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Somalia’s Security Crisis Hindering Famine Relief

The United Nation's declaration of a famine in two regions of southern Somalia has been accompanied by horrific reports of starvation and news of more than 100,000 internally displaced people flooding into Mogadishu.

Already bearing the burden of a 20-year-old civil war, the Somali capital now appears to be emerging as the epicenter of the famine's misery as well.

However, the exodus of starving Somalis may also have volatile regional ramifications, specifically in neighboring Ethiopia and Kenya, says Elizabeth G. Ferris, codirector of the Brookings-LSE Project on Internal Displacement in Washington.

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