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metronews.ca WEDNESDAY, JULY 27, 2011
Milk. Protest
A South Korean dairy farmer shouts slogans after pouring milk over his head during a rally demanding an increase in milk prices near the National Assembly in Seoul yesterday. AHN YOUNG-JOON/AP PHOTO
Diary farmers rally against FTA
Thousands of dairy farmers in South Korea opposed the signing of a free trade agreement with various countries, including the European Union and the U.S.
Somalia’s famine victims fight for life United Nations estimates 11 million people in East Africa affected by drought 3.7 million in Somalia among worst hit because of country’s ongoing civil war Seven-month-old Mihag Gedi Farah is the frail face of Somalia’s famine. He stares out wide-eyed almost in alarm, his skin pulled taut over his ribs and twig-like arms. At only 3.2 kilograms, he weighs as much as a newborn but has the weathered look of an elderly man. Mihag is just one of 800,000 children who officials warn could die across the Africa. Aid workers are rushing to bring help to dangerous and previously unreached regions of
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Mihag Gedi Farah
drought-ravaged Somalia. Famine victims like Mihag bring new urgency to their efforts, raising con-
cerns about how many hungry children still remain in Somalia, far away from doctors in the field hospital at this Kenyan refugee camp. Somalia’s prolonged drought became a famine in part because neither the Somali government nor many aid agencies can fully operate in areas controlled by al-Qaida-linked militants, and the UN is set to declare all of southern Somalia a famine zone as of Aug. 1. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
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