UN Says Nearly One-Third Of Somalia's Population Needs Aid

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Women and children fleeing the war in Somalia queue to register at Dadaab, the refugee camp in northern Kenya, 09 Sep 2010

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The World Health Organization reports about two million people in Somalia, or nearly one-third of the total population, are in need of humanitarian assistance.  That includes almost 1.5 million internally displaced people.

Somalia has been in a chronic state of emergency for almost 20 years.  It has had no effective central government since the country's last dictator, Siad Barre, was overthrown in a coup in 1991 
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