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Rising food prices pushing east Africa to disaster, warns Oxfam
Xan Rice, The Guardian, July 24, 2008
NAIROBI, Kenya - More than 14 million people in the east Africa region require urgent food aid due to drought and spiralling cereal and fuel prices, aid agencies say.
In an emergency appeal launched today, Oxfam warns that millions of people in Ethiopia, Somalia, Uganda, Djibouti and Kenya are fast being pushed "towards severe hunger and destitution".
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