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Rains Fall on Somalia, Easing Threat of Famine

source: Planet Ark | May 12, 06 | submitted by Ryan

Somalia - The start of the rainy season in Somalia in late April may have averted a moderate famine in the poverty-stricken and chaotic northeastern African nation, a UN office said on Wednesday.

"Good and generally well distributed rains" began falling over southern and northern Somalia, easing the impact of a drought that has plagued all the Horn of Africa this year, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported.

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