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Six million Somalis -- 40 percent of the population -- are facing extreme levels of food insecurity and there is "a very real risk of famine in the coming months" if current conditions prevail, the UN humanitarian response agency OCHA said last week.
Another 6.5 million people in Ethiopia are "acutely food insecure", it said, as well as 3.5 million in Kenya.
