In Lower Shabelle, 18% of children under five died and in Mogadishu 17%, the report said.

BBC: Somalia famine 'killed 260,000 people'

The UN first declared a famine in July 2011 in Somalia's Southern Bakool and Lower Shabelle regions.

BBC: Somalia famine 'killed 260,000 people'

On Sunday evening, the newly formed Cabinet met for the first time, in Djibouti, according to the Shabelle Media Network.

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Hassan Osman Abdi (29) was a journalist and director for Shabelle Media Network, a private radio and television network in Somalia.

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He fled his village of Bulamerer on the Shabelle river along with his heavily pregnant wife and one of their children.

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The famine later spread to other areas, including Middle Shabelle, Afgoye, and at camps for displaced people in the government-controlled capital, Mogadishu.

BBC: Somalia famine 'killed 260,000 people'

She's in charge of revenue collection for the Finance Ministry in the Lower Shabelle region, and had just driven from Mogadishu in her small white car with a couple of armed guards.

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Mohamed Mohamud Turyare, a 22-year-old journalist webmaster and producer for Shabelle Media Network, was shot several times in the chest and stomach as he left a mosque in Mogadishu on 21 October.

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Various witnesses told private Somali news outlets, including Shabelle Media Network and Garowe News, that at least two masked men shot Maalim in the southern district of Waberi in the Somali capital.

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