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The United States has announced an extra $58 million in aid for Horn of Africa countries, lamenting the region’s “fragile” situation with over nine million people in need.

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said more than two million Somalis still need urgent assistance despite the end of a famine earlier this year, while the region faces crises fuelled by conflict, floods or drought.

“The United States continues to be concerned by the crisis in the Horn of Africa,” she said, adding: “The overall humanitarian situation in the region remains fragile; more than nine million people in the Horn need assistance”.

In 2011, famine in Somalia caused the deaths of tens of thousands of people and affected more than four million people, or more than half of the population, according to UN figures.

Washington is “proud” to be the largest humanitarian donor to the region, having given over $1.3 billion since 2011 in emergency aid for Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia, and Djibouti, Clinton said in a statement.

The US “is also fighting chronic food insecurity by helping vulnerable communities diversify and adapt their livelihoods, improve smallholder agricultural and other efforts so they can become more resilient,” she said.

“We will keep working with our partners and targeting those most in need until every man, woman and child has the chance to live healthy lives and realize their potential,” added Clinton.

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Thu Jun 20 12:17:59 SAST 2013 ::

Oct 23, 2012

ILLUMINATED

In the first place America is behind the atrocities in Somalia and the rest of the countries. Besides the famine (poverty) causing deaths in Somalia, how many people have died as a result of US military action especially its DRONE WAR in Somalia? Who's fooling who?

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/02/world/africa/02somalia.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

@Pointman

You always blame God for the suffering caused by the Americans. Their blood money will never change the fact that they are quilty and responsible for poverty and deaths of innocent people.

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Oct 24, 2012

DNAambassador

here here my friend, nothing happens in this world without the CIA and Mossad involvement. US is also involved in SA and what better proof than from a credible SA source

http://www.google.co.za/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=M%26G+Gilder&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&ved=0CC8QFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmg.co.za%2Fauthor%2Fandy-gilder&ei=uayHUMnfAsKwhAfx5oDYCg&usg=AFQjCNH_Q_255VH1xi1wKuVldeZLRrY1bg
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