked ...
  19. A newly arrived Somali refugee carries firewood using a donkey cart outside the Ifo 2 refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photo: Reuters
  20. A newly arrived refugee displays the ink on her fingers after being registered at the Ifo refugee camp in Dadaab, near the Kenya-Somalia border. Photo: Reuters

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Anonymous, wrote

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10:12am on 31 July 2011
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How do the public make finacial or any contributions?

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Anonymous, wrote

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04:00pm on 29 July 2011
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How about dropping off some contraceptives! They are starving because they receive food aid... so they have energy to breed and over populate the region. and cause the next humanitarian crisis.

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Anonymous, wrote

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03:13pm on 29 July 2011
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The crisis in Somalia brings tears to my eyes...it is just too heartbreaking seeing people especially children sufering so much. I couldn't even imagine watching my children dyin before my eyes because i have no food to give. I feel that people think they need to contribute thousands of rands to make a difference. It is not so....if we all take a few rands that we would have spent on something trivial, and contributed towards putting food and nourishment in these kids mouths, we could change the world...one small step at a time.

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11:37am on 29 July 2011
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i have nothing but i will try to do something by placing my little contribution, africans please let us stop creating wars on ourselfs and start thinking positively.

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11:34am on 29 July 2011
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i have nothing but i will try to do something by placing my little contribution, africans please let us stop creating wars on ourselfs and start thinking positively.

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Anonymous, wrote

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11:24am on 29 July 2011
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Another product of apartheid of hoe Malema?

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gef.o., wrote

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11:08am on 29 July 2011
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and by the way, I cannot find the story to it...

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gef.o., wrote

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11:06am on 29 July 2011
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The world seems to be full of lies. There again, it is now blamed on Al Qaeda, which, according to former sources does not exist, supposed to be an invention of the Americans. The name came from a computer program. At least this is what I have heared.

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Art, wrote

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11:05am on 29 July 2011
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So the rest of the world drops off food and medicine to save the day... but there's no long term or sustainable solution presented. The UN is about as helpful as a strepsil for a toothache.

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