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As hunger bites in Somalia, babies start to die

Amina Hassan Aden sits with her children inside their makeshift shelter at the Kaxareey camp for the internally displaced people in Dollow, Gedo region of Somalia. [Reuters]

Hacked-off thorn branches encircle two mounds of earth heaped over the tiny bodies of Halima Hassan Abdullahi's twin granddaughters. Babies Ebla and Abdia lived only a day.

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