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Two million children at risk of starvation in Horn of Africa - UN aid chief

Children sit on sacks as scavengers sort for recyclable plastic materials at the Dandora dumping site on the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya. [Reuters]

U.N. aid chief Martin Griffiths said on Tuesday that close to 2 million children are at risk of starving to death as the Horn of Africa faces one of its worst droughts in decades.

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