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/ 12 November 2008
Somalia’s hard-line al-Shabaab group on Wednesday took over the southern port of Merka, a key entry point for food aid.
A deadly cocktail of calamities — including war, drought and rising prices — is engulfing the Horn of Africa, the UN Children’s Fund has warned.
France is providing support to Djibouti during border clashes with neighbouring Eritrea that the Djiboutian president has described as war.