Some 29, 000 Somali children have died from the famine in the past three months alone.
The WFP is the only organisation with the logistical muscle to end the famine quickly.
Estimates for the famine's death toll at the time varied from 220, 000 to 3.5 million.
Along with our international partners, we've saved countless lives from the famine in the Horn of Africa.
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Several women confirmed the group were making it very difficult for people to leave the famine zones.
Yesterday the United Nations issued a warning that the famine is spreading and the situation is getting worse.
Moreover, the famine was short and geographically restricted, meaning that a natural control group was available for comparison.
Women whose mothers were exposed to the famine early in their pregnancies were especially prone to later obesity.
Even ex-president Liu once said that the famine was probably 70% man-made and 30% the result of natural causes.
Part of it passed over Japan, which responded angrily by suspending food and other aid for the famine-stricken nation.
Yunus spent time with farmers, manual laborers, and village residents to learn the real root causes of the famine.
If the famine lasts until the next rains, that means 100, 000-200, 000 could be at risk there: a dreadful toll.
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As a result, the famine raced from the countryside into the cities, and a reckoning still awaits those responsible.
And right now, the UN is committed to helping the people suffering from the famine in the Horn of Africa.
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And it has largely recentralised the distribution of food and other essentials, after the system broke down during the famine.
The famine is worst in Bahr el Ghazal, an area populated by peasant farmers who put their wealth in cattle.
The Commons also heard the famine was down to political failings in the affected areas, as well as failure of crops.
He starts with the 3.3m in Soviet Ukraine who died in the famine of 1933 that followed Stalin's ruthlessly destructive collectivisation.
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In her acceptance speech, she appealed to the audience to "turn their hearts, minds and resources" to the famine in Africa.
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Conservatives often called him naive, especially for his dismissal of the famine that killed perhaps 40m Chinese between 1959 and 1961.
The famine later spread to other areas, including Middle Shabelle, Afgoye, and at camps for displaced people in the government-controlled capital, Mogadishu.
Still, the response to the famine has not been a failure everywhere.
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Mr Cameron should have apologised for the famine says Madhusree Mukherjee, who has written a widely praised history of the Bengali famine.
By local standards, it is a relatively safe area - and as such a magnet for tens of thousands of families fleeing the famine.
Some 50 pages are devoted to a series of articles written in 1939, "The Misery of Kabylia, " detailing life in the famine-stricken northern region.
By the mid-1990s the famine was so severe that more than a million people are thought to have died from malnutrition and related illness.
The first inkling that the famine had had a long-term effect on children in the womb came in 1996, with a study of schizophrenia.
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