Famine In Somalia -- News Updates August 15, 2011





Terror Group Blocking Aid To Starving Somalis -- USA Today



The starvation of tens of thousands of people in Somalia — including 29,000 children — is being worsened by Islamist jihadists who are creating a catastrophe by blocking aid groups from getting food and and water to the suffering, according to interviews with aid groups, diplomats and experts.



The worst drought in decades is affecting several countries in the Horn of Africa, but the famine is worst in southern Somalia, where al-Shabaab, an Islamist terrorist organization with links to al-Qaeda, is preventing aid groups from helping nearly 3 million people living under its control, according to the State Department and aid groups.



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